Ben @benfields.net · May 5

This is so deeply problematic. There are so many layers to the erasure here. Front and centre the erasure of Jews, but also this poem is a pretty direct response to The Holocaust, and so the vague reference to 'the horrors of WW2' is also very much erasure...

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Ben · May 5

and this is less personal than the Jewish erasure so ymmv but there is a real systematic and legal effort remove trans folk from public live that is current and distinct from the other groups here, that feels somehow lessened by their off middle group placement here?