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     • The graphic novelist ND Stevenson wrote the trans allegory long before he came out. When it was time to adapt it for a new film, he was ready to go further. Share full article ND Stevenson wrote “Nimona,” which explores elements of the trans experience.
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   Jun 30, 2023 · It feels fitting: Nimona author ND Stevenson, who also served as a co-producer on the film, is non-binary and transmasculine, and he came out after writing the comic.

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   • The graphic novelist ND Stevenson wrote the trans allegory long before he came out. When it was time to adapt it for a new film, he was ready to go further. ND Stevenson wrote “Nimona,” which explores elements of the trans experience. Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times

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   Is shape-shifting an allegory for trans identity?

   • “I’d die,” Nimona responds. “That’s horrible!” Ballister exclaims. “Don’t be so gullible,” Nimona says. “I wouldn’t die die. I just sure wouldn’t be living.” Here, shape-shifting can be seen as an allegory for trans identity—and it has, by fans of the web comic-turned-graphic novel by the same name upon which the movie is based.

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   Who is ND Stevenson?

   • ND Stevenson is a cartoonist and animation producer, best known for creating the web-series turned graphic novel Nimona. The Nimona series was optioned in 2015, but Blue Sky Studios was acquired then shuttered by Disney. But the animated feature-length film was resurrected, and released on Netflix this week.

   'Nimona' creator on the evolution of the comic. : NPR

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   Should you watch 'Bloods up' as a trans allegory?

   • If you want to watch the film as a trans allegory, there’s certainly a lot there. But if you just want to watch a beautifully animated adventure story filled with castles and knights and laser cannons and flying cars, starring a shape-shifting force of nature who likes to blow stuff up, there’s that, too.

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4. mashable.com › article › nimona-nd-stevenson-adaptationHow 'Nimona' changed ND Stevenson's life - Mashable

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   Jul 2, 2023 · These aspects of Nimona prompted readings of the comic that examined it as a trans allegory, although at the time of its writing, Stevenson didn't necessarily include these themes on...

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   Jun 30, 2023 · The graphic novelist ND Stevenson wrote the trans allegory long before he came out. When it was time to adapt it for a new film, he was ready to go further.

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   Jun 30, 2023 · In 2020, he came out as trans and non-binary, and has since reflected on the elements of Nimona that spoke to his own gender identity, as well as many of the series' fans.

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   Stevenson came out as non-binary in July 2020 before announcing that he was transmasculine in March of 2021. Even though Stevenson had not come out as transgender, non-binary, or even gender-questioning while Nimona was being written, Nimona as a character had clearly been a standing allegory for transgender experience. In a 2019 “Year in ...

9. decider.com › 2023/07/03 › nimona-trans-metaphor‘Nimona’s Trans Allegory Feels Like a Radical Queer Revolution

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   Jul 3, 2023 · Former Blue Sky staffers have said they received pushback from Disney leadership on the film’s same-sex romance between Riz Ahmed’s character, Ballister, and another male knight named Ambrosius...