In the book Field Guide to a Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature, which I am currently reading, the authors theorize a category of nature that they label “feral.” Feral nature, as they describe it, is distinct from what we typically think of as “the natural world” because it exists, in part, due to human engineering efforts. In their words, it is “the state of nonhuman beings engaged with human projects, but not in the way the makers of those projects designed.” They expand: Witho...| 2024 on Winston Hearn (the third)
Trans people of all ages deserve a world where their identities are validated and celebrated. A world where healthcare is obtainable, is not surrounded by a bunch of paternalistic, insulting concern and questioning. A world where they are understood to be the experts on their bodies and their identities, and the rest of us are respectfully curious and celebratory. A world where trans joy flourishes everywhere.| Winston Hearn (the third)