The Public Universal Friend was a Christian preacher in the late 1700s and part of the “First Great Awakening” religious movement in the United States.

After surviving a fever, the Friend, a former Quaker, began identifying as both male and female, and amassed a following throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions of the US. They preached sexual abstinence, the abolition of slavery and gender equality, and convinced several slave owners to free their slaves.

#TransDayOfVisibility #RedPill #transhistory #nonbinaryhistory

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #pride #lgbtqia

https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/public-universal-friend/

Not much is known about Mother George, a #black and #indigenous #transgender woman who was an early settler of the Grays Lake area of #idaho

She was known to be a midwife who delivered over 1000 babies in the mid to late 1800s.

After her death, her #trans status was discovered.

#transdayofvisibility #redpill #blackhistory #transhistory #indigenoushistory

https://www.madewithlev.com/trailblazing-woman-mother-george/

“The Matrix” has been one of the most impactful films of my lifetime, and was created by two #transgender women, Lana and Lily Wachowski.

In multiple interviews they have stated that the movie is intended to be a #trans allegory, with the red and blue pills representing the choice to transition versus the choice to go into denial, with the subway scene referencing Lana’s own brush with suicide and so on

Here is an interview where Lily talks about #thematrix as a trans allegory in her own words.

https://youtu.be/adXm2sDzGkQ

For #transdayofvisibility today I have called on and continue to call on trans people everywhere to reclaim the idea of the red pill, which has been appropriated from us, by sharing our history to the #redpill hashtag.

Led the red pill again represent the idea of choosing authenticity and self discovery in the face of fear.

Let us defy erasure by telling our stories.

… allerdings können wir alle es doch nachvollziehen, in einer komplexen unscharfen Welt sich an etwas festhalten zu wollen, nicht wahr? Seien es traditionellen Werte ausgedacht von Marketingleuten welche nichts mit der Geschichte zu tun haben oder Moralvorstellungen aus einer Zeit wo nur die Monarchen ihre Moralvorstellungen aufschreiben konnten oder beliebige Autoritätsfiguren seien es Eltern oder Influencer oder was auch immer John Wayne in meiner Phantasie war.

@bitbear

same with how the fragile manchildren on the right coopted the term "#redpill" from "#TheMatrix" and completely inverted the meaning of it

(If you don't know, Lilly Wachowski created "The Matrix" movie with her sibling, and is #trans)