transgender women have the same problem as Muslim men (where they are all named Muhammad or Ibrahim etc), except we are all named Alice or Hazel or etc. we have solved this by reinventing the nisbah (Hazel al-Portlandi, June al-Digital Audio Workstatiani, etc.)
I had a professor confide in me today that he doesn’t go to Burger King because he doesn’t have the correct cultural capital to order there and is thus uncomfortable doing so. He said it is a working class place and it would be symbolic violence for him to step foot in there.
Disagree with this. Instead you should read dense and difficult tomes with no notes or annotations. If at any point you forget what’s in the book, freak out. Freak the hell out that you’re declining, you’re stupid, then read it again while crying.