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Yeah :/ I been having those adjacent thoughts as well and, am a little sheepish abt this, perhaps it says something of that flattening that I'm not confident enough of my own enby-ness as a nonbinary woman (or exactly super out) to speak of to that side of things more explicitly.
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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I just posted "on identity, performing marginalisations and the limitations #ownvoices; or why I can't just repeat my uncle's favourite joke about eating dogs"
link.medium.com/OYULTq5Zz3
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Was having an adjacent discussion yesterday with friends regarding trans narratives. Particularly the way we self police and flatten out the messiness of gender because we don’t want to give ammo to anti-lgbt jerks. How that eliminates space for different narratives too.
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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But like I've been having the thoughts about chinese memoirs for over a decade and gender thoughts for far less, so.... I don't feel my own tentativeness is wholly unreasonable in a must get over myself now kind of way.
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Alex Acks
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Alex Acks
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... own identity because I don’t have as many conversations to rely on. And I definitely feel like nonbinary identities have even less exploration, so that in turn makes it harder, because we’re trying to find that space while being so aware of being watched.
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Jeannette Ng 吳志麗
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*nodding vigorously*
Vocab is an odd one as well since I've become aware of how words get redefined and mainstreamed and their controversial edges sanded off. The idea that at one point androgyny was closer to what we might term an identity rather just an aesthetic blew my mind
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I think it’s a symptom, tbh. A little bit of the fallout for me from the That Story Discourse was the realization that I have never really felt seen or connected to any of the trans stories I’ve read before. So that contributes to the lack of vocabulary and lack of confidence...
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