Revisiting Consent in Dance and ' i'll pray for you' (CW religion and transphobia)
In January 2019 I wrote about a meeting / workshop I had attended talking about consent in dance / performance.
Today on Facebook something blew up, I'm not going to mention the group it was in as quite sensibly the admins have hidden the threads /posts involved, but it hinged around consent. It was a dance related group with a heavily white middle cis -het US American membership profile/
The involvement of religion and religious topics in other wise secular spaces is often fraught, usually down the the fact that the religious feel the need to evangelise and prosletyse and that the response to someone reporting an injury or illness to to offer to pray for them and to encourage others to pray. What escapes these people is that what they say there is
" I am involving you in a religious ritual without your consent and do not feel i need to seek your consent before doing so "
this is before considering the deeply problematic nature of making secular spaces religious for those who follow other faiths or none and for those whose particular denomination / subgroup within a faith is inclusive of LGBTQ+ people etc ...
If a Roman Catholic or Salvationist says they are going to pray for me, following their doctrine, that's a death threat because both the Roman Catholic church and the Salvation Army do not respect or recognise me as a valid person and seek to 'cure' me ... There is no cure for my condition or situation merely physical amelioration and the opportunity for systems and processes to correct an error of assignment.
a cisgender female born on the same date to the same parents is not me , neither is a cisgender male born on the same date to the same parents ... these people, who do not exist, are no more me than my younger brother is.
Today on Facebook something blew up, I'm not going to mention the group it was in as quite sensibly the admins have hidden the threads /posts involved, but it hinged around consent. It was a dance related group with a heavily white middle cis -het US American membership profile/
The involvement of religion and religious topics in other wise secular spaces is often fraught, usually down the the fact that the religious feel the need to evangelise and prosletyse and that the response to someone reporting an injury or illness to to offer to pray for them and to encourage others to pray. What escapes these people is that what they say there is
" I am involving you in a religious ritual without your consent and do not feel i need to seek your consent before doing so "
this is before considering the deeply problematic nature of making secular spaces religious for those who follow other faiths or none and for those whose particular denomination / subgroup within a faith is inclusive of LGBTQ+ people etc ...
If a Roman Catholic or Salvationist says they are going to pray for me, following their doctrine, that's a death threat because both the Roman Catholic church and the Salvation Army do not respect or recognise me as a valid person and seek to 'cure' me ... There is no cure for my condition or situation merely physical amelioration and the opportunity for systems and processes to correct an error of assignment.
a cisgender female born on the same date to the same parents is not me , neither is a cisgender male born on the same date to the same parents ... these people, who do not exist, are no more me than my younger brother is.
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