Catie’s Reviews > Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story > Status Update

I just googled it. You don’t

You have to pay a publisher just to mention the name of a book in your book? What the fuck?

Lots of millennial humor. A little “who is this book targeted to?” bc no explanations of terms/slight disdain for cis people, but also preaching to the choir/acting like someone reading this book wouldn’t already believe that free gender expression is necessary, and that the audience needs to be convinced. Also don’t have a f*ck about the religious parts but I’m sure it works for somebody *shrug*

Why is dressing as Mulan for Halloween insensitive? You’re not dressed as “A Chinese Person”, you’re dressed as a specific (fictional) character. As long as you don’t engage in racial stereotypes, is it still insensitive?

I understand that wearing someone else’s culture as a costume is insensitive. (Native American culture and Pocahontas especially because of all the misinformation about her real life and history.) Is this a hard and fast rule? I have seen kids dressed as Moana with seemingly no pushback. Is that not someone’s culture? (I assumed Moana was based on real islands’ cultures.)

Is it problematic to dress as Mulan for Halloween?

Iteratively- in a way that is done again and again; repetitively

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