Pleased to say that you can look for "Gender is a Constructicon: Transformers as Allegory for Queer Liberation" in an upcoming issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social.
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Started joking with friends about how "Gender is a Constructicon," and ended up writing 600 words about Transformers as a metaphor for queer liberation.
(Bonecrusher is clearly the member of the Constructicon polycule who does not update the shared Google calendar as diligently as he should.)
Alt: a group of construction vehicles are parked on a grassy field. They turn into robots and assemble into Devastator.
