Wonderful “fanzine” by Maia Kobabe, a “mediation on loving flawed media and feeling betrayed by a childhood hero”:

We can love a thing and still critique it. In fact, that’s the only way to really love a thing. Let’s be critical lovers and loving critics and open ourselves to the truth about where we are and where we’ve been. Instead of holding tight to the same old, failed patriarchies, let’s walk a new road, speak new languages. Today, let’s imagine a literature, a literary world, that carries this struggle for equity in its very essence, so that tomorrow it can cease to be necessary, and disappear.

Created in 2019 and 2023, and particularly relevant today in light of the recent UK supreme court’s ruling that excludes transgender women from the legal definition of a woman. That ruling led the British Transport Police to update their policy to allow male officers to strip search transgender women. The victorious gender-critical activists were applauded—and financially supported—by JK Rowling.

Sometimes we must abandon our heroes.