Nicola Helle 😈🏳️⚧️😈
On Saturday, I voted.
I found it a rather different experience from what I had encountered in the past. As such, I felt the act, the decisions, the reasoning behind all of it, worthy of a bit of analysis. Why do I vote the way I do? And why does this one feel so consequential?
All of this can be found in my most recent entry to Crashing the Gates, "Silence Equals Death".
And, if you can, don't forget to vote!
Kit Rhett Aultman
@NicolaElle The digression into kintsugi was of note to me. I am a transgender student of Japanese tea ceremony, which is the practical art most closely associated with kintsugi, so I'm amused to see kintsugi being adopted as a trans symbol.
I also took a personal symbol from tea ceremony. Specifically, we have folklore of a kitsune becoming a student of Sotan, an early head of the tradition. So I have a tattoo of a fox trying to drink tea while keeping their tail tucked in their kimono.
Kit Rhett Aultman
@NicolaElle There was a point at "peak kintsugi" when (allegedly) some people were smashing their bowls just to get them fixed and show them off.
For me, that's the bigger lesson
in kintsugi, which is that "ugly" and "beautiful" are not facts but judgments; the bowl boldly shows its history of having walked through both of those judgments. But the bowl just...is itself.
To be any kind of trans is to likewise choose to walk through these worlds of judgment and see them for what they are.
Nicola Helle 😈🏳️⚧️😈
@roadriverrail Oh, that sounds so cute!
And Kintsugi is so representative of us. We break, only to reform ourselves far more beautiful than before, with the very cracks that formed our brokenness being used to shine.
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