the truth is, i know how to fight. i know how to resist. i know how to do that work.

i just.... really hoped, for a minute there, that i'd get to be something else. that i'd get to do something else.

that my whole life wouldn't be about fighting, because i'm trans.

Your project isn't "silly" anyway. I don't care if it's a video essay on 80's comics, art from your Armored Core 6 coffee shop AU, or your erotic space plant story.

Someone out there is going to love what you're working on. It's going to make their day. It's going to remind them they're not alone.

I've talked to a few folks this morning who were talking about stopping work on their creative projects. Because it's "not important anymore."

I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.

We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.

there is another way

y'know, friends tease me a lot (in good fun) about how often I talk about eggs and how much I try to talk to people about gender and sexuality and figuring yourself out. I joke but to let you all in on a secret

I never want another tgirl to go through what I did. That's why I do it.

Rachel Pollack's 1995 TransSisters interview reads like it came out yesterday