Please keep these truths in mind as you read about my personhood.
I embrace total harmless personal and bodily autonomy and maximal free speech and free expression.
Bigotry for who we are and who we wish to be is one of the most horrific forms of violence in the world.
Every part of my personhood and my humanity strategically stands up against bigotry.
I carefully empower myself to promote maximum bodily and personal autonomy to live and be harmlessly exactly as I am and wish to be.
Worldwide, as long as people are not directly harming anyone, then laws and policies must actively protect and defend our free speech and free expression to individually do and be who we are and who we wish to be.
This does NOT include false claims that simply existing as we are and wish to be harms someone--like, for example, claims by supremacists that the mere existence of someone they think is inferior to them must be forbidden or curtailed.
I embrace fluidity and mutability while resisting and questioning any way of thinking that denies the fundamental constructedness of human personhood and classifications.
Point blank: humans make up and determine words and ideas to classify everything, and these words and ideas are constructed and evolving rather than "natural" and innate.
Once we awaken to the vast fluidity, malleability, and mutability of life, then sooner or later some of us begin to question the categories that humans construct to classify and control our bodies, minds, and ethics.
Most scientists recognize about 16 to 21 species within the genus "Homo" (as in homo sapiens or human beings) since it first appeared roughly 2.8 million years ago. If you include all early bipedal ancestors (hominins) that evolved after our split from chimpanzees and bonobos about 6 to 7 million years ago, the number rises to around 30 species.
What scientists know for sure is that homo sapiens are the last surviving human species on earth.
Humans are not the last surviving hominid species on Earth. The family Hominidae (the great apes) still includes several other living species besides humans: Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes); Bonobos (Pan paniscus); Gorillas (Eastern and Western gorillas); and Orangutans (Bornean, Sumatran, and Tapanuli orangutans).
Thus, there is only one human race.
From the 15th–17th centuries, during European colonialism and enslavement, "race" was a modern construction invented by white European people (and adopted by non-white people) to control and ultimately disempower non-European peoples.
While there is tremendous variation among our surviving human species, it is the same genetic entity and there are no races scientifically.
I embrace categories like "Black" to empower myself. Same with "Black woman" and "Black girl"--words and ideas that since my childhood, embody empowering and necessary experiences and personhoods for me in my own conscious vision of nurturance unique to me.
No one owns any of these categories. They are constructions that suit our cultural beliefs and practices. Moreover, all of our experiences fluctuate on spectrums in transformative and uneasy ways.
I may change my mind and I do not have to give notice.
Everything is biological.
Biology is a province of all living species--of life itself.
It is foolish, dishonest, and factually incorrect to declare that some living things or ideas are biological and some are not.
Again, everything that LIVES is biological. Intelligent thinking weaves and integrates multiple perspectives at once. We cannot and should not divorce mind from body, and thinking from acting.
Affirmation is crucial for me,
I was born in the right body, mind, and spirit and, as I evolve, I extend and deepen my earliest empowerments.
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