{"id":487,"date":"2018-04-15T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:14:23","slug":"aj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/15\/aj\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by AJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish my gender didn\u2019t dictate who I was, that they knew &#8220;AJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wish they knew my name, \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When they use \u201chis\u201d name, it hurts like a punch to the gut.<\/p>\n<p>When people call me my name, I smile as they call me, \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like you read, AJ?\u201d Butterflies swirl.<\/p>\n<p>A smile brandishes my face hearing the name \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With eyes closed, I have to say to those who won\u2019t accept me. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work.\u201d \u201cI hate that name.\u201d They don\u2019t like \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care anymore.<\/p>\n<p>This is who I am, you should never try to change that.<\/p>\n<p>AJ is what I\u2019ve decided, it\u2019s who I am.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want \u201chim\u201d to come back, here and queer. It\u2019s \u201cAJ.\u201d Breathless. Silent.<\/p>\n<p>No longer.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t stick to the binary. You can\u2019t make it that way. I won\u2019t listen.<\/p>\n<p>AJ is loud and proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by AJ<\/p>\n<p>I wish my gender didn\u2019t dictate who I was, that they knew &#8220;AJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wish they knew my name, \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When they use \u201chis\u201d name, it hurts like a punch to the gut.<\/p>\n<p>When people call me my name, I smile as they call me, \u201cAJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like you read, AJ?\u201d Butterflies [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}