Update on David Levithan gendered-pronoun issue:<\/p>\r\n
As I may have mentioned here a while back, I was startled and a little dismayed when I read the author note at the beginning of Levithan\u2019s Six Earlier Days<\/cite> (prequel to Every Day<\/cite>), which used the word \u201chis\u201d in referring to the nongendered protagonist, whose name is A. I interpreted that line as the author thinking of the character as male, and I was grumpy enough about that that it sort of cast a shadow on my enjoyment of the book. (It didn\u2019t help that I went on to read Another Day<\/cite>, which retells the events of Every Day<\/cite> from Rhiannon\u2019s point of view, and in which Rhiannon sometimes tends to wishfully think of A as male.)<\/p>\r\n The other day, I finally figured out how to get in touch with Levithan; turns out that his Facebook page has a place for asking him questions, which turns the question you type into a Facebook message. So I asked him about it. And I got a response from him, letting me know that the word \u201chis\u201d had been a typo, and that it\u2019s supposed to be fixed in future editions of the book.<\/p>\r\n (I\u2019ll try to drop a note to the publisher, because the ebook is still being sold with the misgendering pronoun, and I would guess it might not be too hard for them to correct that even if they\u2019re not ready to do a new paper edition.)<\/p>\r\n I\u2019m relieved, and glad that Levithan took the time to respond to me. Knowing the \u201chis\u201d was unintentional will make it easier for me to relax into and enjoy the sequel, Someday<\/cite>, which is coming out in October.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17472,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions\/17472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}