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"
Without examples, without models
I began to believe voices in my head
That I was a, a freak, that I am broken
That there is something wrong with me
That I will never be lovable

Years later I find the courage to admit that I am transgender
And that this does not mean that I am unlovable

So if this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds, previously unimaginable
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- Lana Wachowski HRC Visibility Award speech

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Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award

HRC President Chad Griffin presents director and producer Lana Wachowski with the HRC Visibility Award at the 2012 HRC San Francisco Gala. Lana speaks of her...

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dansup @dansup@mastodon.social
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"And yet here was this person like me murdered by ignorance, by prejudice, murdered by intolerance. It seemed in direct inverse proportion to the kind of acceptance my, of my family. Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that would prove that the world is different from the way that they want to see it.

Invisibility is indivisible from visibility.

For the transgender this is not simply a philosophical conundrum.

It can be the difference between life and death."

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