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Jeanne Thornton

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in Muskegon, MI, The United States

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http://jeannethornton.com

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Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Comics & Graphic Novels

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V.S. Naipaul, Imogen Binnie,Eileen Myles, Junichiro Tanizaki, R. Crumb ...more

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Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun (Soho 2021), The Black Emerald (Instar 2014), and The Dream of Doctor Bantam (OR 2012). She is the copublisher of Instar Books and the editor, with Tara Madison Avery, of the Ignatz Award-winning We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. Her fiction has appeared in n+1, WIRED, The Evergreen Review, and more. More information is at www.jeannethornton.com. ...more

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	Summer Fun 4.13 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A/S/L 3.77 avg rating — 847 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor), Casey Plett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), RJ Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 495 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Strike against God by Joanna Russ, Alec Pollak (Introduction), Jeanne Thornton (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Garnette Cadogan (Contributor), Bill Cheng (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology by Tara Madison Avery (Editor), Jeanne Thornton (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of Doctor Bantam 4.05 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016 by Bogi Takács (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author), Sonya Taaffe 4.02 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Emerald 4.45 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016 by Jeanne Thornton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tara Campbell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christine Lucas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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fine, she says; her armor is already up. I immediately fold, a little bit: what
was my purpose in calling here if I’m only going to upset her? I never know how
to handle these things. I wish I knew how to have a project or something with
Siobhan: when I have a project, I know how to relate to people. It’s the
project that relates to people, and I’m just the tiny Fionna riding in the
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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols

by Jean Chevalier

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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

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“We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that.”
― Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

tags: dysphoria, trans-women

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“It takes vast willpower, luck, and skill to be the first. But it takes a gigantic heart to be number two.”
― Johan Harstad, Buzz Aldrin, waar ben je gebleven?

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“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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“You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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“Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage. He had no right to tease them. They knew no relation but possession. They were possessed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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“O nobly-born, when thou art driven [hither and thither] by the ever-moving wind of karma, thine intellect, having no object upon which to rest, will be like a feather tossed about by the wind, riding on the horse of breath. Ceaselessly and involuntarily wilt thou be wandering about. To all those who are weeping [thou wilt say], ‘Here I am; weep not.’ But they not hearing thee, thou wilt think, ‘I am dead!’ And again, at that time, thou wilt be feeling very miserable. Be not miserable in that way.”
― W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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