Over at CDL princesitanatty explores the ambivalent relationship between sissy fiction and transfemme identity.
The author argues that, read literally, sissy fiction often raises ethical concerns because of its themes of coercion, forced feminization, and identity erasure.
Read symbolically, however, it can function as a fantasy space for negotiating desire, gender exploration, and internalized norms.
She sunderlines that the term “sissy” should not be reduced to humiliation alone: for some it names a kink, for others an identity, and its meaning varies by context.
She also looks at the partial overlap and partial tension between sissy and transfemme communities. While some transfemme people have used sissy narratives to explore gender, others reject the label because of its degrading or fetishized associations.
Drawing on Spenser Shelley Feller’s article "Sissy the Archive: Ambivalent Intimacies between ‘Sissy’ and ‘Trans’ in Trans Archives and Contemporary Fiction" princesitanatty concludes that this relationship should be understood as fundamentally ambivalent, as shown in novels by Imogen Binnie, Alison Rumfitt, and Torrey Peters.
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