Fictional Memoirs
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I am Freedom! by YourRetellingHighness for ShakespeareFreak
Fandoms: Peter Pan - Charlap & Styne/Leigh & Comden & Green/Robbins, Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
06 Aug 2026
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A Fictional Memoir of the tradition of a woman playing Peter Pan, which helped me think through my Gender. I'm Captain, and I am in charge. This is my Neverland, no one else's.
Credit for the Hamlet references goes to my best friend, ShakespeareFreak.
This NeuroQueer Retelling is appropriate for readers 10 and up, AR 5.20 because kids have the RIGHT to read Queer Literature!
Since an "Actress" is assumed to be a woman, and Peter Pan is a boy, there is Misgendering in this fanfiction. It was in the tags, but I want to put a clear Trigger Warning. Also, Trigger Warning for the racial slur that refers to Indigenous People as "Red." I had thoughts
To #NotYourTigerLily, who put up with me as I learned
To Larissa Fasthorse, who justly restored my lost dignity
To Sondra Lee, who played Tiger Lily, and saved my life
To Adolph Green, who taught me what makes a monster and what makes a man is complicated
To Jerome Robbins, who let me hold two truths at once
To ShakespeareFreak, My Friend ‘Til Forever, I might get through with a friend like you
And of course, to Mary Martin, who taught me about the "Unusual things you can do."Series
- Part 1 of Formative Musical Agender Diptych
- Part 1 of Queer Novelettes
- Part 2 of Fictional Memoirs
- Part 3 of Mythic Autotheory