#also can we contrast this with fn JKR

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Anne Rice on transgender people

Writer, actor and activist Phaylen Fairchild wrote a Medium post calling Rice her friend and “first LGBTQ ally,” recalling when she reached out to Rice in the early 2000s via the email address listed on the author’s website. Not only did Rice respond, she encouraged Fairchild’s newfound writing aspirations. 

“At the time I was a navigating difficult territory of gender and sexuality, and she was the first person I came out to as gay,” Fairchild said in the piece. 

“Anne, although I never heard her voice, felt like a safe place. … She gave me confidence to live authentically, telling me ‘Your life is a story, every day is a new page. Live a story worthy of telling again and again.’”

In 2009, Fairchild came out to Rice again, this time as transgender.   

“In typical Anne fashion, she thought it was fabulous,” Fairchild remembered. 

“She told me at the time that she believed transgender people were sacred, that we possessed a unique gift of life experience that few ever would, which would allow us to see the world from ‘a view from the greatest height.’ She shared with me stories of trans figures in history that she had learned about in her own extensive studies. ‘The most fascinating figures in mythology were always transgender or genderless’ she once told me. ‘And in so many cultures reaching back thousands of years, transgender and intersex people were deified, perceived as wise and powerful.’”

“Anne Rice was the first person who made me feel that it was OK to be comfortable in my skin, and that my journey as a transgender woman was special — not because I was by any means odd, weird or different — but that I was worthy of celebrating because my very existence was ‘a remark on the magic of the complex human condition,’” she continued.

from this article.

#reading this as a trans person myself honestly just made me cry #listen this woman had her demons as we all do etc but i will love her all my life for what she has given me with her books #ofc there are things one can (and should!) criticise abt her/her writing but #next to this will always be the overwhelming love I feel for her work #and what is a writer's work if not the purest expression of their soul #also can we contrast this with fn JKR #I grew up with her books and I am currently re-reading them and I love them just as much as back then #but esp as a young queer teen in a mostly pre-internet/social media age these books expressed something so profound and beautiful #not just on a queer level but on a human level. they will forever be a part of me #i love her. #and finding this bit after her death honestly just hit me really hard #i'm really struggling w mortality and depression currently and continuously but...there is also such insane beauty in the fact that #that we may live on in others via our art #she is honestly still one of my big idols/inspirations in life #personal #trans stuff #transgender #lgbtq issues #anne rice #iwtv #amc's interview with the vampire