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\"100<\/a>Olympian Bruce Jenner’s April 24, 2015\u00a0interview with Diane Sawyer<\/a>\u00a0will likely be remembered as one of those critical moments for the LGBTQ community, especially those who identify as\u00a0transgender. While every human being\u00a0should<\/em> be equally valued, Jenner’s hugely public persona will create a more focused spotlight on the transgender community.<\/p>\n

Although it didn’t make quite the splash as Jenner’s identity announcements, last summer’s\u00a0100 Crushes<\/em>\u00a0by Toronto-based Elisha Lim<\/a> surely deserves more attention. Given ongoing identity dialogues, Crushes<\/em> is an important title to check out now more than ever.<\/p>\n

According to Lim’s\u00a0website bio<\/a>, Lim “takes great pleasure in creatively portraying the beauty, dignity and power of being neither straight, nor white, nor cis-gendered”; they (Lim’s preferred pronoun) offer five years of their graphic work in a single, slim, WOW-inducing volume that examines the essence of being fluid, label-defying, label-reclaiming, self-defining … of just being<\/em>. As if to emphasize the changing\/morphing\/being, what you’ll find on either side of the front and back covers are\u00a0a double-page photograph of blank, crushed, then resmoothed white paper. That resmoothed blankness is what you see first once\u00a0you open the book, and what you’ll notice\u00a0last when you close it \u2013 such bookends seem to represent potential, yet with an acknowledgement of experiences in the still visible wrinkles\u00a0that have marked\u00a0the surface.<\/p>\n

Lim’s compilation begins with “an excerpt of the most magical undertaking of my life”\u00a0\u2013 100 Butches<\/em>, “an illustrated catalogue of 100 fabulous butch lesbians that I’ve encountered,” from family to strangers, from heroes to friends, from stars to inspirations. They\u00a0continue with “Sweetest Taboo: Memoirs of a Queer Child in the Eighties,” when television and film actors \u2013 including\u00a0Inspector Gadget and\u00a0Corey Feldman, The Last Unicorn<\/em> and\u00a0The Neverending Story\u00a0\u2013<\/em>\u00a0shaped their\u00a0young view of the world. They\u00a0explore fashion in “The Illustrated Gentleman,” talk about “femme identity” in “Sissy: sissies and the femmes that inspire us,” remember their Singaporean school days in “The Sacred Heart,” discuss the “bold collective experiment with the pronounce ‘They,'” and reveal their “Jealousy” in\u00a0relationships past.<\/p>\n

Eschewing other people’s easy labels, Lim explores their identity through, with, because of others. Fluidity is all around … in Lim’s art, Lim’s writing, and in Lim’s being, creating important lessons for us all.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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