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Q&A With Trans Neighbor About TERF/Transphobic Stickering in Pittsburgh’s East End (Very Long)
Content Note: transphobia, TERF, fascism, harassment, images
I went back and forth on whether or not we should do this Q&A because I was worried about 1) unnecessarily freaking out other trans people who have been blissfully unaware of these stickers 2) giving this terf the attention they want, potentially leading others to their cause. I’m still not sure putting this out there is the right call, but I decided to do it because I think your blog is an important public archive of many things and I want this experience recorded somewhere. And I feel we need to stand up to this and expose it to light, because as silly and ephemeral as stickers may seem as a concept, the sentiments behind them are pretty sinister.
Your Name: Stuck Stickly
How do you describe your identity? I’m butch. I think of it as the gender and sexuality equivalent of those 2-in-1 shampoo conditioners. Butch works really well for me personally because I identify as a lesbian and as non-binary and trans masc. For some people, those identities are mutually exclusive and it’s painful to be described as one when you identify with the other. But for me, the word “butch” holds all of my truths very nicely.
