
“It makes more sense to describe it as being trapped in a museum because my body belongs to me and I love it, but the thing I'm trapped in someone else built and i can't find the door.”
― trans girl suicide museum
― trans girl suicide museum
“If we lived in a culture with a higher tolerance for ambiguity, rather than obsession with measurement, fixed identity, and knowability, transition wouldn't be so confounding to people, and the process might be more normal. Epistemologically, we are anal retentive, Not rigorous, just stressed out. We need to know what a trans girl is. What are you, trans people get asked. Where are you from, people of color get asked. White supremacist capitalism wants to make a map of everything and then monetize the ways that things move around on the map. Basically literally, the museum.”
― trans girl suicide museum
― trans girl suicide museum
“Maybe it's just like why k is better when you can't buy it at CVS, because there's some part of transness that cracks of fucks with all these cultural norms I'm talking about, and this current cultural moment of trans visibility is probably actually about securing transness in a sack of amber and declawing it and making it legible (the way gay culture has been ripped from the anonymity of the dark bathhouse and into the stagelighting of the reality show...lots of people have critiqued this one.)”
― trans girl suicide museum
― trans girl suicide museum
“I know trans people are supposed to get to be trans no matter how they look or present. This is why the pronouns ritual is supposed to be important, to let you introduce yourself without anyone's assumption interfering with your wish. But I also know that hearing someone's pronouns doesn't make a cis person witness their gender. And this is part of the trauma. As Cyrus told me so long ago, gender is constituted in part by what's reflected back to you, and you don't get to instantiate the exact reflection you want just by saying your pronouns. That's why I'm having my face cut open.”
― trans girl suicide museum
― trans girl suicide museum
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