![]() Instead, he is just another teenager who happens to be black, gay and trans. He is not a perfect character whose only purpose is to be black, gay and trans. He ends up making careless mistakes and lies. ![]() ![]() And Callender presents this beautifully.įelix says things he regrets moments later. Labels exist for comfort and not for tying you into the opposite. And you can never be an imposter for merely going deeper into your journey. Reaching a conclusion after having questioned for a long time, only to go back to questioning again, may lead to complicated emotions, such as "was I faking it all along?" But finding a label today does not mean you cannot have a different one tomorrow. Yet, he struggles with a niggle he could never coherently put into words but only feel, vividly describing how amorphous gender identity can be. The book begins at a point when Felix has already discovered parts of who he is. Have you ever read a book that you keep coming back to and enjoy but at the same time, you keep wishing you could read it for the first time again and experience the emotions you had previously felt? For me, Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After fits the description perfectly.Īs a black, transgender and gay demi boy, Felix's story delves into issues of identity and self-discovery through an intersectional lens, giving a nuanced and honest account. ![]()
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