Sisterhood in Silence
Quinnae Moongazer
December 28, 2011
http://quinnae.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/sisterhood-in-silence/ (http://quinnae.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/sisterhood-in-silence/)
Political questions- those nagging spectres both august and utterly debauched- linger and haunt if you take up the charge to be a citizen. Not just a citizen of a given country in some formalistic, legal sense, but a citizen in the sense of being a self-conscious member of a society (preferably without borders) with a sense of obligation to others. The tests of this political citizenship are always dictated to you by those bedevilling questions.
One question that I've run from, that I have leapt breathlessly through intellectual halls of mirrors to avoid is this one that I will now stare in its smiling face:
Am I Breanna Manning?
Global Comment editor, theologian, and trans activist Emily Manuel recently spoke to the media silence and leftist silence around the fact that "Bradley Manning" may very well be Breanna, a trans woman that the US Government arrested before she had a chance to transition and claim her identity more publicly.