I wonder what North Carolinian Pauli Murray, the first Black woman Episcopal priest, a pioneer in civil rights law, a professor, and, as their personal papers reveal, genderqueer, would have said about it all. How would they martial faith in response to persecution? Murray was rejected from the University of North Carolina law school in 1938 because of their race, and from Harvard because of their assigned gender; they’d faced bathroom crises in their life, dressed in conventionally masculine attire and often read as male. Would they feel fit to battle now? Or would they be struck dumb by how
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