Jeremiah 3:23 (NKJV) -
Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills,
And from the multitude of mountains;
Truly, in the LORD our God
Is the salvation of Israel.
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We're so #busy #watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take #time to #enjoy where we are. 🥰 #Hills #hils #hillsview #mandaragiri #mandaragiritemple #mandaragirihill #bangalore (at Mandaragiri Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch6ulL3puT9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Chap 7 #knights #sunlight #hils #holylands #yyccomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CeCjOJcJYu3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Babe, are you okay? All of your fics lately have been about your blorbo getting a bowl of soup and good night's sleep.
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[“A trans gaze can be an incredibly productive historiographical tool. A trans gaze is what allows us to look at a case of historical gender nonconformity and remain open to the full spectrum of possibilities it represents. A trans gaze is what allows us to read about an individual wearing a mixture of male- and female-coded clothing, and ask, ‘But what did that feel like?’ A trans gaze is what allows us to accept and take seriously the fact that a person’s gender can be a spiritual or sexual experience, in a way we can’t empathise with – or, indeed, that what looks like gender sometimes isn’t at all – because we know first-hand how it feels when people don’t take seriously how we articulate our selves. This is the gaze that I hope will continue to transform the way we think about the past.
The simple precept of knowing people on their own terms can transform more than history; it also has the power to liberate us in the present. I’ve shown throughout this book that the way we think about gender today is not natural or traditional but constructed and contingent; gender has always been open to disruption and challenge. This in itself is an important, potentially transformative realisation. But imagine if, alongside this, we could simply trust people to know their gendered selves – without prior assumptions, without constraining frameworks, without structures of assessment or judgement. When Faye argues that ‘The liberation of trans people would improve the lives of everyone in our society’; when Feinberg argues that ‘when [trans] lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society’; this, I think, is key to what they mean.
People often ask me if I think we should aim for a future without gender, and while I usually feel a tinge of frustration at this kind of speculative enquiry (maybe we should, but we have gender now, so how do we pursue trans liberation in this society?), I always say that while the experience of having a gender is important to many people, there are lots of things about institutionalised, state-sanctioned gender that we could certainly do without. As Malatino puts it, ‘There are genders and there is Gender and I believe we can have the former without the latter’]
kit heyam, from before we were trans: a new history of gender, 2022
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