She was part of a long tradition of women in myth, literature, and history who had to disguise their gender to do things that women weren’t allowed to do (like Mulan). I always loved these books (they were the defining novels of my pre-teen years) but never considered Alanna this way. There’s magic and sword fights and romance, and Alanna has several male lovers throughout the series and eventually marries a man. Williams’ comments (the initial question was about sexuality, not gender identity) … or if I should shut up and not argue with the actual author.įor those of you that haven’t read the Alanna books, the fantasy novels follow the adventures of Alanna, who starts the series as a young girl and disguises herself as a boy in order to become a knight. But it also makes me wonder if gender fluid is the correct term for Alanna, given what we know about her, or if it’s being misapplied here like it was to Mr. Īs a life-long fan of Pierce’s work and Alanna herself, it makes me so happy to see Pierce saying this. I think the term is ‘gender-fluid’, though there wasn’t a word for this (to my knowledge) when I was writing her. She took the best bits of being a woman and a man, and created her own unique identity.
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