Kindle Notes & Highlights
Compensation had been paid to the so-called slave owners for the freeing of enslaved people. She kept insisting, enslaved, not slaves.
‘Being trans … I always knew. As long as I can remember. Mum always let me be myself. When I was eleven I just said I wouldn’t pretend to be a girl no more. She understood. She knew. I had never been one.’
No one had talked about behaviour. Karl had spoken about being. Being himself. About gender and truth. That bodies weren’t the marker, for anyone. That things weren’t all that clear-cut or obvious. Not even what constituted a man or a woman. Boy or a girl. He would have said more, even. Opened up right here and there just to get it out of the way.
