The Audacity.

The Audacity.

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The Audacity.
The Audacity.
Elders

Elders

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Roxane Gay
Mar 05, 2021
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In Torrey Peter’s debut novel Detransition, Baby, Ames says, transfolk are a “lost generation. We have no elders, no stable groups, no one to teach us to countenance pain.” I was reminded that the queer community and the trans community especially, are communities without many elders. We are a community of people who often have to parent ourselves when …

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