There's nothing wrong with engaging in speculation about the author's life and mental state when talking about a work of art -- some of them pretty much demand such a reaction -- as long as you keep in mind that a lot of such big theories have been proven embarrassingly wronghttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1340688363339300866 …
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Very, very few of James Tiptree's colleagues -- including ones who considered themselves his close friends -- seriously suspected him of being a woman before Alice Sheldon's exposure, despite how a lot of them rewrote history to claim they did afterwards
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(I mean, i don't think Tiptree was a woman in an uncomplicated sense anyway, although she did use "she" pronouns. She also referred to herself as "her father's son", etc. I think if she'd had the language she might very well have identified as genderqueer.)
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Yeah this gets into speculation and the fact that a lot of people didn't recognize the trans framework for gender identity back then but she obviously took active pleasure in having the James Tiptree persona (who went by he/him) and never psychologically recovered from exposure
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