𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

it says, "remember that scene? buffalo bill writhing before a camera the gaze of which labels him grotesque and obscene? that's you."

sometimes, it lands on einhorne from ace ventura.

"everyone finds you disgusting. they find your body putrid and your attempts to disguise your body coercive and evil."

sometimes it lands on the parade of trans bodies trotted out as sideshow acts on various 90s talk shows.

"you're a joke. a sad joke."

i wish that when i was a kid, i'd had @LauraJaneGrace. kate bornstein. sadie switchblade. laverne cox.

i wish i'd had shows and movies with trans people who held their heads high and whom the camera treated with dignity.

i wish those were the images that popped into my broken brain when i was sad about my body and how it moves through the world.