The Horror of Having a Gendered Body

Tuck chats with author Carmen Maria Machado (she/her) to wrap up Cis Day of Visibility. Topics include:

• The horrors of living in a gendered body
• Doing a press tour about your trauma
• Writing about gender without having an answer
• Is the pandemic more or less horny than Carmen’s 2013 short story?
• Also: vampire sex, ghosts touching, and “gender: yes or no?” 

Follow Carmen on IG @carmenmmachado, and find Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House wherever books are sold. The referenced vampire interview is available on Electric Lit.

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