Amateur: Finding Joy and Power in Being a Trans Person
October 18, 2018
"If I pay attention, happiness because of and not despite my trans status is embedded into every aspect of my life."
Joy in a marginalized body has always been a form of resistance entwined with the politics of queerness. After all, Pride, before its corporate takeover, was a parade to celebrate the anniversary of a riot. Today, because of the internet and the ubiquity of social media, queer people of all gender identities have access to a range of images and stories of trans people. For years now, we’ve had earth angel Laverne Cox telling us and everyone who will listen that #transisbeautiful. We’ve got Janet Mock making history as a director and writer on FX’s Pose, which is fundamentally a show that repositions trans bodies as glamorous, regardless of the brutality that surrounds us. We are taking back the narrative that has defined us in the collective imagination for decades now: Sad, tragic, deceptive, and (often in the case of trans men) invisible. And, mostly, we are doing that with our humanity, and our joy.
https://www.them.us/story/amateur-finding-trans-joy
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