{"id":516,"date":"2016-11-21T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=516"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:51:10","slug":"a-tale-of-two-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/11\/21\/a-tale-of-two-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy Meets Boy<\/em> and Luna<\/em>\u00a0are two clearly different texts. \u00a0In Boy Meets Boy<\/em> we are presented with a utopian society. \u00a0Everyone is accepting of the LGBTQ community and the “norm” does not just refer to heteronormative, cis-gendered, straight people. \u00a0In Luna<\/em>, however, we are faced with an arguably more realistic world in which our story takes place. \u00a0This world follows strict and at times oppressive gender roles. \u00a0Any break in traditional gender roles, such as the mother of the family being the main breadwinner, is met with extreme discomfort and tension. \u00a0These two world could not be more opposite in terms of shaping the experiences of the young LGBTQ adults living in them.<\/p>\n

However, the two novels do share an obvious similarity; both stories have a transgender character. \u00a0In Boy Meets Boy<\/em> we are introduced to Infinite Darlene, a confident transgender woman who wears fabulous outfits to school and is the quarterback of the school football team. \u00a0In Luna<\/em> we have Liam\/Luna who presents as a boy by day, only donning girl’s clothing and a wig in the safety of the night. \u00a0It is interesting to note how the two different worlds the authors have created have shaped these characters. \u00a0Infinite Darlene is loud and proud, accepted by (almost) everyone at her school and unafraid to strut down the halls as her true self. \u00a0Liam\/Luna however only wants to blend in, to pass or be unrecognizably trans. \u00a0I think it’s interesting to examine the influence that acceptance, or lack thereof, can have on how a person expresses their identity, or even how they desire to express themselves. \u00a0It would be fascinating to transplant Infinite Darlene into Liam\/Luna’s world and vice versa and see how their self-expression changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy Meets Boy and Luna\u00a0are two clearly different texts. \u00a0In Boy Meets Boy we are presented with a utopian society. \u00a0Everyone is accepting of the LGBTQ community and the “norm” does not just refer to heteronormative, cis-gendered, straight people. \u00a0In Luna, however, we are faced with an arguably more realistic world in which our story … Continue reading A Tale of Two Worlds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}