{"id":38,"date":"1997-11-26T22:42:04","date_gmt":"1997-11-26T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/1997\/11\/26\/38.html"},"modified":"1997-11-26T22:42:04","modified_gmt":"1997-11-26T22:42:04","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/1997\/11\/26\/38.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my body conveys my gender. my gender conveys me. but why?<br \/>\ni am not attached to my looks, my personality can not be viewed thru a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>everyone else does not seem to agree.<\/p>\n<p>i am labeled, stamped, degraded, classified, clarified, portrayed and forced to fit into a persona that someone created on an anonymous server and called by the same name that i call myself. it is not me. why don&#8217;t people realize this? and why do people continue to define people in such a manner?<\/p>\n<p>i want to be free. free from other peoples&#8217; perceptions and midjudgments. i want to be me, not some self-degrading, self-pitying incompetent whore.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Rich said:<\/p>\n<p>If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my body conveys my gender. my gender conveys me. but why? i am not attached to my looks, my personality can not be viewed thru a mirror. everyone else does not seem to agree. i am labeled, stamped, degraded, classified, clarified, portrayed and forced to fit into a persona that someone created on an anonymous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}