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| gender= [[nonbinary woman|nonbinary/agender woman]]<ref>https://www.riverssolomon.com/hireme</ref> | | gender= *[[nonbinary woman|nonbinary/agender woman]]<ref>{{cite web|title=SENSITIVITY READING| url=https://www.riverssolomon.com/hireme| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712185256/https://www.riverssolomon.com/hireme|archive-date=12 July 2020|last=Solomon|first=Rivers}}</ref> | ||
*"agender person"/"quasi-womanthing/womanbeast/ gendermalcontent/[[queer]]"<ref>{{cite tweet|user=cyborgyndroid|last=Solomon|first=Rivers|number=1270827714983923714|title=i don't usually talk about my gender on here because i believe as a transmisogyny-exempt agender person* who (at present) is not pursuing medical transition...that the violence i face for being non-cis is comparatively minimal. | |||
*quasi-womanthing/womanbeast/gendermalcontent/queer|date=10 June 2020}}</ref> | |||
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{{quote|When I'm writing anything my main concern is: is this good? Is this really fucking good? Will it surprise, refresh, delight, intimidate? Is it gorgeous? Is it horrifying? Importantly, I don't want to bore anyone. I don't want to waste anyone’s time. I am a hungry, questioning creature who likes to work out my philosophical queries on the page, but I want it to be a fun ride for anyone who’s bought a ticket. I want everything I write to be striking, regardless of genre.<ref name="Davenport">{{Cite web |title=2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon |last=Davenport |first=Lily |work=Black Warrior Review |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=26 May 2020 |url= https://bwr.ua.edu/2019-contest-interview-with-fiction-judge-rivers-solomon/}}</ref>}} | {{quote|When I'm writing anything my main concern is: is this good? Is this really fucking good? Will it surprise, refresh, delight, intimidate? Is it gorgeous? Is it horrifying? Importantly, I don't want to bore anyone. I don't want to waste anyone’s time. I am a hungry, questioning creature who likes to work out my philosophical queries on the page, but I want it to be a fun ride for anyone who’s bought a ticket. I want everything I write to be striking, regardless of genre.<ref name="Davenport">{{Cite web |title=2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon |last=Davenport |first=Lily |work=Black Warrior Review |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=26 May 2020 |url= https://bwr.ua.edu/2019-contest-interview-with-fiction-judge-rivers-solomon/}}</ref>}} | ||
{{quote|i am a gender liberationist. i want to live in a world that does not coercively [[Assigned at birth|assign children into one of two categories]] & [[transphobia|punish]] the ones who [[Gender nonconformity|do not conform]] to it. thanks for listening, pals.<ref>https://twitter.com/cyborgyndroid/status/1270839060400136194, 10 June 2020</ref>}} | |||
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| Place of birth | California, USA |
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Rivers Solomon is an author originally from the United States; they currently live in Cambridge, England.[3]
Works
- An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017)
- The Deep (2019)
- Sorrowland (2021)
Quotes
| « | When I'm writing anything my main concern is: is this good? Is this really fucking good? Will it surprise, refresh, delight, intimidate? Is it gorgeous? Is it horrifying? Importantly, I don't want to bore anyone. I don't want to waste anyone’s time. I am a hungry, questioning creature who likes to work out my philosophical queries on the page, but I want it to be a fun ride for anyone who’s bought a ticket. I want everything I write to be striking, regardless of genre.[4] | » |
| « | i am a gender liberationist. i want to live in a world that does not coercively assign children into one of two categories & punish the ones who do not conform to it. thanks for listening, pals.[5] | » |
References
- ↑ Solomon, Rivers. "SENSITIVITY READING". Archived from the original on 12 July 2020.
- ↑ Solomon, Rivers [@cyborgyndroid] (10 June 2020). "i don't usually talk about my gender on here because i believe as a transmisogyny-exempt agender person* who (at present) is not pursuing medical transition...that the violence i face for being non-cis is comparatively minimal. *quasi-womanthing/womanbeast/gendermalcontent/queer" – via Twitter. line feed character in
|title=at position 228 (help) - ↑ Coleman, Christian A. (November 2019). "Interview: Rivers Solomon". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ↑ Davenport, Lily (17 April 2019). "2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon". Black Warrior Review. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/cyborgyndroid/status/1270839060400136194, 10 June 2020