00:00So, a standard kinship diagram, a man is a triangle, a circle is a woman.
00:09What if someone was trans or gender non-binary?
00:13Here's me, and I'll make it a square, because I'm not exactly a man or a woman.
00:22Human babies are born with the ability to grow up as members of any society.
00:30It was an emotional thing, as much as an intellectual thing.
00:35She's writing an anthropological study of herself.
00:39She brings you into an uncomfortable position with an other that's not so distant.
00:46And in anthropology, these things were never talked about, ever.
00:52Esther was not playing the game.
00:54Esther was not doing anthropology in the way that she was supposed to.
00:57She was way ahead of her time. What can you say?
01:04Is camp gay? That's not a question. That's the reality.
01:09I felt like I had been a female impersonator my whole life.
01:14Femmes love that butches are in their bodies the way that they are.
01:19We love the masculinity up against being female.
01:23The fact that she wrote about desire and erotics in this way
01:27isn't just revolutionary for queer people.
01:30It's revolutionary for everyone.
01:32I fought so hard to find a form for who I wanted to be.
01:39People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:43So the first duty of any queer person is to survive.
01:46People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:48People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:49People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:50People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:51People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:52People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:53People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:54People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:55People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:56People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:57People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:58People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
01:59People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
02:00People will be learning from her for a long time to come.
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