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alexseanchai) wrote2014-05-20 10:50 am
alexseanchai) wrote2014-05-20 10:50 am
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100 college things 66
Yes, I want to see more poems, more paintings [by trans artists]. But I also want to try new recipes that use mangoes. I want homemade beer. I want to see ornithologists and physicists and piano tuners and a trans-identified expert in cultivating bonsai trees. One of these days there is going to be a transgender astronaut, a transgender president, a transgender romantic lead in a Hollywood blockbuster movie.—Ryka Aoki, "To Consecrate this Night with Life", Seasonal Velocities
Ryka Aoki is a damned optimist. </bitter>
(tw if you want to read the source: the essay is subtitled "Keynote Address, 2009 Transgender Day of Remembrance" and therefore talks about violent murder (also rape) of trans people, and other works in the book deal with childhood sexual abuse, and I think I may be missing one sorry)