✨Elle Grenier ✨🇵🇸
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YA Author. Mellow Dramatic. French Canadian. The world’s top Cats (2019) enthusiast. || Any pronouns | Rep: @allielevick
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I am THRILLED to announce I’m now represented by the amazing
@AllieLevick
(who made this graphic) and Writers House!
I’m so excited to work with someone who really shares my vision for my cheery book about an overdramatic teen trans girl who just really wants to be Elle Woods 😻
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GLASS ONION has me 100% sold on as many Benoit Blanc movies as they want to make. Watching these just feels like reading Hercule Poirot mysteries as a kid
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Consideration: Cinderella is a trans girl who’s neglected and ignored by her step-family.
Runs from the prince bc she’s scared he’ll lose interest if she’s in boymode.
“We have no other daughters”
Shoe only fits her bc foot is bigger than most
And the prince doesn’t care.
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It’s one thing to say “nonbinary people don’t owe you androgyny” and another to acknowledge, grapple with, and dismantle the fact that our idea of androgyny is primarily accessible to very specific people/bodies (and we should be doing much more of the latter)
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So much for their public decrying of Joanne earlier, huh?
Not sure who needs to hear this (besides everyone in this project) but “allyship until personally inconvenient” isn’t, in fact, allyship
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other cast members from all the
#HarryPotter
films for an HBO Max special to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise’s first film, which premiered 20 years ago today.
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Cw: Harry Potter, Joanne
The thing with the people saying “oh but Harry Potter was so important to me I can’t let go of it” is that most of them will never begin to understand how it feels to have your childhood hero campaign against your basic rights and existence
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Side effects of feminizing HRT nobody warns you about:
- Shifts in temperature perception
- Night vision
- A sudden craving for human flesh
- Wait why are my teeth hurting holy shit are those fangs
- Melding into the night itself, watching strangers passing by, unfelt, unseen
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Trans folk deserve registries when coming out. Just an entire catalogue of “these are gendered items I haven’t had access to and feel would help” for their loved ones to pick from to celebrate/show support
Gathering everything the average trans person finds helpful is PRICY.
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We will queer one Gen Z adult a day until our demands are met.
Why is this written like a threat
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Folks saying “obviously I don’t support J. K. Rowling” without in any way evaluating or adjusting their relationship with Harry Potter:
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The downside to Queer Eye Season 6 having an episode about a lesbian trans woman power lifter is that it’s been five minutes and I’m already deeply in love with her
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I don’t think most cis folk realize how much of medical transition is just...waiting.
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I wish people were as familiar with the history of queer art as they were with the history of queer suffering
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I wish it was more normalized to just...not have an answer as far as gender and sexuality go.
It’s okay to explore not knowing what you’ll find.
It’s okay to think you know and realize you don’t.
It’s okay to never have or give a firm answer.
It’s okay. YOU’RE okay.
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Trans folk don’t often tend to join twitter so we can become activists.
What actually happens is that after enough days of seeing people wander around debating whether or not we deserve to exist, we say “I’m here and I do” and that’s enough to leave us flooded with trolls.
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Fun fact: in order to get the COVID vaccine, you have to spend a year living at risk of the pandemic and have two letters from therapists confirming that: a) you know what’s involved, b) you really need the vaccine, and c) you’re mentally equipped to decide you need the vaccine
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@MockWooloo
@alyssakeiko
Which shows you absolutely don’t need to use their deadname to make the message come across
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Like just to be clear: Hannah Arendt is a famous Jewish scholar who wrote this while fleeing the Nazism.
Joanne is trying to insinuate that trans rights and mass genocide are akin and comparable.
Do I really need to state why that’s a problem?
“...if a patent forgery… is believed by so many people, the task of the historian is no longer to discover a forgery. The forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the circumstance that it is a forgery.”
Hannah Arendt, the Origins of Totalitarianism
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“Kamala Harris is being critiqued much more aggressively than she would be were it not for misogynoir” and “Kamala Harris is a cop with a deeply transphobic record” are two sentiments that can and should coexist tbh.
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Things trans women apparently have a biological advantage in:
- sports
- beauty pageants
- trivia
- acting
Is there anything we apparently AREN’T naturally superior in according to these folks??? Starting to feel a bit like a compliment
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So at the job interview I just had the fact that I had cats happened to come up. The interview responded by asking:
“So you’re a cat girl, then?”
...when I say I choked on my coffee
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Also for everyone who’s been really into mansplaining fairy tales to me yes I KNOW her feet are originally tiny congratulations
Pretty sure she also wasn’t originally written as trans. It’s called artistic liberties, Lana.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but between the state of publishing and the state of trans rights at the moment, writing even one sentence as a trans author is a show of strength and resilience you deserve to feel proud of
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Trans folk: yeah I mean The Matrix is a trans allegory and spoke to a lot of us growing up
Internet nerdbros: actually I think we ALL related to the Matrix growing up ✌🏻😎✌🏻
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Not only are kids old enough to express their gender/orientation much earlier than they’re given credit for, I can guarantee they’re already old enough to be internalizing the queerphobia they see
THAT’S why representation matters, especially in kidlit and YA.
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@Ranting_Trans
“I promise i can insult myself in fifteen more creative and efficient ways than you can” is a power move, honestly
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Androgyny as a concept is largely rooted in whiteness, in thinness, in a Peter Pan kind of eternal boyishness separate from capital-m Masculinity (amongst other things) and each of those is both arbitrarily valued and also largely exclusive. That needs be part of the conversation
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The “we were all so wrong to dogpile this trans woman” to “don’t dogpile the people who dogpiled this trans woman, have you learned nothing????” to “oh look another trans woman stepped out of line, let’s go dogpile her” pipeline
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@NightlingBug
The irony of “welcome to womanhood” being synonymous with “welcome to being oppressed” from cis white women will never not be mind-boggling
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@nonbin_eri
Also like it doesn’t sound like he’s saying she can’t, just that she should strongly consider waiting it out
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*adds this to the list of trans fairy tale retellings I have to write*
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Every Paldea gym leader is LGBTQ+ and I’m about to tell you exactly what flavour in astonishing detail, 🧵
(This was an excellent use of my break, I’m sure)
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Look if I could process that the person I most wanted to be like as a kid wishes I didn’t exist while being dogpiled for two consecutive days as the direct result of her going mask off, I’m sure you could move on in two years if you really cared to
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I’m calling it right now: teleportation will be invented by a lesbian who’s getting frustrated by long distance.
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Imagine if TERFs realized the average transfem person is actually *more* wary of men than they are?
Like...that experience you have that made you fear them? We heard them brag about it. We saw them get congratulated for it. We know and have seen more than you ever will.
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What common trope/premise do you want to never see again and why?
(Mine is the “mysterious illness/magic that only affects one gender.” I’ve never seen it done in a way that wasn’t tediously reductive, and even if it was done well I’m not sure how much payoff there could be?)
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Also like…trans folks have been processing plenty of much bigger things this week than this nonsense so maybe don’t offload all your baggage onto them*
*or ever, really, but especially not this week
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The odds of fantasy universes having concepts of gender and sexuality that match ours are incredibly low and unquestioningly recreating cis/hetero/patriarchy is deeply uncreative
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Oh this last paragraph goes HARD
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible
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“Why did you transition if you’re non-binary anyway?”
Look. Being read as a man was like wearing a lead coat for me. Being read as a woman is like a scratchy one. The ladder is much better even if it doesn’t beat a cozy coat.
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There’s something so insidious about the way many queer folk end up with their youths stolen from them because they’re made to hide from the world
What damage is caused by missing those early formative experiences? Or by carrying the weight of that knowledge around with them?
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Yes, I’m trans. Yes, I wear leggings as pants. We exist.
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Nonbinary in the way that you can refer to me both using the gay “she” and the sapphic “bro”
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Okay but is there a word for a nonbinary MILF/DILF who doesn’t use mom/dad???? This is very very important*
*i need a commonly agreed upon answer in place to prepare for my future
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New trans pickup line:
“My preferred pronoun is ‘Yours’.”
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Furthermore; androgyny defined as some kind of “lack” of visible Gender requires embodiment that doesn’t have any other “meaning” written onto it (I.e race, age, fatness, puberty, etc). It likely can’t be rewritten in a way that makes room for any of those factors
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Many of us deal with beard shadows and shaving on a daily basis, spend more than we can afford on painful and lengthy hair removal - if we can access it at all.
Girls shave too, some of us are trans, others are cis.
All of us are beautiful.
#TransIsBeautiful
#GirlsShaveToo
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Not to derail the conversation but every time we have the conversation about m/f couples and biphobia in publishing it just reminds me how much of this is fuelled by people whose understanding of queerness sits at like…10% at most
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I’m in constant awe of people who just *know* their gender. Like idk man I’m just riding some kind of wave right now it’s a time
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She was a boy
He was a girl
Gender is not the same as pronouns
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Simon & Schuster publishing some grifter memoir by Oli London of all people about how his detransition story calls to question the “gender ideology movement” sure does feel emblematic of the state of publishing right now
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I love watching cishet men call me a monster as though I didn’t write my senior thesis on the way monstrosity is used against queer folk and the best ways to reclaim that
Anyway tag yourself as a monster I’m The Babadook
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Concept: places where everyone dresses like a club but you don’t have to go clubbing
Like a quiet indie library/coffee shop hybrid but everyone is wearing fishnets and crop tops and glittery Euphoria-style makeup while they sit and read a book
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FYI cis women: if you’re out clubbing and see transfem people, I promise you you don’t have to grab their ass as you pass by so they know how special they are ✌🏻
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Rolaskatox: "It'll look really bad if you make it because of friends."
Rolaskatox: *survives because of an alliance*
#TeamKatya
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Honouring Queen Elizabeth II by sharing my favourite meme in her memory
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It also makes me want to write my own murder mystery asap but that’s a whole different problem
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Yes I’m ace. Yes I’m having a hot girl summer. I’m aesthetically slutty I just don’t practice.
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Shoutout to the person who came up to me for help at work today and just opened with “you look like you know good gay books”
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That’s not to say it as a mode is bad—but what would it mean to consider an additional, complementary mode? Maybe a type of overflow rather than lack/to have so many signifiers that they feed into each other, muddling and enriching one’s gendered embodiment as a result??
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Ma’am catgirls are a protected category I legally cannot disclose that in this interview
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I think something cis folk don’t necessarily understand it’s that it’s not always about when we *knew* we were trans.
I’ve known I was a girl for a long time. I figured out I was a trans girl years ago.
What I didn’t know (or what I didn’t believe) is that I COULD be one.
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I have a lot of thoughts about mentioning a trans character’s deadname in a book but one of the places it boils down to is I hope we can all understand that any guideline developed is to show cis authors how to be respectful and not to berate people writing their own experiences
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Also it’s a totally elective cosmetic procedure so your insurance probably won’t cover it, sorry
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This is why I really don’t trust public statements as having any significance. If you aren’t taking the hits (metaphorically or physically), I’m not believing a word until your record shows otherwise.
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People had to dress formally at my old job. Closeted me hated the idea of wearing a suit, so I wore women’s blazers for months before coming out. When asked, I’d say they were less expensive.
That’s how I accidentally started a trend of cis men wearing women’s blazers at work.
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(Note: when I said “an additional, complementary mode” I should have said “a multiplicity of them”. It’s impossible to set one or two modes in a world with so many varying cultural contexts and ideas of gender)
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The fact that this was her last tweet broke me
2021 wanted one last punch, huh?
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Also if any trans folk (especially TPOC) want to plug their crowdfunding hmu
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Someone please write a dark comedy about a trans vampire trying to find a way to access HRT that works for bodies that are technically dead, thank you
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Very bold of Joanne to invent a sport where being a chaser is a legitimate position and then be transphobic
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This whole “somebody needs to tell trans teens they won’t be loved” discourse only makes me want to write more books about trans teens being loved and celebrated.
Because I’m what? Petty.
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I’m calling it: April 7th, exactly a week after TDOV when people are already back on their bullshit, is the perfect day for Trans Day of Rage
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I am a
[ ] man
[ ] woman
[x] ???
Seeking a
[ ] man
[ ] woman
[x] extravagant multi-millionaire willing to marry me, put me in their will, and die the next day
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To anyone buying that bullshit that trans kids are too young to know their gender and affirming them is traumatizing them:
No.
Sincerely,
A 22 year-old trans woman who had the ability to come out eleven years ago, didn’t, and still frequently breaks down due to this trauma.
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I can’t believe this needs saying but um...the trans community neither has nor needs an Alpha?
...woof
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Pandemic round one: people realizing they’re gay
Pandemic round two: people realizing they’re trans
Pandemic round three: …people realizing they’re furries, probably?
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Has this been done yet? Because I’m still hurting.
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“There’s no way J.K. Rowling would ever reach too dramatic a point in her obvious bigotry!” said the people now rushing to explain nobody ever warned them this was the direction she was heading
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Screw it, y’all, what’s your favourite thing about being trans?? Let’s brighten up the timeline a bit today
(Mine is the intimate and intricate relationship I have with my own gender as a result of regularly examining and unpacking it/how I navigate the world)
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If being around the community for like…two and a half years makes me a trans elder, I can’t wait for five years when I get to become an Eldritch Trans™️
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Today I got to help a mom find trans/nonbinary MG books for her kid and…wow do I love being a bookseller sometimes
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Since this is happening today anyway: here I am, working on a hashtag from a weeks ago about how women shave too.
Many women—cis and trans. Look at me, big and scary and erasing women everywhere.
And while I’m at it? I’m a woman. And I’m incredibly sapphic.
#TransIsBeautiful
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Multi-million dollar corporations during Pride month:
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Me in 2010: I’m a writer!! I wanna be like J.K. Rowling when I grow up
Me in 2020: Joanne is a dumpster fire and I hope she hurries up and consumes herself
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Ah yes, the three genders: men, women, and the French
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I keep hearing people say teens aren’t reading the classics, but I’m not sure what they mean?? I saw a teen buying a copy of Twilight like two days ago?
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I would like it on the record that at the time I wrote this tweet I didn’t know/remember registries had another meaning and in hindsight I may have opened this slightly differently
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My boss just offered to order name tags with all the pronouns I use so I can rotate/communicate what fits at any point and I’m feeling so many emotions, but also I’m frustrated I ever thought I deserved anything less
If you can/are safe to, ask for what you need. You deserve it.
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