Allself

This digital illustration explores the themes of trans liberation in healthcare; more specifically the questions around what community care can look like, and whether the spiritual components of transition and transition healthcare are interlinked or whether one element may outweigh the other. Through this piece I explore the concept of the AllSelf, in relation to these questions, positing that the spiritual and physical well-being of any person are inexplicably interlinked, such that they may be interchangeable. 

Similarly, care can be understood as being widely one and the same when it comes to the question of self and community care. As carbon forms, we are blessed with a physical form which allows our consciousness to navigate the material plane. Neither the consciousness that operates this body, nor the body which holds and filters this consciousness, can be seen as more important than the other – the two are entirely reliant on and part of one another, incomplete when taken out of context of this relationship. 

In the same way, the trans person – indeed, the human – cannot be cared for without the context of their community, nor can a community survive without existing for the well-being of its individual members. In this way, the transition of the individual in body and spirit, and the transition of humankind’s psyche and society from the limitations and spiritual sickness of the Western fate neurosis to the post sex-binary world, can be seen as one mirrored process. Both requiring holding onto what is sacred in each other, and ourselves, to move through this violent and magnificent shedding and re-imagining process. The existence of trans people affords all humankind the opportunity to outgrow antiquated understandings of reality and restructure both their material and spiritual worlds.