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Daddy s Home (out May 14), Annie Clark s sixth album as St. Vincent, takes the sounds and sleaze of early-1970s New York as its aesthetic backdrop. Zackery Michael/Courtesy of the artist
There s a scene in Torrey Peters new novel,
Detransition, Baby, where two trans women argue over the enduring legacy of Candy Darling, one of the most memorable stars in Andy Warhol s orbit in late- 60s and early- 70s New York. One character asserts that she was little more than a muse, a blank canvas onto which men like Warhol and Lou Reed (who wrote about her in Candy Says and Walk on the Wild Side ) could project their fantasies: just some helpless languid blonde waiting around for a man to save her and make her famous. In response, the other character lifts her skirt to reveal an enormous, photorealistic portrait of Darling s face tattooed
Several signatories of the letter hid behind false names, including those of dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, “because of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industry”.
According to the signatories of the open letter, the decision to longlist Peters for the Women’s prize “communicates powerfully that women authors are unworthy of our own prize, and that it is fine to allow male people to appropriate our honours … the moment you decided that a male author was eligible, the award ceased to be the Women’s prize and became simply the Fiction prize”.
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Torrey Peters new book features three people who struggle with parenthood and family questions. She says a transgender lens can help everyone understand the limits of how we define gender.