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Is the social and financial capital you’re acquiring make you feel better about being a hypocrite complicit in th… — Not at all. But I feel worse about my complicity in settler law separate from its carceral aspects, as most of my… curiouscat.qa/ButNotTheCity/…

I have complex but ultimately deeply ambivalent feelings about the law and being in the field. Perhaps one of the reasons why so much of my work ends up being in bioethics and trans health instead. I’m constantly asking myself if being here is making things worse or better.

I doubt I would be in law had I transitioned before university. I finished my degree because I was most of the way through. And I enjoy, from a strategic standpoint, the ability to be taken more seriously when I say law is oppressive bullshit—which comes with the degree.

But I probably would’ve done something else. I don’t know what though—so few fields aren’t deeply fucked.