Becoming-Shapeshifter

I am becoming-shapeshifter. To become is a bodily process, a creative process. How do you create from a body that is the boundary of others?

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Transness is the creative agency. I mean the creation of possibilities from embodiment. I mean the piecing together from memory, out of social dismemberment, the body before its categories. I mean the sovereignty of loving your being. I mean the freedom to form anew.

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Shapeshifting is choosing how you embody, unconditionally—with the rootedness of pines; with the gentleness of a tiger’ s padded prowl; as the breathing depths of the whale’ s song; as the flow of the river that runs its course; in the dance of dappled sunlight; in the awakening by moonlight on skin; into the boldness of planets; into the softness of stars. Language shapes the somatic. Metaphors map the consciousness.

 

Embodiment is a story of shifts. Shapeshifting is the creative process embodied.