To tell Caitlyn’s story with care is to demand justice for trans people.
We must not tell Caitlyn’s story in a vacuum that erases the history of trans organizing, mobilizing, and celebrity of the many trans women who came before her and made her Vanity Fair cover possible. Janet. Laverne. Major. Sylvia. Marsha.
We must not exclaim that Caitlyn looks “fabulous” without interrogating our standards for which trans people get to grace the covers of magazines and all the while continuing to keep the health care that brings life to trans people out of reach.
We must not celebrate Caitlyn without mourning Islan, Lamia, Penny, and the hundreds of other trans women, mostly of color, we have lost to violence. This violence isn’t just at the hands of hateful partners or strangers, but violence in the arms of hateful and exclusionary systems.
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I wish Everyone would use DISQUS →
I don’t always want to reblog a post and I certainly don’t always like a post. However, there are posts that resonate with me, stirs an emotion, strikes a chord, or disgusts me and I may have an opinion or some statement to make. Well, DISQUS is free and it enables basic commenting with some other features.
How do I add comments to my blog?
All of Tumblr’s featured themes let you easily install Disqus comments via the Customize page.
Would be nice to be able to have a discussion on a single post without having to include a question mark to allow people to reply. Anyone can reblog or click like but “how do you really feel?”
I just thought I’d put it out there. I installed it on my blog (it was quite simple)