“actually,” i tell my mother, who has responded to my coming-out with linguistically impossible…

ghelgheli : "actually," i tell my mother, who has responded to my coming-out with linguistically impossible norms of gender, "farsi is a gender-neutral language, so you should not even be able to hold the idea of transphobia in your head, for you lack the symbolic concepts that constitute its precondition". unfazed, she reaches past me for a english-persian dictionary i've failed to conceal. i try…