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[–] irdc@derp.foo 1 points 1 year ago

This theme of societal rejection and the monstrosity it confers was also noted by trans theorist Susan Stryker in her famous essay.

Favourite passage:

Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fahrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

A rich novel indeed.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real monster is the friends we made along the way

[–] theJWPHTER88@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Or rather, as what the commenter mused on there, society itself, perpetuating its own current vicious Cycle, airing their own Dirty Laundry...