So for me, the odd rep I want more of is Genderfluid rep. Specifically man to woman Genderfluid, don’t get me wrong I love it when there’s any rep period (such as Naoto from Persona 4 [Genderfluid born woman]). But it’s so very rare to see a man in media put on women’s clothes and have it not be a joke. It’s upsetting to me that I have to headcanon my own rep out of characters I see. Like I headcanon J’onn J’onnz (Supergirl TV) as being Genderfluid (“The skirt was surprisingly comfortable”), and that’s a tricky thing because the poor guy is already rep for so many other people (Jews, African Americans, Refugees, etc.), I feel like I’m invading him/what he means to people with my own headcanon.

I wish I could think of another Genderfluid character (that isn’t a headcanon) and I just can’t at the moment. Steven Universe? Maybe? From what I’ve seen of the show (I haven’t watched it) he’s always identifying as a boy, even when he’s wearing a dress and doing a musical number, he’s a boy. Again, we can headcanon, but that’s not the same thing. Before someone says it, Stevonnie is non-binary, which is awesome, but not the same thing (in my mind anyway).

I don’t know, I hate to be a downer in the comments, but this is something that I wish had been in my life from a younger age. If I’d seen a Genderfluid character back when I was seven and wondering what it’d be like to be a girl, I know I’d have felt better about talking to my parents about it. As it stands I repressed that part of myself as weird, and am only now, at the age of 27, coming to terms with it.

Great podcat. I really like the topic: So I want to see more of these things:
Aromantic characters: I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a well done represantation of an aromantic person in a TV show, movie or book. If there are representations of people who don’t experience romatic attractions it’s portrayed as a form of mental illness or as something wrong. The character might be shown as not being interested in any form of relationships like friendship or family relatonship. Which is wrong. Aromantics can have very meaningful friendships and love their family members, we are just not interested in romantic relationships and there is nothing wrong with that.

Characters who are voluntarily childless and happy: Nearly none of my friends or family members understands why I don’t want to have children. They all tell me that this is gonna change, that having children is wonderful, etc. This might be the case for many people, but there are others who just don’t want children and are happy without having children. Being voluntarly childless is often stigmatised and few people understand why someone does not want to have children. I hope a better representation of people who are voluntarily childless would help create a better acceptance of people who deceide against having children.

If anyone knows a TV show, book or movie that has a good representation of eiher of these things please let me know.

I really enjoyed this podcast! It was quite relevant to things I’ve been thinking about lately. One form of representation I wish I had seen as a kid, specifically, is literary characters who do not like to read/are not good at reading. I think this is important for kids, especially for kids who were like me. I’m dyslexic and while I loved stories and books, I felt intimidated by them. I understand why authors are more likely to write about Hermiones than Rons. They relate more to writers and many readers do too.

Last year, I tutored a 5th grade girl in Reading. She read at a second grade level and it was obvious that she was embarrassed by it and resented going to tutoring. She eventually warmed up to me and improved so much of the course of the year, due in part to one of the books we read which was about a little girl who had difficulty reading. We read that book three or four times that year. She saw herself in the girl in the book and I think at her age I would have too.