The Silly Costumes We Wear
Erasure of Identity, or how Society Others Those Who do not Fit into a Homogenized Worker that Benefits the One Percent An Essay by Solomon Skalozub and Daedric Blackflame Content Warnings: discussions of racism, xenophobia, ableism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, physical abuse, emotional abuse, transphobia, dysphoria To escape The sun is setting on a middle of nowhere town, and in the middle of one dusty, empty street, a little girl with knees and knuckles bloodied gets back onto a bicycle. Her mother disdained at her boyish tendencies, and despite her protests to have the training wheels on her bike removed, her mother refused. She therefore then stole away into the evening–across the street to ask her neighbour if she could borrow his bike, which had no training wheels, to learn. Her friend had long since been called in for supper, she was alone on the street and still falling after each attempt. She had long since ignored the calls to come back inside–she would get this,...
