{"id":277076,"date":"2018-11-22T12:33:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/22\/hello-mr-gaiman-for-the-occasion-of-trans\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:33:41","slug":"hello-mr-gaiman-for-the-occasion-of-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/22\/hello-mr-gaiman-for-the-occasion-of-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Mr Gaiman, for the occasion of Trans Awareness Week, i am very curious to ask: which of the many characters you have created are either explicitly and canonically transgender, or were created or thought of from you as transgender without it being explicitly shown\/said? This, of course, is not meant to take away from people&#8217;s freedom to interpret or headcanon characters as such"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/post\/180353914126\/hello-mr-gaiman-for-the-occasion-of-trans\">neil-gaiman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s see: Wanda and Hal in Sandman are both trans, Desire is Trans (and in the Big Universe there are versions of the Endless that include all genders \u2014 we got to see a female Dream in Sandman Overture). There are trans characters in Miracleman, but that\u2019s a plot point that\u2019s been waiting 25 years to be told, and you\u2019ve met a trans character in Neverwhere, and although that\u2019s not apparent in Neverwhere itself it will be if I ever finish the Seven Sisters.  Kalanu in American Gods is trans, everyone pretty much in the short story \u201cChanges\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And I just got the call saying it\u2019s time to go back to the house and start cooking for Thanksgiving, and I don\u2019t know how to save these as drafts, so I will post it now, and expand further on it later. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>neil-gaiman: Let\u2019s see: Wanda and Hal in Sandman are both trans, Desire is Trans (and in the Big Universe there are versions of the Endless that include all genders \u2014 we got to see a female Dream in Sandman Overture). There are trans characters in Miracleman, but that\u2019s a plot point that\u2019s been waiting 25 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/22\/hello-mr-gaiman-for-the-occasion-of-trans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello Mr Gaiman, for the occasion of Trans Awareness Week, i am very curious to ask: which of the many characters you have created are either explicitly and canonically transgender, or were created or thought of from you as transgender without it being explicitly shown\/said? This, of course, is not meant to take away from people&#8217;s freedom to interpret or headcanon characters as such&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[371,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}