Perry Zurn is Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author of
I want to tell stories of fatigue from trans life at the Five Colleges. These are hard stories, draining stories. Such fatigue often leads to withdrawal, leaving, or shutting down; sometimes it leads to suicide. There is no saving grace to these stories; no silver lining. But there is an equally true reality. And that is this: we fatigue the system, as much as the system fatigues us. But I also want to think trans fatigue as a third space: a welcome and generative space that offers room for a creativity irreducible to militancy. There is hope here, too.
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