Marginalized Anger
http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=29649/3/10
The first five or six years of Native theatre was angry, which makes a lot of sense. When an oppressed people get their voice back, they will write about the oppression. Tompson Highway likes using the saying, "before the healing can take place, the poison must be exposed." So in my opinion, having been there, that's what was happening during those early years. That poison was being exposed. The oppression was coming out in all these writings. It was all very dark, very angry, very accusatory.
In my community post, I talked about how a lot of trans people have been finding our voices, learning to speak up, learning to describe ourselves in terms that resist cissexism, and talk openly about transphobia and the prejudice and bigotry that we face. And really, we have the tools to express our anger, to focus it, to name our oppressors, and point out all of their flaws and how those flaws hurt us.
