“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

Seriously, I don't care how many skills I pick up. I don't care how much you don't think you could do what I do. If I'm anything but a regular ass person in your mind, you're dehumanizing me.

I will continue to do my best. I will continue to impress. But please understand

This is survival for me.

I CAN'T get by being average. I CAN'T get by smoking weed and drinking beer and hanging out. There's not a job I've ever had that didn't treat me like a little kid because I'm short and cute. The engineering world either infantilizes me or others me. And in the world of art I'm still too obscure and too female and too black and too transgender to just slide into the mainstream no matter HOW good my books are.

If I'm going to get there I need as much help as I can fucking get, and that's never gonna happen if you think I'm some kind of superhuman goddess or you're scared of me

I'm not above

I'm not below

I'm beside you. We're all just people trying to make it here. Everything I do is out of a desperate need for *survival*

I hope yall don't think I'm playing.

I'm TRYING to tell you