“‘I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter’ struck me as a complex, ugly, lovely story: partially satire and partially an attempt to reckon with the complexities of gender identity,” @ ...

What would it be like if your gender was actually “helicopter”? As a story, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” explores three separate but interconnected ideas: gender as an ...

Even if “Attack Helicopter” turns out to be an #ownvoices story. Even if the author did successfully communicate their actual personal experience of gender identity, the subject was still ...

The story was titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” which describes ... ambitious and beautifully written exploration of gender. But others saw something insidious.

Identifying as an 'attack helicopter' is a meme that dates back to at least 2014, and is used to mock trans people and those who identify outside the gender binary. The researchers wrote the paper ...