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Realize Your Strength

from Per Scientiam ad Justitiam

June 20th, 2025
5 tracks
25:56
Per Scientiam ad Justitiam
Per Scientiam ad Justitiam
Realize Your Strength
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7:20
Realize Your Strength
Ruby Rockatansky
chorus This is the time to rise This is the time to fight This is the time to realize your strength! This is the time to rise This is the time to fight This is the time to redefine your faith! Don't give up now Show us your faith This is your chance Show them your strength verse I dream of foggy streets Upon which I've yet to walk Concealed by the shadows of cowards Unseen monsters hunt and stalk They bare their fangs and pounce Revealed for all to see Yet no witness dare denounce They stain their hands with apathy Abject cruelty on display The monsters rip my flesh They rip me from myself Until only rage is left Yet I do not stand alone I carry the strength of many My siblings are all with me They roar their presence known chorus 2 This is the time to rise This is the time to fight This is the time to realize your strength This is the time to rise This is the time to fight This is the time to redefine your faith You saved my life This is my faith You took your chance And showed them your strength!
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"Per Scientiam ad Justitiam" (Through Science to Justice) was the motto of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexual Science) founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1919. It was the first sexology research center in the world and pioneered care, understanding, and knowledge pertaining to queer individuals, particularly in regards to trans healthcare.

In 1933, the Institute was raided by Nazis and much of their work was destroyed.

It's 2025 and I'm trans and angry at the genocides being committed against us and so, so many others in the world right now.

This EP is dedicated to all those who have been victims of these atrocities and all those who are yet to be.

The fight is far from over.

Most guitars and vocals were recorded during live streams on Twitch throughout February, March, and April.

Credits

All music, arrangements, and performances by Ruby Rockatansky
Drums are half programmed, half played live (and heavily quantized lol)
Mixed and mastered by Brett Windnagle (Lascaille's Shroud)

"Stonewall" originally written and performed by Alicia Cordisco and Transgressive for the album "Extreme Transgression"

transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/album/extreme-transgression

This cover was entirely recorded, performed, and mixed myself.

Originally released December 5th 2025, remastered in May 2026

Audio clips used throughout are sourced from the mini-doc titled "Gay and Proud" directed by Lilli Vincenz in New York on June 28th, 1970, one year to the day of the Stonewall Uprising:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gay_and_Proud_(1970).webm

Cover cover art uses the following assets from Pixabay:
pixabay.com/vectors/fist-cuffs-hands-top-hand-gesture-2831332/
pixabay.com/photos/brick-wall-red-structure-masonry-1916752//