6/5/2023 0 Comments The seep by chana porterI began by asking Chana about her first glimpse of the idea that became The Seep.Ĭ: There’s a secret book that probably no-one will ever see, written from the point of view of a teenager in my hometown. Part 1 of the interview is below, or you can read the whole thing right now as a PDF transcript. She is a founder of the Octavia Project which brings together young women and trans, gender non-conforming, or non-binary teens to create speculative fictions offering “new futures and greater possibilities for our world”, blending creative writing, art, science, and technology. Our conversation touched not just on the novel, but also Porter’s plays and her work as an education activist. The book follows Trina along her spiral of grief as she begins a strange quest in a transformed world. An artist who retrains as a doctor after the invasion, she cherishes “the casual overthrow of everything that had felt codified but broken for so long“ - until her partner Deeba decides to use the Seep’s power to be reborn as a baby, moving on to a new life. Trina Goldberg-Oneka, a middle-aged trans woman, is the book’s protagonist.
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