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Impossibility I Represent: A poem of transgender persistence
With a nod to 3,100 mostly anti-trans bots. Thank you, bots, for giving me this poem. From your unsubstantiated positions and your occasionally rhythmic words, I’ve forged this.
Change your thoughts. Go forth! Change our world
20th-century U.S. preachers on anti-fundamentalism and the law of attraction. Let’s embrace our own growth as individuals and pay attention to how our cultures are growing too, so our own lives might be well-lived.
We’ll always have stories
Robots may someday have more rights than people, but I doubt they’ll experience stories at greater depth. Stories of Great Depth are knit collectively to express what we don’t know and don’t say, stretching from before our births to after our deaths.
People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to 🏳️⚧ ️trans Kansans’ 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.
We need to talk about the Heritage Foundation ‘enchilada’
If you’re trans, lesbian, gay, bi, or a woman, you’re not safe from these people. The version of the USA that the Heritage Foundation wants is governed by whiteness and by Christian authority. Don’t let them do this to people of any age.
Beast, in or out of a net
Art by Tucker Lieberman. Everything moves in the twilight: the beast, the net, the Moon, the Earth it orbits, you. Nothing dances in the same place twice.
Political meaning is not only ‘what happened’ but how we’ll change it
It’s bad, but we can’t lose hope, which means we must aspire. A binary allows us to say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ even as we seek to dissolve the questions. Asking new questions is part of envisioning a radically new future.