Meredith Maran

1 week ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Meredith Maran

Oakland author Caro De Robertis’ latest book is “So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color.” Photo: Portrait by Irene YoungIn 2009, when Uruguayan American writer Carolina De Robertis read from her first novel, “The Invisible Mountain,” at the indie icon Booksmith on Haight, she was clad in flowing silk, her blue eyes kohl-lined, her lips plumped in crimson lipstick. Glossy brown tresses cascaded down her back.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Meredith Maran

“The Lilac People” exhumes a buried history of acceptance — followed by attempted erasure — of the trans community at a time when the queer community is under heightened political attack. In the run-up to the 2024 election, on cable news shows and at dinner tables, Americans debated a question that terrified various groups of us for various reasons. If Trump won, would he replace our democracy with fascism?

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Meredith Maran

In the run-up to the 2024 election, on cable news shows and at dinner tables, Americans debated a question that terrified various groups of us for various reasons. If Trump won, would he replace our democracy with fascism? Given Republican anti-trans ad spending estimated at $215 million on network television alone (“She’s for they/them, he’s for you”), trans people had reason to fear that Trump would eviscerate the civil rights they’d earned over the last half-century.

2 months ago | spokesman.com | Meredith Maran

When my fiancée, Denise, declared themself gender nonbinary and started using they/them pronouns, I didn’t get it. In fact, I fought it. I used grammar, biology, any stick I could grab to argue that humans come in only two genders – thereby proving two disturbing revelations of the 2024 election. One, the power of transphobia. It worked for Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans, who spent $215 million on anti-trans ads ahead of the election.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Meredith Maran

When my fiancée, Denise, declared themself gender nonbinary and started using they/them pronouns, I didn’t get it. In fact, I fought it. I used grammar, biology, any stick I could grab to argue that humans come in only two genders — thereby proving two disturbing revelations of the 2024 election. One, the power of transphobia. It worked for Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans, who spent $215 million on anti-trans ads ahead of the election.