The first time I saw a potential future for someone like me. 

Welcome to our LGBT podcast! In this episode we’re talking with Henry Holden (he/they) about Peter Darling by S.A Chant. This novel is a sequel and really a re-telling of Peter Pan, in which Peter is trans, an adult now, and starts a relationship with Captain James Hook! For Henry, he told us, that reading Peter Darling was,  "the first moment that I saw a potential future for someone like me. And I think it was the first time I was allowed to let myself say, 'Yes, you're trans.'" 

Plus, S.A. joins us for the conversation and we get into where the idea for this novel came from, as well as queering fairy tales and how Peter Pan can represent a possibility space for queerness and transness. 

Buy Peter Darling at our Bookshop page: bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbook

Connect with Henry on Instagram: @the_names_henry

Connect with S.A. at austinchant.com and on Twitter: @essaychant.

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