An Emily Flake cartoon in the August 3rd New Yorker:
There reference here is to people with transgender self-identification, though in fact pluots are biological hybrids, parallel to intersex people. There might also be an allusion to white people who self-identify as black (posting on this blog here).
August 3, 2015 at 5:20 pm |
Discussion of the various hybrids here:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/08/07/portmanteau-prunus/