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Have you met Edmund and Arden yet? Read their story in A Dance of Water and Air.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/a-dance-of-water-and-air.html

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-a prince who must make an alliance marriage-and absolutely cannot fall for the brother of the queen he has to marry -a false accusation and a desperate flight -elemental magic -found family -demisexual, bi, and trans main characters A Dance of Water and Air Antonia Aquilante

More from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-may-31-june-1

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Whipping Girl (Julia Serano) – Look, I've got a lot of catching up on non-fic, okay! This is a wonderfully comprehensive transsexual manifesto across transphobia, feminism & intersectionality, experiences of transition, gender theory, academic & medical gatekeeping, cross-dressing, cisexual privilege, fetishsation, media dehumanisation, and well shit pretty much everything that impacts upon the lives of trans femmes.

Serano is thorough, precise but impassioned in her augments and gives us here an excellent foundation stone for someone seeking to broaden their understanding of these issues. Even with the time that has passed since it has been published, with updates in the forward and afterwards, the issues remain fresh and pressing.

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Cover showing a pair of feet in women's heels, fishnets underneath. Included quote is "Foundational - NPR". Note at the bottom says updated with a new afterward.

Nectar & Succulent (Tab Kimpton et al) – I've been meaning to grab some of these for a while and finally grabbed two of them at a queer book fair. They're anthologies of short trans and trans-inclusive erotic comics. This host of explicit encounters is packed with a lot of fantasy but also some contemporary stories too which are really cute. All are full of queer joy and body positivity which can really make them as heart warming as they are hot. For these and a bunch more anthologies, check out the store on discordcomics.com to find them.
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Two book covers. Art on Succulent showing a woman pinned to the ground by another woman with pink hair. The second, Necatr, shows two women, one pouring nectar on her chest while a second licks it and reaches for a bowl of peaches.

Another late share of this week’s Rainbow Snippet, which is more from A Dance of Water and Air.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-may-24-25

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Foglifter Press, a literary organization which supports emerging queer/trans writers, just had its grant from the NEA terminated. This is the US govt suppressing queer/trans voices. Foglifter is launching a fund to keep the work alive. Please donate/share.

https://www.paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/2889812

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More from A Dance of Water and Air for my latest Rainbow Snippet (which I forgot to share over the weekend…oops).

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-may-17-18

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More from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-may-10-11

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48th read of 2025:

Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration by Theo Parish

A lovely gender journey about discovering yourself and making a home in your body. Parish's metaphor extends to everyone.

It's hopeful and eager, like a warm cup of tea; the art is delightful.

4/5 stars

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Book cover for Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration by Theo Parish

The illustrated cover features a nonbinary person lying down on the pitched roof of a house with their foot resting against the chimney to stop them from sliding down. The art is done in a purple monochromatic wash.

More from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet.

http://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-may-3-4

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45th read of 2025:

Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

I support trans rights as much as I support trans wrongs. But as the late great James Baldwin said about white queer people, we need to stop making our anger about how queer people are treated in society because we missed out on privilege.

2/5 stars

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Book cover for Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

Cover is a sliced black and white photo of a young white man in black clothes

44th read of 2025:

Pretty: A Memoir by KB Brookins

This was lovely and lyrical, more of a manifesto on masculinity, femininity, gender, Blackness, Southerness, and family, mixed with the author's life. They sprinkle in poetry, too, which made the audiobook all the more powerful.

4/5 stars

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Book cover for Pretty: A Memoir by KB Brookins

An illustrated cover featuring a portrait of the author, a nonbinary Black person, who is shirtless with eyes closed. They have hair that's tied back and short-cropped beard, plus septum ring. They have tattoos of flowers on their chest and a tattoo of a bird on their left shoulder flies up into three movements of new birds going into the yellow background.

Edit: You're too late now 😧

FYI, an ebook of 'Trans Femme Futures
Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds' is currently free right now.

"Trans Femme Futures envisions the future through everyday actions that revolutionise our lives. Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift discuss struggles around trans healthcare, the need for collectives over institutions, the importance of mutual care, and transfeminism as abolition."

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349411/trans-femme-futures/

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Every day is a good day to read a trans author.

Front cover--white background, in center a butterfly that's half pink and half blue
Trans Figured: On Being A Transgender Person in a Cisgender World by Sophie Grace Chappell

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More from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet.

https://www.antoniaaquilante.com/blog/rainbow-snippets-april-12-13

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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (Kristen Schilt, 2010) – This is some fascinating research on the experiences of trans men (stealth and open) in the workplace, covering aspects of discrimination, transphobia and masculine societal norms. While a lot of it is well known to anyone experiencing it, the broad academic work here is very useful and can certainly open your eyes to things that you may take for granted or haven't had firsthand.

Much of the work is broadly intersectional, taking into account the varying experiences, such as the impact on race on workforce dynamics. It also contrasted some very different experiences of trans women and how those can reflect on societal attitudes around gender.

I was noting a lot of sections of this book, but I do have to just include below a few of my favourite lines concerning the leveraging of masculinity and homophobia against other men in order to deflect potential transphobia;

> Robert has grown comfortable using a urinary device at urinals in public restrooms: "Men are not going to look down at my crotch because this society is homophobic." [...] Homophobia is a powerful social control mechanism, particularly in intimate, all-male spaces such as the bathroom or locker room.

> Johnny goes further, saying he would call someone "gay" if they questioned him or looked at him too long in the bathroom. "It would shut him up pretty quickly because no guy wants to be questioned about their sexuality, especially in the males' restroom."

> When men asked Peter about his chest scars, he said they were intentional scarification—a subcultural form of body marking. He notes, "They thought it was cool and hard-core." These responses fit with idealized masculinity: stoically dismissing pain.

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