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An old comic i made when thanks to them trailer came out

An old comic i made when thanks to them trailer came out

and there's a very understandable reason this happens - the formation of these sects of activism was to both offer solidarity and comfort for the pain of oppression, and to challenge the systems which inflict it.

the trouble with defining identity through pain is that it does not seek to form or understand a world in which that pain does not exist. that is to say - we SHOULD speak of the ways women suffer under the patriarchy, but someone's womanhood cannot be denied if she does not suffer due to the circumstances of her life or whether we personally as observers can see her suffering.

in the same sense, i think we need to remember as part of our activism, we are seeking a world together where the pains of our oppression do not exist for those that come after us. i want to imagine a world in which trans people do not have to experience the same pains of dysphoria that i did, where they can simply be themselves and have access to the life they feel most comfortable living. i do not want to draw the line in the sand for those that come after me to be 'you have to hurt as much as i did for me to take you seriously'.

I made a little zine!