Hey folks, can anyone recommend some awesome queer authors or historical figures?

Bonus points if they're trans and ofc it'd be best if they're not a :LIB: ; big fan of Leslie Feinberg for example

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I recently came across Susan Stryker's My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage and it really resonated with me.

    CW: There's some descriptions of really vile transphobia and suicide on the first few pages. The essay is also from 1993, so the terminology is a bit outdated at times, but it's still a powerful text. She basically takes all the TERF rhethoric where we're called freaks and monsters and spits it right back in their faces. Here's a choice quote:

    Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.