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Laverne Cox @Lavernecox
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Twitter this weekend has me in so many thoughts and feelings. Part of resisting patriarchy is also resisting and interrogating homophobia and transphobia. #TransIsBeautiful. If you are attracted to trans folks, that's beautiful. No need to be ashamed of it or shame others for it
Cis men if someone thinks you're gay because you may have something feminine about you (and folks still conflate sexual orientation and gender expression) embrace it especially if you're an artist. We artists cannot be in a space where we are censoring our expression because
When we censor one form of self expression it dims all of our artistic flow. If we can stop imposing and enforcing rigid gendered expectations onto everyone especially cis straight identified men and equating those expectations with sexual orientation and manhood we can begin
To create a culture of true gender equity and begin to have the conversation about ending the culture of gender based violence.
In far too many cases we are not having the right conversations. I try to always ask myself what is the loving empathetic, inclusive approach to a topic. I may make a mistake (we all do). But from a place of love and empathetic I can remain teachable.
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