This is just pen dragging. It’s not at all the same as cursive.

Tons of reasons.

1. You lived through them. There is a continuity in your mind, rather than a dissociated aesthetic.
2. Survivorship bias takes time. We think of bell bottoms for the 60’s, even though there were many other pant styles. Over time, specific things become iconic of an era.
3. The internet and mass media flattened and accelerated trends.

I think this misses how horrifically expensive this avenue would be. I’m not trying to dismiss that this is a viable avenue for some people, but those people have more financial, social, physical, and mental capital than the majority of trans persons.

When you are given a route to asylum, you have protections and can apply for assistance. You can’t do that as a tourist.

So many of us live paycheck to paycheck and, if we sold everything that won’t fit in a suitcase, we could barely afford the plane ticket.

We have to make day-by-day analyses and weigh the options. Right now, I’m choosing a semi-stable roof over my head and saving every penny I can manage. My only alternative at this point is to choose homelessness in a foreign country, hoping that I don’t get deported back here with no means to rebuild what I’ve lost.

Being homeless and marginalized in the US is not a viable option. I’ve literally done that before.

I wish I could flee this shitheel country. Issue is that there’s currently nowhere progressive that accepts the US as a valid country to flee from.