i want to share this article (by porpentine! a transfem game developer i really like) about the institutional drives of hate mobs against trans women and people of color, even within "alt" and "progressive" and "feminist" spaces, and the world shattering fallout they deal with for the rest of their lives as consequence. (the article is from 2015.)
Hot Allostatic Load by Porpentine on The New Inquiry
I also wanted to highlight this part about making art with a broken body.
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms. Move a single inch and call it a victory. Mold my sexuality toward immobility. Lie here leaking water from my eyes like a statue covered in melting frost. Zero affect. Build like moss grows. Build like crystals harden. Give up. Make your art the merest displacement of molecules at your slightest quiver. Don’t build in spite of the body and fail on their terms, build with the body. Immaculate is boring and impossible. Health based aesthetic.