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Serena Sonoma

Essays and dispatches on transmisogynoir, narrative control, media power, and the politics of representation

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Harry Potter Wants Your Nostalgia. Rowling Gets Your Money.

There is no way to ethically consume the new Harry Potter series. Watching it pays Rowling, and Rowling pays for the fight to strip people like me of our rights, by the way.

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The Right to Remain Unfinished

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The streetcar came through the rain at the exact moment my phone failed me.

I was standing near Market Street, ha...

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Trans Women Aren't Women? Fine Then.

We'wha (Zuni lhamana), photographed in Washington, D.C., c. 1886. Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives.

Let's take the question more seriously than the people asking it ever have.

I've been reading Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí's The Inven...

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A quick note

A quick note to say I've reset this Substack — new positioning, new direction, same writer. If you'd like the short version of where this is going, the About page has it.

Thanks for being here.

— Serena

2 months ago

Selected Work

Most of what I write is some version of two questions: who gets to tell the story of trans women — especially Black trans women — and who profits when somebody else tells it. That's the work.

The pieces below are grouped by argument, not b...

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