Rarely Written 2015

[toujours_nigel]

The Rare Women Exchange returns this year as rarelywritten, and has now been thrown open to all characters who fall outside the rubric of cis-male. Announcement, FAQ and Important Dates are up.

Please consider nominating/requesting/offering your favourite under-represented characters from marginalised sexes and genders. Given the hit count requirements, all non-cis-male characters among the Ancients should more than qualify.

Comments

[greerwatson]

"I plan on sticking to cis-women, actually"

Me, too. I get where they're coming from; but I had no problem with it being rarewomen. Surely, there ought to be a place in fandom for an exchange for canonical women as well as one for "othered" people of all sorts?

Still, it's their exchange.

[toujours_nigel]

Well, I'm actually extremely glad that they've opened it up. Feminism and feminist exchanges ought to include trans* and gender-queer and non-binary people. And if you've read the rules, they explicitly exclude head-canons, so no AUs where a cis-man turns female will be entertained.

I was speaking entirely on pragmatic grounds: my current fandoms don't include trans* women (other than OitNB, but I am not familiar enough with that to offer for it). If I have a slot empty after nomming Olympias, Eurydike, Kleopatra, Sisygambis, Roxane, Drypetis, and Stateira I'll nominate, not Bagoas since I doubt he'll meet the hit-requirements, but very likely Oromedon.

ETA: For women-centric, or women-only exchanges, you can try purimgifts, femslashex, and a third thing that currently escapes me. *g*