Tilly Bridges

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

one super cool thing you could do to make the world a better place forever would be to stop assuming someone’s gender based on appearance, voice, or… anything else

okay good talk

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

Jul 15, 2023 at 3:56pmMetatext
Show threadBecJul 17, 2023
@tillybridges I’m a trans masc agender person, and this is still so hard for me. Just like intrinsic racism, the default of “dark is bad and light is good” requires constant mental battle. My chosen family is black, and yet I treat black folk differently in my subconscious. Likewise, from childhood I was trained to interpret gender in only the binary. It’s a hard road to work through, but I’m glad to be on it.
Show threadTilly BridgesJul 17, 2023
@OhBatCat yep, our society loves to imprint these implicit biases into us, helps uphold the white supremacist patriarchy. it’s a lot of conscious work and effort to root it out, but it must be done.