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Br'er Lion & Friends ([personal profile] liondrakes) wrote2025-06-15 01:07 pm
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Update: (Species) Identity Crisis Averted!

This past month, I took down the rentry on my blog. This rentry functions similarly as a kin list; I use it to list my experiences with alterhumanity, whether relative to species or not. When I removed it from my blog, I decided that I needed some time to myself to think things over. Species identity isn't any different than gender identity or orientation, considering the hurdles I've been jumping over for the past three years. It's difficult to say, with confidence, that you have all your ducks in a row when they go scattering at the slightest nudge. In passing, I've been reconstructing my rentry. I've pushed some experiences to the background and others to the forefront. I've reconsidered the relevance of experiences that I once waved off as "secondary" to my sense of self. More notably, I've revisited experiences that I've felt prominently before but always struggled to convey.

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Ryuu Yumemoto ([personal profile] dreamdragon) wrote2025-06-08 03:09 pm

The Complicated Case of Being Asian American

There have been more POC alterhumans speaking up about their experience as POC alterhumans within the community, heritage, paying homage to their ethnic culture, indulge in their native language. I love that. Anglocentrism is an issue that affects us all. And in topics like alterhumanity, where sometimes perspectives tied more to spirituality or culture, race, and ethnicity get brought in, it gets convoluted. The occasional lack of words in other languages, thus context becomes missing and disconnected, when nearly everything is discussed in, once again, an anglocentric POV, it gets frustrating fast.

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