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Bibi is Morgan’s long-term partner who introduced them to the transgender community after connecting in an online chat room. Bibi is a transgender woman whose Indian family has disowned her, highlighting how second-generation children of immigrants are often cut off by their families when the fail to meet their cultural expectations. Bibi works at a nursing home, and the old people there loved and accepted her through her transition. Bibi educates Morgan, who is initially very uninformed and ignorant about gender identity, and she helps Morgan come into their own trans identity.
Bibi Quotes in Girl, Woman, Other
The Girl, Woman, Other quotes below are all either spoken by Bibi or refer to Bibi . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4: Megan/Morgan
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Megan wondered aloud how she could put her gender-free identity into practice when they were living in a gender-binary world, and that with so many definitions (sane and insane, she refrained from saying), the very idea of gender might eventually lose any meaning, who can remember them all? maybe that was the point, a completely gender-free world, or was that a naïve utopian dream?
Bibi replied that dreaming wasn’t naïve but essential for survival, dreaming was the equivalent of hoping on a large scale, utopias were an unachievable ideal by definition, and yeh, she really couldn’t see billions of people accepting the abolition of the idea of gender completely in her lifetime
Megan said in which case demanding gender-neutral pronouns for herself from people who’d no idea what she was going on about also seemed utopian
Bibi said it was a first step towards changing people’s minds, and although yes, like all radical movements, there’d be much resistance and Megan would have to be resilient
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Bibi Quotes in Girl, Woman, Other
The Girl, Woman, Other quotes below are all either spoken by Bibi or refer to Bibi . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4: Megan/Morgan
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Megan wondered aloud how she could put her gender-free identity into practice when they were living in a gender-binary world, and that with so many definitions (sane and insane, she refrained from saying), the very idea of gender might eventually lose any meaning, who can remember them all? maybe that was the point, a completely gender-free world, or was that a naïve utopian dream?
Bibi replied that dreaming wasn’t naïve but essential for survival, dreaming was the equivalent of hoping on a large scale, utopias were an unachievable ideal by definition, and yeh, she really couldn’t see billions of people accepting the abolition of the idea of gender completely in her lifetime
Megan said in which case demanding gender-neutral pronouns for herself from people who’d no idea what she was going on about also seemed utopian
Bibi said it was a first step towards changing people’s minds, and although yes, like all radical movements, there’d be much resistance and Megan would have to be resilient
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