
Anya [she/her]
Yes, it is fucked, but it’s absolutely the case - especially in places that don’t have informed consent where access to hormone treatment is harder to get. In my country, I and many other people have had to lie repeatedly to doctors in order to fit their perfect image of a trans woman - I imagine wanting to continue using he/him pronouns would be a huge red flag for these doctors.
Of all the things I expected to see today, Joe Rogan converting to Esoteric Nazism was not one of them.
I wonder why Mali’s official language is French when less than 10,000 inhabitants speak it as a first language. Truly a mystery.
I hate the description “world music” to describe basically everything non-Western, it feels intensely reductive to lump in, say, Oumou Sangaré or Fela Kuti with shit like Enya.
It’s just a garbage marketing term to tell white people that this music is “exotic”.