Charles ☭ is now tooting from queer.partyI clicked on a perfectly well meaning and well written thing about how I should "know my rights" and now I feel incredibly anxious.
Look, I can "know my rights" in say, airports to opt out of body scanners that tend to cause problems for trans people.
But, being honest, this is not remotely a good experience. In fact, it has on occasion been dire enough that I exercised my right to wrote a complaint letter.
Yay my rights.
And, indeed, by the time one has to know their rights, a violation has already taken place. The rights are already contingent on whiteness, passability, the mood of the person exercising power over me. Knowing ones rights is a situation of fascism - the rights are at best under threat and at worst fully suspended.
As a middle aged white bloke, I get to do this on easy mode and its still just fucking awful.
Michael T. Richter