Transgender Archives - Sacha Black https://sachablack.co.uk/tag/transgender-2/ Books, Business and Bad Words Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:34:17 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://sachablack.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-logo-solo-colour-copy-scaled-1-32x32.jpg Transgender Archives - Sacha Black https://sachablack.co.uk/tag/transgender-2/ 32 32 238 How to Write Trans Characters with Dharma Kelleher https://sachablack.co.uk/2024/04/17/238-how-to-write-trans-characters-with-dharma-kelleher/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=238-how-to-write-trans-characters-with-dharma-kelleher https://sachablack.co.uk/2024/04/17/238-how-to-write-trans-characters-with-dharma-kelleher/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:00:41 +0000 https://sachablack.co.uk/?p=12292 Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 238 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Dharma Kelleher all about how to write trans characters. In this episode we cover:  The importance of representation in our books Writing trans and queer characters when cisgendered Harmful tropes and stereotypes to avoid Working with a sensitivity reader Balancing […]

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]]> Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 238 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Dharma Kelleher all about how to write trans characters.

In this episode we cover: 

  • The importance of representation in our books
  • Writing trans and queer characters when cisgendered
  • Harmful tropes and stereotypes to avoid
  • Working with a sensitivity reader
  • Balancing educating readers and creating an engaging story

Find out more about Dharma:

Author Website

Facebook

Threads

Instagram

TikTok

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Rebel of the Week is: Mélanie 

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]]> https://sachablack.co.uk/2024/04/17/238-how-to-write-trans-characters-with-dharma-kelleher/feed/ 0 037 How to Build Universes and Write Transgender Characters https://sachablack.co.uk/2020/06/24/037-how-to-build-universes-and-write-transgender-characters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=037-how-to-build-universes-and-write-transgender-characters https://sachablack.co.uk/2020/06/24/037-how-to-build-universes-and-write-transgender-characters/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:00:21 +0000 https://sachablack.co.uk/?p=9383 Hello Rebels, welcome back to The Rebel Author Podcast episode 37. I’m talking to Malorie Cooper about how to build universes and write transgender characters.

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]]> Hello Rebels, welcome back to The Rebel Author Podcast episode 37. I’m talking to Malorie Cooper about how to build universes and write transgender characters. This week is a mixed topic, so I’ve put the timestamps for the start of each topic in the show notes.

Timestamps:

  • Transgender characters: 20.22
  • Universe and world building 49.40

Episode Show Notes

This week’s questions is:

Do you write series or standalone and why?

Book recommendation this week is The Necromancer’s Apprentice by Icy Sedgwick, purchase a copy here.

Find out more about our guest Mal Cooper on her website aeon14.com. 

Find her on Facebook where she posts nearly daily cosplay/fashion pics.

Link to the YouTube video where she talks about what makes boys and girls.

 

Link to National Geographic article mentioned on gender.

Don’t forget The Anatomy of Prose is now live, you can get it in ebook, paperback or hardback now.

Click the link here.

Order the Workbook here. 

Listener Rebel of the Week is Aime Sund

If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or tweet me @rebelauthorpod

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This episode was sponsored by Kobo Writing Life

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