#Julian K Jarboe

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You can't quote the "God made me transsexual" quote from Julian K. Jarboe and then in the next breath be antisemitic. That quote comes from the teachings of Rabbi Akiva, it's a *Jewish* quote, and the way it's thoughtlessly parroted by antisemitic queer goyim is yet another example of how the modern queer movement benefits from Jewish activism and voices and teachings while simultaneously excluding and demonizing us. You can't have it both ways. You can't use Judaism for your own self-validation while not cherishing Jews.

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Ceramics projects!

Theme was "home" - explored ideas of finding home in your own body/queer identity and community

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God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.

Julian K. Jarboe

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Short Story Tournament

LIKING WHAT YOU SEE: A DOCUMENTARY by Ted Chiang (2002) (link) - tw: ableism

We saw calli as an opportunity: What if we could live in an environment where people didn't judge each other on their appearance? What if we could raise our children in such an environment?

I AM A BEAUTIFUL BUG! by Julian K Jarboe (2019) (link) - tw: bugs, themes of transphobia

Once at the clinic, I brought my copy of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka to my brief pre-surgery consultation. I pointed to the inside cover illustration, and said, “Gimme the works, doctor! Just like Gregor Samsa!"

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God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: because he wants humanity to share in the act of creation.

— Julian K. Jarboe

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Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

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God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation

— Julian K. Jarboe, quoted in Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

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Look to the stars. Look at how the winners get history and the losers get culture. Close your eyes and ask God for light and look for it.

Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe

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[Image description: a digital drawing of two people who have their faces close to each other. On the left is a dark-skinned person with short, slicked back wavy pink hair; they have a gold choker, a gold earring, a couple gold piercings and a gold cuff bracelet whose design displays angel wings, two knives and a pair of grapes; on their chest are golden top surgery scars. Their expression is sad, and their hand is the other person’s face and neck, their thumb by the other person’s ear. The other person has their face tilted up towards the first person, and their expression is neutral and unreadable. Their hair is long and light blue. They have paint in the colours of the trans flag on their cheek, and small gold jewelry in their hair; they’re only shown from the shoulders up, so we can only see the dark purple shoulder of their clothes. The background is light blue, light pink and gold, and displays the artist’s signature (@dandelion-roots) in the corner. End description.]

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I painted a denim jacket to wear to pride this year! I wanted something more personal than the shirts and things I could find online, and was primed on the jacket thing by seeing a bunch of gorgeous painted denim at a flea market. I picked the last bit of this quote from Julian K Jarboe to illustrate:

It’s not totally done - I want more of the lightning outside the one back panel, but think I’m gonna have to tape it to get the lines clean, which will take a while. I’m happy with how it came out so far, though, especially because I don’t normally do physical painting. I learned a lot of great and terrible things about acrylic and denim and the interactions they have that I did not know before!

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“Our shirking, shrieking hive progressed ever-onward, first northbound towards one national border and then back around, southbound, towards the other, and grew ever-larger and ever-louder on our merry way. Yipee!”

-Julian K. Jarboe, “I Am A Beautiful Bug!” 

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[Image ID: Text that reads, "I don't want to feel better; I want to know better. I should have known that God is not in the meal but in the sharing of the meal. I should have told you that holiness resides in needing each other, in acts of survival made generous." /end ID.]

Julian K. Jarboe, ‘First Contact, Communion’ from Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

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Short Story Tournament

THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by Edgar Allen Poe (1846) (link) - tw: death

“I drink,” he said, “to the buried that repose around us.”

I AM A BEAUTIFUL BUG! by Julian K Jarboe (2019) (link) - tw: bugs, themes of transphobia

Once at the clinic, I brought my copy of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka to my brief pre-surgery consultation. I pointed to the inside cover illustration, and said, “Gimme the works, doctor! Just like Gregor Samsa!"

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I've just started reading the short story I am a beautiful bug! By Julian K Jarboe. I'm only a few paragraphs in but so far my thoughts have been:

The narrator would like surgery to look like a giant bug? That's pretty strange, but intriguing, I wonder where this is going...

The narrator enjoys filling out long, complicated, medical forms? What is wrong with this person?!?

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