Alexander comments on his pedagogy about racism, sexism, and heterosexism, and how his teachings move toward understanding trans* identity as a transcendence of a cis/trans binary. He argues that Lorde's writing is self-reflection, which is necessary to anti-oppressive education according to Kumashiro. He also argues that the discussion of crises (emotional and confidence-related) are key to confronting old frameworks about race, sex, and gender, while also discerning new ones.
Alexander focuses on his specific transition journey from woman to man, girlhood to manhood, and the influence of racial expectations in that journey. Alexander describes how his writing and this concept of Brother Insider and works like Sister Outsider are auto-ethnographic reflections of intersectional experiences, supporting Kumoshiro's point about how the knowledge and education of identity is built upon many subjective, self-reflection experiences. Ultimately, this leads Alexander to call for the shift toward "limitlessness of gender;" it is in the interest of human flourishing to understand epistemology and ontology in a way that transcends cisgender frameworks, centering subjective experience, especially that of marginalized people.
This is relevant to Plot Twisters because of our belief that identity labels are neither finite nor fixed to a collective interpretation. Though labels are a meaningful gateway to begin discerning our roles in the world, individuals can be seen as always moving and multiple. Therefore, we believe that it's important to recognize each person's lived life journeys, and how their experiences of being perceived through labels perpetuate and interact with systems of oppression, outside institutionalized gender (or race or sex) expectations. This is especially important for the most marginalized, because in their experiences we can see the most drastic effects of systemic cruelty and harm. At Plot Twisters, our work prioritizes education about how to communicate the individual storyteller's experience, then how to relate it to other people in their community.