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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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Essay Topics

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The subtitle of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is “A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir.” How does the text utilize the conventions of the memoir? How does it put pressure on or destabilize them?

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The main cast of characters in Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is made up of trans women. What forms of anti-trans bias does the text highlight? How do the women of the Street resist this oppression?

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The narrator of the text is a self-described liar. How does her position as an unreliable narrator affect the reader’s understanding of the text? How does it influence the character development of the narrator?

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