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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.
A surgeon for WWI and WWII vets also helped a trans man
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris. Harold Gillies “never shied away from a surgical challenge ,” Fitzharris writes. Gillies agreed to perform phalloplasty for a trans man in the late 1940s.
Trans kids are found in history, too
Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson. Adults should acknowledge that ‘trans childhood is a happy and desired form .’ It’s not a new phenomenon. It’s ‘richly, beautifully historical.’
Did lady pirates button their shirts?
Yes. Art you may have seen to the contrary wasn’t realistic. Just because you’ve seen a naked image of a trans person doesn’t mean trans people walk around naked. Pirates too were motivated to button their shirts.
Liberation projects, art appreciation, and perceptions of the past
From my June 2024 reading list. The bird has flown, but the stone has not yet been thrown. Perhaps in the future it will come to mean something.
Is it about time, bodies, or both?
‘Trans Talmud’ by Max K. Strassfeld. Is this a question about time —what we think we know about the past and future? Or is it about bodies —how we sexually classify them? Or both?
‘Overawed by the marvel’ of trans
A new miniprayerbook. When we sanctify something, it changes. I think Heschel would understand and would like to continue to live and change and cast and reflect light.