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|| :: she / her or sie (ze) / hir || :: proudly trans, proudly a dyke || :: british-passing fenian || :: marxist
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I am struggling to cook something for my sick mother, as the cost of buying firewood is now $70 per day. Hell on earth gaza!! If you can help my family please do 💔

funny to say this bc idk if i actually count as a Feminist TM because i have marxist critiques of it but i like a lot of stuff happening w/ transfeminism bc it actually extremely easily lines up with marxist analysis which is why i tend to gravitate around it

I'm watching Parliament's debate on self-ID so you don't have to and it's not bad so far (reader, we are only 30 minutes in).

🚨EXCLUSIVE | Labour set to formally declare it believes trans women are men, says leaked NEC paper. The paper, due to be voted on tomorrow (20 May), means Labour will **ban** trans women from: ❌ All-women shortlists ❌ Women's Conference ❌ Being Women's Officers See below👇

Seeing a growing cohort of "marxists" complaining that transfeminists "only do identity politics" is really fucking depressing. Is this the 1970s/80s all over again? Feminist politics without class analysis is not worth any sort of attention, but class analysis without feminism isn't much better.

I cannot emphasise this enough because people will accuse trans women talking about our experiences of misogyny or SV of getting off on it or lying for validation - objectification is not a compliment, neither is being assaulted. Nobody thinks like this besides GCs and other misogynists.

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"We are exhausted." You're free to take the boot off our necks any time you want, nobody's forcing you to keep it there against your will, sorry if the squirming is a little uncomfortable underfoot but it's entirely in your power to stop any time you want; a luxury you do not afford your victims.

If you can, please donate. Share either way.

"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

"Should this minority group have human rights?" is always a very ethical polling question.

They are literally forcing all of Gazans into a concentration camp in what used to be Rafah in southern Gaza, after destroying it. They are now planning on annihilating Khan Younis. There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.

I think watering down "detrans grifter" to mean "anyone who dares to have opinions after detransitioning" might be a bad idea actually, "detrans grifter" describes a very specific type of political figure

AFAIK the EHRC consultation isn’t live yet. It may open later today (I’ll keep checking) or may be delayed. Either way, when it does open *no need to rush*. Take the full 6 weeks to read, consult & compile your response. It will probably be announced here when it opens: www.equalityhumanrights.com

Cat Aviator visiting the mausoleum of the ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great, one of the rulers of Ravenna. According to legend, Theodoric died in his own tomb, struck by a lightning that split the dome in half.

2022 v 2025

PSA: "Joy is resistance" is for the marginalized and oppressed. In the context of fascism, privileged joy is indifference, collaboration, and enabling. Queer joy is resistance Black joy is resistance Disabled joy is resistance Immigrant joy is resistance Privileged joy is an excuse to not act.

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Big credit to trans medievalists who have been pulling a lot of great works out in the last few years. When I'm slating the historical trend to just erase transphobia in interpreting the past, I don't mean them, and I was probably over-generalised.

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I may be very jaded but it seems like whenever things go from bad to worse in Palestine we see more of these posts which are (in my eyes) thin moral self-justification for looking away from genocide and passively accepting helplessness in its wake.

The treating of detrans people as some sort of inherent ideological enemy - rather than a community which is marginalised in incredibly similar ways and with whom we should stand in solidarity - is grim and shameful and embarrassing.

BREAKING: The Israeli military has issued forced evacuation orders for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, warning there will be an “unprecedented attack”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7w6uku

The Hijra are, of course, also a group who are pushed out of the formal economy, made to subsist on performing and begging for alms at festivals, and who wear women's clothes and use female names and forms of address. Western academic: "Yep, just a bunch of not-trans women, noble third genders."

It's really frustrating how much historians of antiquities put historical cisgender sources on a par with historical transgender sources when determining whether trans people existed in the past.

The Bad Gays podcast justified using he/him pronouns for her by going, "We think all pronouns are probably valid for him, and yes he asked a surgeon to construct him a pussy, but actually he did not exist in the MODERN GENDER BINARY. See, Rome's gender was more about penetrability ..."

Preposterous country

Fact of the matter is "hey, I have uncertain feelings about my gender identity I want to discuss with a therapist who can help me make sense of them" and "I would like to change my sex characteristics" are two separate healthcare issues that can and should be provided independent of each other

Important polling evidence. Confirms previous census-based analysis that deprivation is a clearer driver of social distrust than is diversity. In fact, diverse areas have *higher* feelings of social cohesion and that people get along locally (once controlling for deprivation)

Something I'll write more on someday is how "white feminist" easily became a discursive specter to dismiss the necessity of all feminism writ large, by associating feminist causes with a privileged or collaborationist perspective. Yet, arguably, this is more true of "straight feminist".

This is why it's really bad teens are using LLMs as search engines and 'research', and just mindlessly regurgitate whatever comes out.