Side Affects : On Being Trans and Feeling Bad demi-sexual Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

about love - yearning

ancient retainers

known only as "El Flaco

Side Affects : On Being Trans and Feeling Bad demi-sexual Tales from the Shadowhunter AcademyHow the bad feelings of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing. Some daysor weeks, or months, or even yearsbeing trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects ,