Status Updates From Inappropriation

"Your dad and I want to talk to you," says Ruth, taking Ziggy's hand. "About what's happening inside your body."
"I don't want to talk about it," she says.
"But we do," says Jeff. "We want to know if you feel like a boy, and if there's something more you need to do about it."
::cries::

Ziggy assumes her mother thinks this is a phase and the less attention you give it, the quicker it will die. Which is fine with Ziggy. The less seriously Ruth takes her, the less likely it is Ziggy will be forced into psychotherapy.

"It's hard to explain, but I need it for school."
"They make everyone pay two hundred dollars for a tiny camera?"
"No one else has one. That's why I need it."
Her grandmother looks affronted by Ziggy's obfuscations, but the word transhuman will not be useful to a loopy sex-elf in sheepskin.

Ziggy can see their teacher's mistake. Invoking feminist intersectionality among a group of mostly white private school girls will only send them running back into the subjugating arms of the patriarchy.

Flying to Thailand for a swim seems an aggressive impulsivity that makes Ziggy think her father has a terminal disease or a girlfriend.

"Pardon me", Jacob says. "But is this a Google Earth surveillance session?"
Lex addresses Ziggy. "Was your brother adopted from the nineteenth century?"
"Please, ladies, allow me to show you some of the more current technologies."
They follow Jacob into his room, where he brings up a series of web pages for expensive drones."

Their mother agrees to everything. Making the karaoke video and the status of her marriage feel alarmingly dire.

Ziggy feels alone in a way that makes her think of vacuum cleaners in deep space - something she knows she's misunderstood from physics.