When a marginalized group is asked for peaceful protesting, what is really being asked is for them to “protest” in a way that those with privilege can actively and happily ignore.
Twenty-One Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual by Riki Anne Wilchins.
The fact that I am the only transsexual you know only emphasizes that…we are secretly plotting to take over the planet Earth, and infiltrating your prevailing nontranssexual culture is just our first step
In TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 3, volume 1. 1994.
Cuba continues to have the rest of the world GAGGING!
#WorldAIDSDay
Damn, I thought the article was gonna say they made some new crazy drug to combat hiv but Cuba literally just provided good care to expecting parents and gave them the knowledge and resources they needed to prevent infection and it worked. Not just for hiv, but for syphilis, too.
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
Look at God! LOOK AT THE PEOPLE! Y’all brought Cyntoia Brown home. There’s still so much work to do, but I’m proud af of every single one of you that took action, no matter how big or small. #allpowertothepeople
