Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.
Chelsea ManningOn a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.
Chelsea ManningThere is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.
Chelsea ManningI think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.
Chelsea ManningThere are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisiรณn militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticiรณn - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
Chelsea ManningThere are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers. We still face many administrative hurdles in every aspect of our lives. If anything, things are actually getting harder for us, because now there are people who are using our visibility as an excuse to say that we are already receiving fair and honest treatment, when the reality is that we are still in bad shape as a community.
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