It's Not Easy Peeing 'T': Trans Activists Strive for Safety and Equality

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It's Not Easy Peeing 'T': Trans Activists Strive for Safety and Equality

http://gapersblock.com/ac/2011/06/22/its-not-easy-peeing-t-trans-activists-strive-for-safety-and-equality/
6/22/11
Joseph Erbentraut.

When violence goes viral, as happened most notably in some of the raw video footage depicting and sharing with the world the outpouring of protests during the Middle East's Arab Spring earlier this year, it can be difficult to accept the images we see and the sounds we hear as reality. Our mind chooses to resist the Hollywood tendency to place ourselves in the lead "character's" shoes and we distance ourselves from those living another life, speaking a different language and living in a foreign land. We retweet and move on to the next slice of scandal, society or, if we're lucky, substance amongst the digital deluge.