Jun 17, 2024
perhaps I should just come out (haha) and admit that the reason that Nevada absorbed me so utterly when I read it earlier this year is because it depicts the strange doublethink that occurs when you know (somewhere) that you are trans but you don’t know what to do with that information so you just repress the shit out of it.
#the brain fog seems to be a common feature across trans experience#jules gill peterson wrote a substack article where she argues that the brain fog is a protective measure against transphobia#(specifically transmisogyny)#and that in a sense it is a positive#and I understand her argument but I hate it here lmao#I hate the fog it’s been inside me since I was a teenager#ugh who needs to hear whinging from the closeted anyway#idk ramblings