To all my Tomboys and Sissies

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To all my Tomboys and Sissies
To all my Tomboys and Sissies

Context:

A lot of shitty things are happening due to the health crisis in the world. A lot of shitty things are happening for other obvious and less obvious reasons, as well. It’s generally a shittier time than most recent times, which is saying something.

This will be of little consolation to me, and I’m guessing absolutely no consolation to you. Like many of us, I’ve spent most of my years poorly kowtowing to the policing of my physical and personal expression by peers, family, teachers, strangers... mostly myself; people who felt it was their place to tell me at any given moment how I was failing at presenting as the person they expected me to be.

That never ends for any of us, you know? The social policing. We never stop keeping ourselves and each other in line. It is hard to know which expressions are organic and which are programmed. My cousin in Nigeria once showed me her hairy legs, hair as thick as the hair on my head, and she just shrugged. “The men here, they don’t care.” I remembered my 8th grade lab partner telling me that I should shave my arms.

Since I’ve been hiding my face under a mask in public (get it? lulz), and only seeing my family, otherwise, I haven’t felt the need to regularly yank hairs out of my neck and chin and brow and upper lip and cheeks and nose and chest and tits. I'm not attempting to equate my scraggly "beard" with the day-to-day discrimination, oppression, and potential violence faced by trans individuals, or any of my non-conforming brethren, I'm just seeing how long these things can grow under this lovely only-so-many-fucks-to-give sun.

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Taken on: June 19, 2020
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