Exist Without Approval. Linocut print.
A reminder. While the attempt to erase the recognition of trans people legislatively and linguistically is absolutely one of the steps to set the groundwork of genocide, and we must be vigilant to that fact, it's important to remember: no executive order or legislation can erase us. Trans people have existed for centuries, millennia, far longer than any of these small-minded men, longer than the country itself. We will not be erased. They canβt take our knowledge of ourselves from us. With or without their approval, we will grow and thrive, whether from gardens or sidewalk cracks. They can stop us just as well as they can capture every wisp of a dandelion seed from the sky, which is to say: they canβt.
