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* In children's book ''The Boy & The Bindi'' by Vivek Shraya, "A five-year-old South Asian boy becomes fascinated with his mother’s bindi, the red dot commonly worn by Hindu women to indicate the point at which creation begins. He wishes to have one of his own bindi, which his mother agrees to."<ref>https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/childrens-literature/the-boy-the-bindi</ref> | * In children's book ''The Boy & The Bindi'' by Vivek Shraya, "A five-year-old South Asian boy becomes fascinated with his mother’s bindi, the red dot commonly worn by Hindu women to indicate the point at which creation begins. He wishes to have one of his own bindi, which his mother agrees to."<ref>https://www.adl.org/education/educator-resources/childrens-literature/the-boy-the-bindi</ref> | ||
* In the novella ''Seven Minutes'', by Grace Kilian Delaney, the character Devon wears makeup and skirts while identifying himself as a guy. The novella was expanded and republished in 2020 under the title ''Seven Minutes in Vegas''. Content note: explicit sexual scenes, instances of physical/verbal abuse, discrimination, gun violence, use of deadly weapons, anger issues, and substance abuse. | * In the novella ''Seven Minutes'', by Grace Kilian Delaney, the character Devon wears makeup and skirts while identifying himself as a guy. The novella was expanded and republished in 2020 under the title ''Seven Minutes in Vegas''. Content note: explicit sexual scenes, instances of physical/verbal abuse, discrimination, gun violence, use of deadly weapons, anger issues, and substance abuse. | ||
* In the young-adult book ''Girl Mans Up'', by M.E. Girard, the protagonist Pen is a gender-nonconforming lesbian. Pen expresses herself in a masculine manner, though she doesn't use the term [[butch]]. Pen thinks the following in regards to her classmate Blake: | |||
{{quote|I think maybe she could be my girlfriend. I don't want to be her girlfriend, though. But there's this part of me that totally knows I could be her boyfriend. I don't want her to think of me as a boy, or a boy substitute, though. I want to be a boyfriend who is a girl. I have no idea how to explain that stuff to anyone, let alone a girl I like. I just wish it was already all understood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rick Riordan's review of Girl Mans Up |author= |work=Goodreads |date=31 January 2019 |access-date=30 September 2021 |url= https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2696916013?book_show_action=true}}</ref>}} | |||
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