You’re talking about narrative control, you ain’t gonna be controlling the narrative on your lonesome. You can’t work with the people who are being transphobic at a statue? Work with the people who can. Heck, work with the people who can push the narrative away from the transphobia. Or even just work with the people working to build the frameworks for getting better narratives out in people’s faces. Bottom line, work with people.
You don’t know who’s working to do those things? Work to figure out what should be done and who is doing things, and–this is the important part–get some people to help you do those figure out those whats and the whos. There is so much work to be done, and so much of that work is just figuring out what needs to happen and when and where it that need is. Every org complains about capacity, always, because there is always more to be done.
We spend far too much time yelling at each other for being complicit in the nothing being done about this, and that only serves to suck our time and energy away from working together to figure out how to unfuck this.
If someone thinks scrutinizing the gender normativity of a statue from France made in the 1800s is novel, I do not have the power to redeem them.
You’re talking about narrative control, you ain’t gonna be controlling the narrative on your lonesome. You can’t work with the people who are being transphobic at a statue? Work with the people who can. Heck, work with the people who can push the narrative away from the transphobia. Or even just work with the people working to build the frameworks for getting better narratives out in people’s faces. Bottom line, work with people.
You don’t know who’s working to do those things? Work to figure out what should be done and who is doing things, and–this is the important part–get some people to help you do those figure out those whats and the whos. There is so much work to be done, and so much of that work is just figuring out what needs to happen and when and where it that need is. Every org complains about capacity, always, because there is always more to be done.
We spend far too much time yelling at each other for being complicit in the nothing being done about this, and that only serves to suck our time and energy away from working together to figure out how to unfuck this.