Trans Day of Remembrance: Goodness

content warning: mentions of violence against trans people."The world is littered in dead and dying things that are so beautiful right now. What I want to give you is comfort, is succor, is a place to come and be in a mind that is not belabored by the impossibility of a better world. I want to bring you into the space that I insist upon occupying as a rebellion, as sustenance as integrity: I refuse to occupy a world where better is not possible. " Together, we can weave a thread strong enough to stitch this breaking world.For more on the Japanese art of making fabric from mother of pearl and other materials, called hikihaku, see How was it made? Japanese hikihaku obi | V&A (YouTube) and this TikTok post from Margaret Jean/Couture Fantasy.The Alice Walker quote is from her poem "Expect Nothing" from the collection Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism.The quoted lyric ""Because I knew you I have been changed for good" is from "For Good," from the musical Wicked (Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman.)Recorded on Sunday, November 20, 2022.notes and full transcript: https://powerpivot2.captivate.....fm/episode/tdor-good