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74. ALOK: What makes us beautiful? What makes us free?

We Can Do Hard Things

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Beauty Is Looking Like Ourselves

Eloke: I feel like for so many that are in this clearly, this un an attack on transpeople is killing all of us at the same time. It's sometimes heart breaking how far we have left to go. Why do it take me being an adult to learn that there were people like me who ran new york city night life in the early twentieth century? We called ourselves fairies and girl boys andregens and inverts. And then i realized, oh, it's because when we have action to ancestry, and especially queer ancestry, then we know that there have been people who have felt the same pain that we did, and they still lived a glorious life so that

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