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The Revolution Will Not Be Injected
To be read to Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
 
- Terre Thaemlitz


June 19, 2015 (comatonse.com).

 

You will not be able to gender reconcile, sister.
You will not be able to pack it, tuck it or medically block it.
You will not be able to find yourself on pills or skin patches and skip out of country for a budget procedure, because the revolution will not be injected.

The revolution will not be injected.
The revolution will not be brought to you by academia in four years without off-campus interruptions.
The revolution will not be describable with words approved by PC professors and their impressionable youth followers who PrideTM-fully brand themselves 'Queer' with no sense of irony or risk, yet censor terms like She-Male, Tranny, Transvestite and Transgendered.
The revolution will not be injected.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the Guggenheim, Whitney, MOMA or Tate, and will not star Jack Halberstam reading Gaga Manifesto then preaching mob mentality by quipping a million people liking Lady Gaga must mean there's something to it.
The revolution will not thank wealthy patrons of the arts.
The revolution will not make you five pounds thinner, because the revolution will not be injected, brother.

There will be no Iranian government subsidized gender reassignments pushed on men who love men or women who love women just to avoid prosecution as homosexuals under Islamic law.
CNN will not predict four Ladyboys satisfying a Thai airline's sexist beauty standards for female flight attendants means equality is at hand.
The revolution will not be injected.

There will be no Facebook fan pages about kids shooting hormone inhibitors that stunt their brains.
There will be no Facebook fan pages about kids shooting hormone inhibitors that stunt their brains.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Houston impersonators being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Del LaGrace Volcano pushing a baby stroller through Heathrow in a pink, blue and purple liberation birdsuit that he had been saving for just the proper occasion.

Dancing With the Stars, Ru Paul's Drag Race, Big Brother and Botched will no longer be so damned relevant, and no one will care if Caitlyn Jenner gets a Reebok endorsement to remove her dick on live television while sex workers are in the street looking for a day's pay.
The revolution will not be injected.

There will be no Transgender prison inmates raped and attacked by armed guards and convicts after being jailed for defending themselves against bashers about to blow their brains out.
The theme song will not be written by Elton John, Stephen Sondheim, nor sung by George Michael, Ricky Martin, Madonna, Melissa Etheridge, or The Village People.
The revolution will not be injected.

The revolution will not stereotype all Trans experiences as Trans-Female, Trans-Male, or Transsexual.
You will not have to worry about a spouse in your bedroom, Logan Ireland in a tank, or your gender when choosing a toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with 'T.'
The revolution will not fight the prenatal developments that may cause dysphoria.
The revolution won't put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be injected, will not be injected, will not be injected, will not be injected.
The revolution will be no hormone, children.
The revolution will be hard to swallow.