April 2012
21 posts
How to Sabotage Yourself
pinebark:
Over the past few years, I’ve been honing my skills in self-sabotage. Graduate school has helped me refine techniques that I’ve been gradually acquiring my entire life. Now, I feel like I’ve reached a point where I need to give back and share some of my insights on the art of self-sabotage — which many wrongly assume to be an easy and simple process. I’ve developed these techniques...
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FREE CECE! PLEASE DONATE & HELP FUND-RAISE! →
leslie-feinberg:
PLEASE DONATE & HELP FUND-RAISE! to support the struggle to help CeCe McDonald free herself from a men’s prison! I donated online. It was fast and easy and safe, thanks to the Coldsnap Legal Collective! If you’d rather not donate online using Paypal, you can send donations to: Support CeCe McDonald c/o Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN) P.O. Box 7625 ...
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Radscum Logic
Radfems: I AM NOT A BABY MACHINE! I AM NOT DEFINED BY MY UTERUS!
Radfems: IF YOU DON'T HAVE A UTERUS YOU ARE NOT A WOMAN!
Indecisive badfems. Oh horror.
odofemi:
Here’s (a bit of) how transmisogyny works:
Present as a feminine woman: “You’re reifying gender stereotypes and making a sick parody of women! Stop raping our identities and supporting patriarchy!”
Present as a masculine or androgynous woman: (actual comment left on my YouTube channel today by a radfem) “How have you ‘transitioned’?!”
When attacked by radfems, respond with anger:...
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[TW: murder/misogyny.] An actual quote by a badfem...
radfemscorpion:
[NOTE: Any quotations or sentiments represent radscum’s words and sentiments, not those of operators of this blog.
Image description: Background is 6 piece pie style color split with black and yellow alternating. Foreground is a picture of a blue mutant scorpion. Top text reads “[Trans people] expect we’ll be shocked to see statistics about them being killed ”. Bottom text...
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erica inchoate: a useful comment from someone else...
inchoaterica:
though i explicitly disclaim the shameless racial appropriation that this woman engages in, she’s got some valuable things to say about the roller derby biology == destiny BS. listen, i know it seems like something kind of niggardly and stupid, but the recreational rugby leagues around here all subscribe to the same sorts of policies (and had a trans-related witch hunt a couple of...
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might as well say it...
inchoaterica:
the local roller derby leagues have presented a united front that they’re not questioning their “genetic females only (i.e. XX)” policy.
bright side: the world doesn’t get to deal with Erica on rollerskates
dark side: goddammit i wanna play roller derby
darker side: it feels like everywhere else roller derby is filled with trans women, which means that this is another “this is...
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“(TW: rape, transphobia)
“All transsexuals rape women’s bodies by reducing the...”
– In case you think I’m making it up
(via autumn-and-eve)
UGHHHH WHAT THE FUCK :(
(via viviandemilo)
don’t forget that this happened, that it is still happening (via mattachinereview)
And this is why I still hold Smith College responsible for having yielded their campus to Raymond as a sounding...
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Re-run: a response to "I am Smith and I am Male"
Earlier today, when I read open posts by Smith students decrying discrimination on their college campus, I try to be sympathetic. I really do. But doing so with verve would be like shaking the devil’s hand and saying you’re only kidding.
This is the same college which employed Janice Raymond, but never answered for her violent invective against women with trans bodies. This is the...
Anonymous asked: How is it that we are responsible...
transactivisty:
How is it that we are responsible again?
My guess is you’re referring to my reblog of Telagentmess’s post titled “Dear Cis Rad-Fems,“
The original post, then places the blame squarely on the head of radical feminists for the deaths of a long list of trans women.
I reblogged the post in order to point out to my fellow trans people that these were Latina women (If you’ll see...
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Essay by Monica Maldonado: “How gatekeepers made... →
“The catch-22 of [the gatekeepers] was an external expectation that I wasn’t actually supposed to be too sexual. The context was essentially that of a castrated ‘man’ — wholly submissive and subordinate, a eunuch who would be nonthreatening to women. And to the men who would kindly have me, I would be their Madonna of purity.”
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Patience Newbury: Dear Cis Rad-fems, →
telegantmess:
(content notice: partial list of the dead included)
Every one lost is your responsibility.
Every life we lose due to racism and cissexism will sit in your heart like a stone.
Every light that goes out will leave a hole in your spirit.
Every drop of blood will be on your…
This is where a badfem’s (née “radfem”) absence of humanity has its greatest ...
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Monica Maldonado: "I don't discriminate against... →
transactivisty:
I run into this a lot. So let’s break down why it’s problematic, shall we?
There are a lot of cis people who really are sympathetic to trans women. It hits them at their core. They see the damage society does to us and their empathy kicks in, they really do care. They may not get it at all, but…
when i say it, i mean it
inchoaterica:
i want us all to be strong and free.
no cis policing of our identities
no trans/genderqueer-on-trans/genderqueer policing of our identities
no more minimizing other trans/genderqueer people for being different from you
my body, my rules, my life.
This goes right up there with No Less Valid, but I think this one’s better. Spoken with grace. Agency. Love.
Reblog this...
"saying as a blanket statement that you have no... →
As I’ve talked about before, there really isn’t any universal or consistent outward trait common to all trans women. Logically, one can’t possibly experience a basic sexual attraction to cis women but not trans women, at least not while claiming that supposed lack of attraction has anything to do with trans women and trans bodies. It’s about how you perceive trans women. What you’re “not...
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I AM SO CONFUSED: Why do people continue to say... →
transfeminism:
when they obviously don’t mean people who are actually both women and trans.
This is one of those things that I find so infuriating, even though I’ve come to expect it as the rule.
When people say they provide space and/or services to people who are “women and trans” and…
It’s that anyone who subscribes to that illogic of exclusion, by denying both qualifiers...
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we need a little glamour & glamour arrives:... →
mmmajestic:
Signal Boosting this. Check out the original post at trans grrl riot
i find myself becoming nauseous. again. i’m tired and nauseous with those in my local women’s and transgender communities who gloss over, disregard, and/or intentionally exclude trans women and transfeminine…
March 2012
26 posts
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“Why is it so impossible for cis people to effing allow cissexism to be addressed...”
– From a trans woman who, despite having a pelvic before, was being told in elementary terms by a reckless cis woman from a women’s health clinic that for the pelvic, “when you have a uterus and vagina” — spoken to her as if she was a “cis man” who had no idea the anatomy... 