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This BlueSky account says it's the official account of the project. It started as a decentralized event so, you can do this while ignoring official stuff if you want. Here is the website with links to their twitter, tiktok, etc. There is also a bingo card and a Storygraph challenge.

If you find good reccs lists or and good content for the event let us know! Are you doing the read-a-thon? Do you have a book list for it? Are you looking for reccs? Let us know!

Beyond: Two Souls has been licensed to be a TV series and may already be in it's development phase. Elliot Page's production company is heading the project. In the original game, Elliot starred as the female lead many years ago.

I haven't played the game, but I am very aware of David Cage as a creator that critics tend to hate with a burning passion, sometimes with very good reasons. But also he's made a number of AAA games because a lot of people tend to play the and some even get very enduring followings. People playing Heavy Rain used to draw crowds at conventions. He's best known for Detroit: Become Human.

"Because as has been noted, the original plan was to have Delenn start out male and emerge from the chrysalis female; so we made the makeup in the pilot very male. Once we realized we couldn't make the voice work without having her dubbed completely, there was no need to retain it" Per a tweet from J. Michael Straczynski

This is a bit of a different post because it's about a scrapped trans storyline that still left and impression on the resulting project. JMS has confirmed it a number of times and points to technical issues, but since the same show had to keep cutting the lesbian storyline to dodge cancellation, it's possible there is more to he story or that the show would not have been greenlit with the original plot.

Also, this was a surprise to me because I was a serious Bab5 fan back in the day and super into both Delenn and their actress Mira Furlan. I could quote the show at length while discussing it and vividly remember getting into arguments about whether something gender was going on with Delenn. By 'arguments' I mean I'd say anything about it and get shouted down. I had totally forgotten all of this until I heard someone mention the whole 'Delenn was meant to be trans' thing the other day. Young me wandering around cons in a giant T shirt with Delenn's face on the front and a B5 logo on the back correcting people incorrectly quoting the show was onto something.

A lot of my searches for more info lead to dead links at a website called The Council of Zoom, but here is the Wayback Machine to the rescue.

Two notable things about this story:

* JMS has been pushing for a reboot of this show as it was a massive passion project of his. If it happens we may see that and other storylines restored.

* Sense8, seen as many as a landmark piece of trans rep in media, was co-created by JMS and the Wachowski sisters, and he was a writer on the show.

I haven't watched any B5 since shortly after the show ended. I know some people have had this as their main fandom all these years. If anyone has some info to add to this, let me know. Also, I may finally rewatch it after all these years (assuming I can get past TKO, season 1 has some rough spots)

She will be the first openly trans actor to be in the Star Wars Cinematic Universe.

I've seen a bit about Monkey Man in the past few days since it's opening this weekend and a lot of people are interested to see how it does. It's Dev Patel's directorial debut. The film was produced by Netflix, who then dropped it for being too political. Jordan Peele then came on as a producer after seeing a screening of the film and now it's opening in theaters. I am not fully sure what it's about, since I am mostly seeing it described as 'John Wick but about Hindu identity'.

The film takes place in India and shows something of the hijra, or third gender, community. By including multiple trans and gender non-conforming roles, Monkey Man makes strides towards this representation while also introducing audiences to a subculture in India with which they may not be familiar.

(Note - I am only vaguely familiar with Indian culture and am trusting entertainment articles, wikipedia and google to make sure I've got my wording right. If anyone knows of a good resource on hijra people, let me know)

Hannah Gadsby brought together a bunch of gender queer comedians for a comedy special that recently debuted on Netflix (and somehow flew under my radar until today)