Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
I have a trend of my own.
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
My body gets weak without truth.
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.