emily

top surgery recovery has given me a lot of time to think, which is both epic and not. Been thinking a lot about past selves, past experiences, and how they all led up to me being the person I am today. I dont like the “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric because I think it removes the agency for trans people to self-determination of our identities, nor do I like trans identities to be reduced to our bodies. I was that little girl, and I am not ashamed of her, nor was she ever my enemy. We do not have to reject our past selves to validated in our current selves, and I will continue to cherish the little girl in my head because she helped me become the person I am now <3

Here is a picture of our Democratic mayor at a protest against the police murder of George Floyd last summer (he is the one everyone is flipping off and screaming at):

Here is our Democratic governor threatening to use the “largest police presence in Minnesota history” against anyone who dares violate the 7 PM curfew to protest against the police murder of Daunte Wright a few days ago:

My totally unscientific explanation of why I quit everything I start and how everything gets too overwhelming.