not to throw my hat into the ring of the harrow gender wars but i do think it kind of rules how she’s written with a schrodinger’s gender. you could plausibly read her as butch or as femme or as a secret third thing and any of those positions would be substantiated in-text and provide illuminating interpretations both in terms of character & in terms of how she interacts with the gendered texture of her social world. really impressive amount of gender packed into one tiny and Compact girl*.