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@ljwrites@writeout.ink  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 2 – Talk about something you’ve retold.

I've retold the Ballad of #Mulan as a #transfeminine narrative! In iambic pentameter and heroic couplets! It's called A Maiden's War, and you can check it out at the feminist #folklore retelling mag Corvid Queen: https://corvidqueen.com/stories/a-maidens-war-lj-lee That's not even my only transfem Mulan retelling, there's a short story version written in 2023 (!) that I need to fix up and shop around.

I love transfem Mulan in case you can't tell, and it's not a difficult conclusion to come to when you read the original Ballad (I've posted a translation on my blog https://ljwrites.blog/posts/ballad-of-mulan/ ) and note the off-the-charts levels of gender euphoria going on when Mulan casts off her wartime clothes and dolls up in her room.

#poetry

The Ballad of Mulan

The long, grim cloak of war do I cast off / The skirt of girlhood I put on with love.
Corvid Queen

A Maiden’s War / L.J. Lee — Corvid Queen

Unthinkable, my father in the North / As well might hew our pillar for a sword! / No other man in household is of age, / But watch me don the cloth and take the stage.
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