Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

The bricoleur’s awareness of constructivism and historicity helps her point out these omissions and their effects on the knowledge-production processes. In this context critical hermeneutics facilitates bricoleurs’ attempts to identify socially oppressive forms of meaning-making and research processes.

Customers are usually enticed in with a ducat, or pass for one free dance.

Self-abasement is a state of excessive, unwarranted humility self-inflicted humiliation and degradation.