HeyJaredIn Transition
A thoughtful and analytical review of life as an American transgender woman; a discussion through the critical lens of ethics, LGBT+ issues, reflection, and academia.
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In The Sunlight and Out of the Cave (opens the original)
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PART 1: FANFARE, AND THE REJECTION OF TRUTHWe begin with Orlando1, and the blasting trumpets. The three, Lady Purity, Lady Chastity, and Lady Modesty, all enter with intent to keep what is happening hidden away. And then the trumpeters drive them away. “The Truth!” Orlando yells, as he wakes and stands. He has no choice but to confess: he was a woman. Woolf’s novel is a satiric commentary of English literatu
MY PATH IS HAZY (opens the original)
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THE EQUALITY OF A HARD LIFELet’s spend a moment talking about me. Madeleine L’Engle wrote that one must “know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” This platitude—like so many others—is a claim typically serving as a metaphor (often seen within religious texts): suffering becomes the price of perception, and that the prerequisite for valuing joy comes from pain. I reject this, as it implies that the darker the experience one has, the brighter the joy they may achieve afterwards. <p
Even the Forge Changes Over Time (opens the original)
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Let us consider that the made self is not inherited; rather, it is constructed over time. It is violent in nature inasmuch as it refuses to accept the boundary of expectation (a function of society). Personality is not genetic; it is nurture. Sartre once argued that we are condemned to be free—an adage describing the plight of choice and the pain of result. But freedom is not the absence of constraint. Constraint is a function of denial—and in the transgender woman’s experience, this is daily li
The Lightness of being Transgender (opens the original)
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This is part-two of the argument: A Trans Woman’s Argument for Not Looking DownSISYPHUS WAS NEVER LIGHTFriedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science §341, “The Heaviest Weight,” poses a thought experiment tangentially applicable to the experience of being a transgender woman in the United States. Nietzsche’s proposal is this: a demon visits you in your loneliest hour and tells you that you will have to live this exact life again—
A Trans Woman's Argument for Not Looking Down (opens the original)
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I am gently returning to Substack. For your consideration: A MARRIAGE OF MYTH AND SCIENCE<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="728" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qUHe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsu
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