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Title: On the receiving end of horizontal violence
Post by: Shana A on September 02, 2011, 09:18:55 AM
Post by: Shana A on September 02, 2011, 09:18:55 AM
On the receiving end of horizontal violence
Posted by LGBT Weekly
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen
http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/ (http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/)
Back in 1999, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris stated the following in a sermon commemorating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church: "Let there be peace among us, and let us not be instruments of our own oppression."
Well, the trans community has a habit of eating its own to the point of becoming instruments of our own oppression. We engage in horizontal violence of the spirit without second thought.
Posted by LGBT Weekly
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen
http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/ (http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/)
Back in 1999, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris stated the following in a sermon commemorating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church: "Let there be peace among us, and let us not be instruments of our own oppression."
Well, the trans community has a habit of eating its own to the point of becoming instruments of our own oppression. We engage in horizontal violence of the spirit without second thought.