AD: What is the best fan story you can share since your book has been published? Bathrooms and sex are easy for cis people to think about, or at least thrilling enough to warrant cis attention, but if you want to understand our more abstract challenges, you have to listen to us. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Meredith Russo spoke with me recently about her inspiration and experience since publishing “If I Was Your Girl” in 2016. Artists have as much responsibility to our communities as engineers and doctors, I think, at least in our way, and we ignore that at our own peril and the peril of those who consume our media. Religion is just a thing, a tool or a vehicle for art or a form of specialized therapy or a hinge around which communities easily organize themselves, and the extent to which it is good or bad, healthy or toxic, uplifting or oppressive, is more a reflection of the flock than the holy text. The Unusual Connections Between JPEGMAFIA and Kate Bush. I think “Beast” by Brie Spangler is a lovely book, and I have it on good authority that Emery Lord is working on a book with a trans character, though that’s all I’ll say. I got scared and called 911. MR: I was raised an atheist, actually. Do you feel that this is a natural niche for the rest of your writing, or do you struggle with this being a box that you’ve been forced into for the sake of marketability? What else do you wish this conversation could include, and how do you think we should go about shifting and expanding this debate? Find more trans authors than just me. A viral tweet thread from critically acclaimed trans author Meredith Stroud about abuse may be a case of projection. An online biography states: “MEREDITH RUSSO was born, raised, and lives in Tennessee. There’s an important detail to Amanda’s story, however, that elevates Russo’s narrative into a timely piece of literature beyond the typical young adult story—Amanda Hardy is transgendered. People are unruly, chaotic and stubborn, and it seems to me more likely that they’ll do what they feel like and justify it with whatever ideology is on hand, than that they would allow themselves to be twisted into an uncomfortable shape. [Meredith] took the phone from me, and was heard trying to prevent me from calling for help.” Is a Christian faith part of your personal dialogue as well, and if so, how do you connect/find your place in the modern church? MR: I’ve never had much respect for boxes, so even if the industry does try and hem me in, I doubt I’ll even notice. I spent most of my youth actively hostile to religion, specifically Christianity, because, as a young queer person, I understood them as the forces most responsible for my pain and oppression.eval(ez_write_tag([[728,90],'studybreaks_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_3',112,'0','0'])); Growing older, though, and meeting good Christians of every stripe, taking my son to temple and watching what has happened to Muslim communities because people uncritically accepted a faith as evil, I’ve come to a more nuanced view of it. The best way to expand the debate, and I hope this doesn’t seem sarcastic, is to do a better job of listening to trans people. MEREDITH RUSSO lives in Brooklyn with her cat Shadow and probably more books than is responsible for a New York apartment. It isn’t a coincidence that the specific restrictions placed on us, or what’s planned anyway, just happen to make it incredibly difficult to obtain medical care (it’s a joke in the trans community that doctors will blame broken arms on our hormones, and I and many trans people I know have been turned away by transphobic doctors), to access courthouses and libraries, to pursue an education, and to travel anywhere we can’t easily reach by car. When she isn't upsetting Yankees by smiling and making eye contact on the 3 train she spends her time lifting weights, playing fighting games, blowing up the mic at karaoke, glancing anxiously at her TBR pile, and, of course, working on her next book. All the same, I do think of myself as an entertainer/storyteller first and an activist second. Meredith Russo spoke with me recently about her inspiration and experience since publishing “If I Was Your Girl” in 2016. I can’t say much more, obviously, but the idea that a young trans person is alive and got help because of something I did is worth more than any royalty or award. AD: One of the most intriguing scenes in “If I Was Your Girl” occurs when Amanda attends church with one of her friends. 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