I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.
this made me cry, so i have to share it. i can’t tell you how much of this feels like it was about my childhood.
“Some nights, always alone, I go out in stolen makeup and women’s clothes with an ID I found in a lost wallet. I never feel more male than on these nights”
this has been fucking me up for a minute
there is too much that i want to quote here and not enough to convince you that this will be one of, if not the, most important pieces you will read this year.
“I hate that the only effective response I can give to “boys are shit” is “well I’m not a boy.” I feel like I am selling out the boy in baseball pajamas that sat with me on the bed while I tried to figure out which one I was supposed to be, and the boys who I have met and loved from inside my boy suit—who believed they were talking to a boy. I feel like I am burning the history of the naked body that sits on the floor of my shower. The body that went to prom in a boxy tuxedo and coveted the gowns.”
This is so very good.
Highly recommended for everybody to read, and certainly made a lot of things clearer to me. A piece that has me thinking and altering my thoughts.
100% recommend
This has made me seriously reconsider the impact of my own actions and statements. Please, folks, read it.
I feel like I’ve screwed up somehow, after reading this. Or at the very least that I’d be one of those smug feminists if I was there.
I think what I need to remember most is this: there are people In The Closet who have no intent or desire to come out. Maybe if the environment was better–the environment in social justice communities, not just mainstream/ conservative places.
Also: we know it’s shitty to shame a woman based on her appearance and her clothes. We need those same standards for men. It’ll be harder to be quippy, but not being an asshole is more important than quick and easy snark.
(via jackironsides)
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