Mx. Chris Talbot

Chris is a queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary activist, artist, writer, editor, and JEDI consultant eager and ready to work with folks interested in transformational change!

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Mx. Chris Talbot

Chris is a queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary activist, artist, writer, editor, and JEDI consultant eager and ready to work with folks interested in transformational change!

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Photograph of Chris wearing a black vest and purple, white, and black make up. Behind them is a gradient of the trans flag. Text says Regardless of which 6th grade level understanding of gender and sex exists in the White House, and what laws they create to try and enforce their beliefs, I have always and will always exist and thrive outside the gender binary.

Be trans; do crime.

As Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg pointed out, “they always come for trans people first.”

The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) was the first target of the Nazi party’s book-burning campaign in 1933. 

Trans people all over the world were wiped out during colonization or westernization (depending on the country or ethnicity). We’ve always existed, but we were a threat to the Christian hegemony and were systematically removed from public view. 

The thing is, we popped up even when we didn’t have a term. At five years old, I declared that my name was Chris. I didn’t know what that meant, only that it was true. And that’s because it’s natural, normal, and inevitable that we exist.

Trying to remove us from the public eye isn’t going to change that. And it’ll be nearly impossible to scrub us from history this time around. It’s not like you can just burn all the books at the one Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. We have the internet and global connection.

We’re here, we’re natural, we’re trans, and we’re not going anywhere (IRL or from the public memory this time around).

The same goes for every other group targeted by the Nazi party and Trump’s Administration.

The Book

Without all of the BIPOC and 2TLGBIQA+ individuals in my support circles, I would likely still be in a headspace where I continually asked “Why, after two decades, do I still not fit in these spaces?” instead of “Why, after two decades of working with me, do my white, cisgender, heterosexual, and abled colleagues continually refuse to make space for myself and others like me?” 

This is my story of working as a trans nonbinary, mixed-race, queer, neurospicy individual within predominantly white, cisgender, heterosexual, abled institutions who haven’t done their work to ensure I am valued. And how I learned, with the help of individuals and intentional spaces, after 20+ years of workplace abuses, to value myself.

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The book cover for Why Must the White Cis Nonprofit Workers Angry React to All My Posts? A compilation of essays, posts, and thoughts by a queer, trans, mixed-race professional surviving predominantly white cisgender heterosexual institutions.
There’s an illustration of Chappell Roan performing in a red, white, blue, and gold outfit. Text says “White women, we need to talk. Specifically about Chappell Roan. Before y’all get big mad, I have to say that I am a fan. (I have to be. I’m a queer. It’s required.) I’m also a fan of how outspoken she’s been for Palestinian liberation. But… and it’s a big one… y’all praised her for the recent interview in Rolling Stone claiming that she’s an amazing ally for rejecting the offer to play at the White House. And worse, you came after BIPOC DEI specialists and liberation activists who took issue with this. This specific action was not the action of an ally or accomplice. This was the action of an actor and shouldn’t be the type of action you aim for.”

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Chris illustrated the difference between being an actor, ally, and accomplice using the recent example of Chappel Roan’s Rolling Stone interview to show how she could have filled each role. Which are you going to be? (Link opens on the Community-Centric Fundraising page it was published on.)

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