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Empty Set

from Compilation by Jack Fallows

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This is a gender song. When you're assigned male at birth, are socialised male, and benefit from patriarchal privileges every day of your life, it's hard to explain to people that you're not a man. Mostly because the conversation quickly stops being about people and their feelings, and starts being about language and semantics. This song is about how the slow drip of craziness begins.

And a plea, if I may: Ask people for their pronouns if you're not sure. Use their pronouns when you've learned them, even when the person is not in the room. Even if you don't like the person. The internet is real, you can learn why these things are so important directly from trans people, without the need to burden anyone in real life with reactionary statements that often only serve to betray ignorance.

Trans people have always existed, nothing about it constitutes mental illness. But society's lack of engagement with, and contribution to trans struggles is causing mental illness on a devastating scale within the community. Be bigger than your learned behaviours and socialised fears. Be smart and be kind to one another.

And TERFs: get fucked forever.

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My pronouns are just grammar
And my body's just a vessel
And these days are just a set of zeros and ones
I have to wrestle with
If the act of observation
Changes the thing being observed
Then every eye that sees a different me
Will leave my outlines blurred

I am an empty set
I am an unsure bet
Don't drown me in a pool of lies
Then ask me to apologise
When your shoes get wet

Death permeates the living
And life shapes the way we see the dead
So absolute perfection
Is not so unfair to request
I dare you to try and hate me
As much as I now hate myself
But if you want to be a radical
Try to love yourself instead
And I'll do the same

When the night is cold and starless
We can hold out for the dawn
Not every shot could have been called for me
The day that I was born
Some day I'll get out from this city
And I'll get out from myself
And when the ghosts have left the attic
I'll look hard at what is left
And I'll plant it in the new soil
And I'll feed it to the birds
And I will scatter from that craggy peak
And run like water on the earth

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from Compilation, track released October 11, 2015

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