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People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłď¸â⧠ď¸trans Kansansâ IDs. If I had a Kansas ID, Kansas would ask me to surrender my ID. It’s nonsense. There’s never been a reckoning. Anti-trans moral panic is hotter than ever.
On a journey toward truth
New art, ancient thought. Truth and the meaning thereof isn’t in a dictionary. It’s something you go on a journey to find. Philosophy by Guillermo Hurtado.
Will everything be OK?
No one can promise, but we can prepare. Put your plan into action. Uncertainty is a fact of life. We can promise each other we’ll do the work. We can iteratively take that moment to think about what we need and to prepare.
I am not taking complaints about my face
Why the term âwomanfaceâ is wrong. How is having a womanface or a manface different from having a face? What must I stop doing? I am trans and I woke up with my face. This is my manface?
The freedom to be left alone
We should have the choice, but we donât always have it. In the past, when prompted to think about whether Iâm âoutâ or âqueer,â Iâve thought about the transgressive sense and about the meaning of visibility.
The system always leaves someone out
It doesnât mean the person is strange. Any time we make a system of classification, someone wonât fit. This exclusion might say more about our need to classify people than about them.
Baldness isnât just physical
Itâs also performative. Labels describe how we live. Even when they describe reality, theyâre about perceptions and performances. How we live interprets who we are.
When labels donât feel right
She had two moms, and she didnât like the word âstraightâ. If we have a stake in a shared outcome, we might avoid declaring how weâre different and separate from others, especially to imply our superiority.
People have been mad about âcisgenderâ since at least 2007
If someone wants a world where no one is marked as cis, they must simultaneously fight for a world where no one is marked as trans.