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!
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!
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.
Check out the newest educomic!
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.)
