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“I understand flat affect as a way of making some space when we're not sure how to feel within a moment of misrecognition. I read recession and withdrawal as a means through which we minimize the impact of difficult memories called up by and through inter corporeal moments of misrecognition, and numbness as a means through which we survive such moments by turning down the volume on our sensorium.”
― Hil Malatino, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

“The hodgepodge of spiritual practices stemming from and associated with these spaces—yoga, breath work, tarot, astrology—also tend to be white dominant. As trans folks have turned to these practices as a means of self-care and healing, they have also tended to entrench and intensify the operations of what anthropologist Arun Saldana calls "white viscosity," which refers to how an aggregate of cultural practices work in concert in order to "make white bodies stick together and exclude others,”
― Hil Malatino, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad