March 2012
26 posts
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ERICA SPEAKS: On isolation, trans hierarchies, and... →
Erica’s debut post with the Cisnormativity blog discusses her narrative on isolation, intra-community gatekeeping, and the very real fear of becoming another Tyra Hunter.
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fuck yeah theorists: kiriamaya: In the early... →
[While the main link is 503 Service Unavailable, you can read the cached version.]
Note: this is a violent document. Gird yourself. Then be ready to feel some anger at its author, Janice Raymond. She now has a putative body count on her hands. [h/t @reinagossett, membership director of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project]
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US...
erica, inchoate: Adrienne Rich and "Amy Ray... →
inchoaterica:
point of fact: Adrienne Rich was a transphobe:
“…Janice Raymond cited Rich in the acknowledgments section of her 1979 book The Transsexual Empire, writing “Adrienne Rich has been a very special friend and critic. She has read the manuscript through all its stages and provided resources,…
Tobi Hill-Meyer: Check Your Sources, People! →
tobitastic:
I’m stunned by the otherwise trans supportive queer folks who are buying into the anti-trans arguments around the cotton ceiling. This is coming from a woman who wrote a letter to the UN asking that gender identity non-discrimination not be instated. She makes no attempt to hide the fact that she…
“This spectre of rape that cis lesbian “radfems” habitually raise, centered...”
– Queer Feminism (via transfeminism)
bellatropa-deactivated20120529 asked: im a trans CAFAB gender fluid guy and i read your additions to the things to not do to trans* people list and was wondering about this one "DO NOT view or pay for pornography of trans* people (primarily trans* women) or exploit prostituted trans* people." I'm really new to the trans* community and trans* politics do you know of where i could learn more about this? i post a lot of...
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Queersition: Hey Lesbian Transphobes! →
jadepichette:
I am not a man.
I am a woman and your essentialism oppresses women.
My male-privilege is not showing. Why?
Because I don’t fucking experience any. Your cis-privilege however is showing.
My women partners aren’t straight for being with me.
Don’t fucking erase their identities either.
You…
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e...that boat has flown: Some ways to avoid... →
radtransfem:
kwerey:
I haven’t ever seen any kind of Guide For Cis People the way I’ve seen Notes For White People or Anti-Sexism For Men. I saw and liked stfuconfederates’s list regarding racism, so this is an attempt at a first draft for my fellow cis people. Comments and criticism definitely welcome, especially from trans* folks.
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First: our whole fucking culture is alienating.
There...
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Monica Maldonado: The "Cotton Ceiling" Ain't About... →
transactivisty:
Cis people, and cis women specifically, please stop making the cotton ceiling about YOU. This ain’t about YOUR panties. This ain’t about “shaming” you into engaging in a sex act you attent interested in. Or using the language of social justice to coerce someone into intimacy or sex with someone…
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Bitter Grapes: The Cis Scum mentality. [TW:... →
bittergrapes:
[Content note: links go to graphic and alarming descriptions of violence and discrimination against trans*women. Be advised and be safe; do not click if you may get triggered.]
Trans*women are dying because of the Cis Scum mentality. Trans*women get beaten and raped and killed…
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When Cylons Dream: Trans women in particular have... →
This is what our (trans)-revolution sounds like. We are done being hurt. We are ready to fend for ourselves and we are ready to begin to heal — whether we have the shoulders of cis people or trans men. Or not.
These are powerful words below. Print them and post them where you can read them every day. You’ll need the strength it gives.
whencylonsdream:
I’m tired of waiting.
We...
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The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project: I'm... →
whencylonsdream:
Like, even from people that are fucking awesome about everything else.
It never seems to cross peoples minds to be inclusive towards trans women.
It never seems to cross peoples minds to acknowledge trans women.
It never seems to cross peoples minds that without…
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Kinsey Hope Can't Focus For Shit: Cissupremacy →
From a question raised by @AustistLiam about cis people’s invasive probing of trans bodies in cis news media. A six-part Twitter response — 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 — with a link to this cogent, must-read piece by Kinsey Hope follows.
genderbitch:
All of you do it.
Not one of you, even the people I am following (minus the trans folk, obviously) have avoided messing up on this. It is...
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pussytooth reblogged your post: pussytooth replied to your post: A love letter to… Right. And you’re missing my point. I asked why you used the term “CAMAB” like, a dozen times in a piece directed at…
Here’s your answer.
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pussytooth replied to your post: pussytooth replied to your post: A love letter to… I’m not questioning the writing of the piece, or directing it at trans women specifically. I’m questioning addressing trans people over and over by referring to their assigned gender.
Quite frankly because I’m trans, and I’m allowed to?
And, uhm, trans people are assigned a morphological...
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pussytooth replied to your post: A love letter to CAMAB women on this International Women’s Day. Do you really need to emphasize the coercively assigned gender this much in a piece? It seems like at least half of them could be dropped in favor of just “women.” It’s clear that you’re addressing trans women, why keep bringing up their birthday?
Because our bodies — the way cis people...
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A love letter to CAMAB women on this International...
A love letter to all CAMAB women who were coerced into reading trans misogyny or simply doubted themselves when they woke up this morning:
Today is International Women’s Day 2012, and this is our day as CAMAB women as it is a day for all CAFAB women, too. We join and are joined together to face down oppression against our very many and varied existences.
As women, we know the same social,...
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When Cylons Dream: I'm noticing an ongoing trend... →
jadepichette:
whencylonsdream:
Like, even from people that are fucking awesome about everything else.
It never seems to cross peoples minds to be inclusive towards trans women.
It never seems to cross peoples minds to acknowledge trans women.
It never seems to cross peoples minds that without inclusive and acknowledging…
So much of this. So many trans women out there are survivors of a...
Woman reminded gays exist, world ends →
And she lives in Toronto, Canada? Isn’t that, like, one of the most accepting cities on the continent for not only queer people, but also for immigrant communities, visible minorities, and the like? She might find more solace in, say, Amarillo, Texas.
zjemptv:
Kidist Paulos Asrat watches Jeopardy, not knowing she’s about to be assaulted by homosexuality:
One of the contestants last...
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In which I face down the "stealth=lie" with a... →
Instead of writing my paper, I read this and got colicky with a trans person who is just “being honest (no hate!)” — the new no homo? — about how trans people who “live stealth” are being dishonest with cis people.
Someone put me under a fluorescent lamp, please?
