Stop advocating for trans people by referring to us as canaries in the coal mine.
The whole point of the canary is that it's an acceptable sacrifice to protect the people who actually matter.
We are not a *warning sign*. We are real people. Our lives and rights matter in and of themselves.
The whole point of the canary is that it's an acceptable sacrifice to protect the people who actually matter.
We are not a *warning sign*. We are real people. Our lives and rights matter in and of themselves.
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https://museumcrush.org/this-device-was-used-to-resuscitate-canaries-in-coal-mines/
There were actually strikes where miners refused to work unless they could be given the resuscitation cages for the birds, they refused to work unless they could save them too
And the miners are the capitalists
One of my favorite books is all about exactly this: https://www.dukeupress.edu/why-stories-matter
"Reflexivity concerning the amenability of feminist storytelling seems a minimum requirement for sustainable transformation"
They'd usually try to save the canary