Questão 20

O post a seguir foi retirado da rede social de ALOK, artista cujos trabalhos abordam questões de gênero e identidade. No post, a argumentação é articulada a partir dos diferentes sentidos das palavras My first word was irony. Growing up a boy, they called me too feminine. When I finally claimed femininity as my own, they called me a man. These are grammar lessons: some of us are only allowed to be thought, never to think. When they insist that our pronouns violate grammar to some degree, they are right. Grammar is less about the mechanics of language, more the monopoly of it. It´s not just about who can speak, but who gets to speak. He who controls the word controls the world. What they mean is: don´t object to remaining object. You are not a subject (unless you subject yourself to me). Subject. Predicate. Power. What this means is that we could both launch the same words and they would still land in different places. I could spend the rest of my life articulating every detail, every grain, every follicle. And still they would not understand. Because of what I look like. No: because of what they feel about what I look like. This is what it feels like to be brown, trans, femme, and alive. alokvmenon • Follow

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