Thread by @krisknisely

Reading, learning, & thinking more about the past of where I am today, before Cass & Erique's panel in ~1 hour. Thankful that Florence started talking about this article today: Stryker, S. (2020). Institutionalizing Trans* Studies at the University of Arizona. TSQ, 7(3), 354-366.

https://twitter.com/ButNotTheCity/status/1326936204147875844

Here's a link to the aforementioned panel info, if you haven't seen it yet! (I'm really looking forward to this one!)

https://twitter.com/er_ique/status/1324361278442360832?s=20

I am no media scholar. I have nothing insightful to add to all of the beautiful things that are happening in this panel r.n., but I am grateful to be here for this. [Image below is a clip from Julian Kevon Glover's work, which I am feeling fortunately to see for the first time.]

"I know, I've lived this life all of my life. I don't need to be reminded at every moment that my life is in peril [...] We actually have a lot to say about living." -Julian Kevon Glover speaking on Black trans lives and the over-emphasis on questions of life & death.

Hitting on the evergreen theme echoed by many on this panel and that @trans_killjoy has articulated so clearly: "we may be from oppression, but are not solely constituted of oppression,” (Nicolazzo, 2019, p. 123).

@er_ique "we're not just people who are dying every day, but we are people who are living" - Discussing the joy in putting together this panel and in sharing this space and this work of representing the fullness, beauty, and deep value of trans people

@cassius_a picks up on Erique's comments to talk about "Recognition as a form of filling up the self when the self is being depleted [..sometimes...] taking up the form of actual sustenance" and about "not extracting more from ourselves to give to them [i.e. institutions

of cultural production]. This entails "resisting the imperative to perform a certain form of transness for other people's benefit [...] I'm just so pleased to see that trans people are turning away from that imperative]"

Cassius brings this panel to a slow close, reflecting the over all theme of much of what was said today "so how do we begin to produce something that will resist that imperative to give to others and actually give us sustenance"

Forgive me for any typos in trying to capture a few of the many brilliant and poignant remarks made today. Thank you to @er_ique and to Cassius (*correction from my first Tweet typo!) @cassius_a for organizing this event and to all of the panelists! Was wonderful to listen.