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kaberett ([personal profile] kaberett) wrote2012-10-12 12:20 pm
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Writing elsewhere

Every day of my life is a transformative work: an essay about my relationship with my body, and how coming to terms with being trans* and coming to terms with being disabled have changed it - and about the parallels I feel between those experiences.

It is also navel-gazey as all get-out ;)
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[personal profile] naath 2012-10-12 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ta, interesting essay.
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[personal profile] naath 2012-10-14 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you have identified an Important Thing - the way you (also others) represent yourself in a shifting way based on both a shifting internal wossname and external factors and the lack of tuits to bash people in the head for getting it wrong again (people suck).

A lot of the external factors suck (stupid stairs); but even in a world without external suck you still have the internal changes going on. It's clearly unreasonable to expect people to conform to some ideal notion of whatever-it-is-they-are, although better than expecting all people to conform to the same thing it's really not all the way there yet.