The act of uncovering power, however, cannot just be to bear witness to power’s abuses; what Apostol provides are complex psychological portraits of the subaltern, their oppressors, and the oppressors’ collaborators. It is that duality that is particular to Apostol’s work: a deep understanding of oppressor and oppressed.
I look forward to protests of striving towards the resilient new, rather than ones that seem driven by their bringing of the nightmarish past into the nightmarish present, amplifying the grating power of both to the point of near insurmountability. If the past is not past, when can we move past it?
On the cusp of the 2020 presidential election, with a mixed-bag of outcomes for trans rights issues on state and national levels, what does the future of legal non-binary gender recognition look like? There are three main questions to consider: 1) whether equality will be brought on the nation level or through piecemeal state actions; 2) whether the achievement will come from legislation or court precedent; and 3) what arguments will be used to secure these rights.
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