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it's so depressing that the Attack Helicopter story got pulledPermalink Look on archive.org
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Carmen Maria Machado has ben posting about it today & I basically agree with her take on it @carmenmmachado/1217204875974651904Permalink Look on archive.org
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(context: this astonishing and powerful story archive.is/oXDEt. it's called "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" and it takes that premise literally. It was written by a trans woman. It was pulled at her request earlier today, after some Bad Discourse)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i keep wanting to call this story "difficult & messy", but that's a lie. it's difficult & knotty, but it presents itself so confidently.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i'm thinking about the phenomenon of trans people flattening and erasing their personal histories, fitting them into a conventional narrative, because that's what it can take to convince a doctor that you're really trans, and get access to medical care and legal documentationPermalink Look on archive.org
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and then somewhere down the line, the original memory is gone. politics has moulded it into a particular shape that can accomplish particular goals. one shape from a limited choice of shapes.Look on archive.org
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and i'm not saying that isn't worth the tradeoff! and i'm not saying that sometimes, when there's fierce political opposition to your existence, to your rights, you shouldn't construct your stories to be the strongest version, the best weapon to fight those battles.Permalink Look on archive.org
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but it's just really depressing to watch a story being erased when it doesn't fit the currently acceptable shapesPermalink Look on archive.org