steepholm

and second, something he could certainly have done something about, namely the marketing of the film around the fetishized response to Dil's "secret". That cover of Entertainment Weekly is considerably more offensive than the film, in many ways.

I really think I benefited from living under a rock until 2006. derspatchel saw the film on VHS about a year after it came out and was already primed by pop-cultural jokes to view it solely in terms of a sexual reveal rather than any of its other personal-political axes. But I agree with you that the film's marketing feels like something Jordan could have pushed back against if it mattered to him, and that it directs the audience's attention perhaps even more than the narrative of the film: as is one of its own plot points, what you come in expecting alters what you see.

What YA novels with trans characters have you found that do not depend on twists or reveals? Or should I just ask for a copy of your paper, which sounds interesting in any case?