"Furthermore, this doesn't happen only within ourselves, but our societies. We are not allowed to exist, to know ourselves, to find ourselves, to #liberate ourselves. As a result, we often either suffer a lifetime of pain, or we don't survive at all. The #genocide of #queer, and especially #trans people, is so efficient and pervasive, that people don't individually even need to consciously know they're doing it to us. #Memoricide is often enough to do the job. It's enough that society has already been deliberately designed this way through cycles throughout thousands of years of history when we have been out and open, and then crushed under the forces of #colonization, religious #oppression, and #whitesupremacy."

"I'm a heretic and I've said it before and I'll say it again:

*Books are not sacred.*

It's not the simple burning of stacks of paper that is the atrocity. That's not what people are aiming to destroy when they burn books. It is the destruction of humanity, culture, knowledge, ideas, and collective memory. Those books contained information on our medical needs and how to address them, they contained records on our existence, histories of our #queer and #trans peoples and cultures, and even our mythology and legends. Tens of thousands of books were burned, so many of which had no copies elsewhere stored in the world. It was essentially the burning of the Library at Alexandria for queer and trans people. This is called #memoricide and is an aspect of #genocide."