Transfic

Quick meaning: Transfic is a noun meaning (fandom slang, uncountable) Such fan fiction collectively.

Meaning

(fandom slang, uncountable) Such fan fiction collectively.

More Meanings

1. (fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.

Example Sentences

Examples of transfic include such popular cultural fixtures as Marvel's Avengers and Peter Parker/Spider-Man envisioned as transgender characters.

Transfic is a relatively new genre: the first known story to use the transfic label was Changes, a Star Wars fan fiction published online by Jane Sehrn-Ta in 2004.

In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue to be read (and identify) as their canonical gender (or something close to it).

Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.

Word Forms

• transfics
• trans fic

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transfem, transfolks, rapefic, transfur, metafic, deathfic.

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