In my "culture consumed" post just now, I tell the story of reading you Marley's Pride that led to me watching the Philosophy Tube on Social Constructs, and I don't think I misrepresented you, but I didn't run it by you, so apologies if I did, and obviously you should tell me if I did.
I'm not sure that's quite the way I'd have said it, but I think it's reasonably accurate. As someone who has commonly not held a very strong sense of self-identity (what even does that mean?), I often get frustrated with framings of difference in gender or sexuality as, "Who you know you are inside." Like, who I know I am inside is meat sack, filled with breath and a little lightning storm; that is not very helpful in picking pronouns.
I haven't thought hard about a better framing for children's books, so I guess this I okay. But it's definitely the way people like me go half their lives knowing about the existence of trans people but not actually concluding they're trans. So it would be nice if something better comes along that is still appropriately framed for children.
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Date: 2024-08-02 05:49 pm (UTC)Elizabeth in DMs (for context):
I'm not sure that's quite the way I'd have said it, but I think it's reasonably accurate. As someone who has commonly not held a very strong sense of self-identity (what even does that mean?), I often get frustrated with framings of difference in gender or sexuality as, "Who you know you are inside." Like, who I know I am inside is meat sack, filled with breath and a little lightning storm; that is not very helpful in picking pronouns.
I haven't thought hard about a better framing for children's books, so I guess this I okay. But it's definitely the way people like me go half their lives knowing about the existence of trans people but not actually concluding they're trans. So it would be nice if something better comes along that is still appropriately framed for children.