I am so proud of who've you've been and who you are today. Your compassion, intelligence, activism, and ability to educate are a gift to all of us. I know that we all shoulder responsibility to educate ourselves, too, but I appreciate your guidance and insights. Did I mention I love your sense of humor, too?! As your mom I may be a teeny bit biased, but mostly I feel pride and so lucky to know you as amazing human. Keep growing - it will benefit the world! I love you!
Thank you for writing and sharing this. It's amazing to me to consider I've known you almost the entire time you've been out. And I have . . . hmm, how to put it. . . a really deep-seated admiration for both who you've been and who you've become (and who you're becoming). I don't mean that in an inspo porn way - I just mean I've seen up close how hard some of this has been, and it takes a considerable amount of intestinal fortitude to get to where you are.
You'll perhaps enjoy this - organically, the other day, in this term's iteration of the history of gender and sexuality class, we got to a point of questioning whether anyone is genuinely "cis". It came out of a discussion of an essay by Jen Manion reflecting on teaching about female husbands, and I had a very clear moment of thinking "Ai would love that we got here." It's not an end point, but I love that this whole class of students is taking apart queerness with such energy and drive and asking these kinds of questions. Goodness knows where we'll be by term's end.
I am so proud of who've you've been and who you are today. Your compassion, intelligence, activism, and ability to educate are a gift to all of us. I know that we all shoulder responsibility to educate ourselves, too, but I appreciate your guidance and insights. Did I mention I love your sense of humor, too?! As your mom I may be a teeny bit biased, but mostly I feel pride and so lucky to know you as amazing human. Keep growing - it will benefit the world! I love you!
Thank you for writing and sharing this. It's amazing to me to consider I've known you almost the entire time you've been out. And I have . . . hmm, how to put it. . . a really deep-seated admiration for both who you've been and who you've become (and who you're becoming). I don't mean that in an inspo porn way - I just mean I've seen up close how hard some of this has been, and it takes a considerable amount of intestinal fortitude to get to where you are.
You'll perhaps enjoy this - organically, the other day, in this term's iteration of the history of gender and sexuality class, we got to a point of questioning whether anyone is genuinely "cis". It came out of a discussion of an essay by Jen Manion reflecting on teaching about female husbands, and I had a very clear moment of thinking "Ai would love that we got here." It's not an end point, but I love that this whole class of students is taking apart queerness with such energy and drive and asking these kinds of questions. Goodness knows where we'll be by term's end.