But back in 2012, shortly before I had the idea for the book I began a relationship with a man who's eldest brother is trans, and he had transitioned maybe a year before I met their family. I've always been curious about gender and have always had a pretty skeptical attitude around gender constructs and constraints- the themes in this book are questions which have always interested me. I'm an actor by training, and I think there is a predisposition in professional make-believers to slip into other experiences outside your own. I'm never really sure where to begin when answering this question, because the making of this book was such a big process for me, with a long gestation period, so there are many, many tributaries flowing into the larger river that became Julián is a Mermaid, and it's difficult to name a single source of inspiration, so I'll name several. "Why did you choose to write Julián? What inspired the book?" I'm including the two questions I get asked a lot, and their responses, below.ġ. On being a white, cishet artist creating outside my experience.Īfter a recent interview for Teaching for Change, I was encouraged to adapt a portion of the interview into a post on my own site.
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