Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I spend a lot of time thinking about stories and storytelling. I think about how much I long for happy stories. For hopeful stories. Not as some kind of opiate, but because I believe that seeing ourselves as heroes changes how we move through the world.

"I want transgender stories about coming out, about transitioning, about falling in love and out of love, about being parents, about being workers, about being adventurers. I want trans stories where being transgender isn't the focus (but it's still there). I want transgender stories where we have jobs and loves and families. I want flawed transgender heroes. I want transgender heroes! I want transgender stories where no one dies. I want transgender stories of triumph. I want transgender stories about it all.

"And I want us to tell these stories. I want to read stories by transgender people about our own lives and communities. I want these stories to focus on our experiences and our perspectives and to be told from our point of view. I want us to tell our stories for ourselves; not to educate or inspire cisgender people but to celebrate the richness of our own experience."

-- Fr. Shannon Kearns (shannontlkearns), "Transgender People Must Survive", 2020-07-09

[This coming Thursday, 2022-03-31, is the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility.]