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McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.

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Black Swan is a movie about someone whose art is so pure it annihilates her. Or maybe it's a movie about someone who is persuaded to believe in an art so pure it can annihilate, and in doing so makes ...

Black Swan is a movie about someone whose art is so pure it annihilates her. Or maybe it's a movie about someone who is persuaded to believe in an art so pure it can annihilate, and in doing so makes ...