“As it stands presently, queer and transgender folk are born into the confines of the grid’s rule, with little to no choice but to navigate its structures. But they weave themselves into the grid’s corners, in and across its spaces, like roots and vines spreading about. They do this as those who govern and perpetuate the grid insist upon positioning them as chess pieces square within the center of each box, straightly lined up. And much like roots and vines, the grid begins to stretch and bend to the rhythm and movement of the path and growth of queer and transgender folk. Some forms are retained, but the entanglement becomes more prominent. They bend and break the grid into shapes and modes it could not have imagined. Shapes and forms that have always been, and just overlooked and ignored by the grid in its self-absorption. And the grid finds its structures transformed by the power of self-forming and self-direction that is innate to transgendering.”