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Eli Cugini

Eli Cugini (he/they) is a UK-based culture writer and PhD student, who writes widely on fiction, gaming, and sexual culture. He tweets at @uncanny_eli.

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The prolific author talks drawing on 1990s young adult fiction, the trans book boom and the best approach to writing about eating disorders

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Ignored for 40 years, Kay Dick’s paranoid dystopian novel ‘They’ rings true today
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Ignored for 40 years, Kay Dick’s paranoid dystopian novel ‘They’ rings true today

A bisexual writer and editor who was ahead of her time, Kay Dick’s prescient oeuvre deserves reappraisal

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The troubled golden age of trans literature
The Xtra Long Read

The troubled golden age of trans literature

Despite recent successes, a growing chorus of trans writers are asking tough questions, like where’s the nuance and context in literary criticism, and who’s holding the publishing industry to account?

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Trans in isolation: Four non-binary and trans folks on the realities of COVID-19
Power

Trans in isolation: Four non-binary and trans folks on the realities of COVID-19

From the courage to come out, to freedom from misgendering, to the pains of quarantine dysphoria

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