Meaning of transfic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.
   countable, slang
2. Such fan fiction collectively.
   slang, uncountable

Examples

“Transfics do not ignore⟳, negate, or push⟳ these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.”

“In this chapter, I’ve proposed three broad sub-genres to the genderbending genre – trans fics, transformation fics, and cisgender fics – in addition to questioning some of the key assumptions built into the very lexicon that dominates the genre.”

“In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend⟳ to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue⟳ to be read⟳ (and identify⟳) as their canonical gender (or something close⟳ to it).”

“Transfic is a relatively new genre: the first known story to use⟳ the transfic label⟳ was Changes, a Star Wars fan fiction published online by Jane Sehrn-Ta in 2004.”

“Examples of transfic include⟳ such popular cultural fixtures as Marvel's Avengers and Peter Parker/Spider-Man envisioned as transgender characters.”

“Most Sherlock transfic is not genderswap in the sense⟳ that characters do not change⟳ their canonical gender. For instance, canonically male Sherlock Holmes is portrayed much more frequently as (trans)male, i.e. a female-to-male trans person, than as a male-to-female trans person.”

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