By Jes Battis
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She found, I believe, little or no sympathy and certainly no help from her family, neighbors, and friends. In fact, recently, my Mom shared with me that, some months after the twins were born, she had asked one of her sisters why she, my Mom, cried all the time and felt terrible. The sister replied that all women felt this way after children were born—and that was the end of the conversation. She had no one to whom she could ask these important questions, no where to go in a time of dire need, no one with whom to cry.
Thus, it can be no wonder that I can hardly accomplish this particular writing, a task that I really need to be doing for me, because it seems, primarily, that I am a full-time community college instructor and a candidate for a PhD in literature; I am, in short, an individual under demanding obligations for my livelihood, and I don’t have time for a lot of, if you will, self-indulgence. indb 9 8/11/11 10:49 AM 10 Billy Clem class, with dominant and dominating structures of political and personal oppressions in all aspects of my life—personal, political, and professional.
Consider the following story in The Denver Post: “Alan Andrade told his girlfriend that he ‘snapped’ when he learned the woman he had oral sex with the night before was biologically a man. Indeed, until he confronted eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata in her Greeley apartment in July, Andrade had no reason to believe she was born Justin Zapata” (Whaley “Transgender Girl’s”). Dunn in The Greeley Tribune, too, repeats that Angie Zapata was “biologically a man named Justin Zapata” (“Smile”), as does Peters.