![]() ![]() “I realised we have a globally agreed idea of what this character looked like. “There was this exhibition in Melbourne about visual representations of Alice,” says Dawson, speaking via Google Hangouts. It was during an Australian book tour for Clean that the idea of appropriating Alice in Wonderland popped up. ![]() Kendall was a minor character, but Alice commands her own story. She came out publicly in 2015 and, three years later, created her first transgender character: Kendall, a gentle anorexic, in what was to become her most successful novel, Clean. But while Alice has transitioned by the time she starts secondary school, it wasn’t until Dawson was a well-known author in her 30s (crowned Queen of Teen in a reader-led YA prize) that she felt ready to take the plunge, changing from James to Juno. ![]() Nestling on a sofa in her living room with Prince, her sleepy chihuahua, Dawson looks like she knows exactly who she is, but the author is all too aware of what it’s like to be a victim of that lazy angel. Down a rabbit hole … Juno Dawson’s new Wonderland. ![]()
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