After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism.
Read: https://tinyurl.com/59kzm98k
Read: https://tinyurl.com/59kzm98k
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i admit, i've tended to nod nod and go along w/idea that hijras & other "3rd sex" groups somehow get freedom & respect they don't traditionally get in benighted West
No idea ofc how this applies to 3rd sex groups in other cultures, but def a warning to be wary
As I said in when I QSed, I think of the problem as not just Patriarchy but as an enforced dominance hierarchy, of which patriarchy is a (the?) leading example.
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@transgenderhistory.bsky.social
Can help you learn more about the gender diverse people of the ancient Mediterranean world. She has some AMAZING documentaries. OUR HISTORY MATTERS WE NEED TO TELL IT OURSELVES <3
Countless other lost and discrimination third gender
"Eunuch" peoples. Alexander the Great even had a relationship a Persian feminine eunuch name Bagoas for 4 years. Scripture only speaks well of gender diverse people.
Yikes! Not the ideal stance for an anthropologist.
https://getdewey.co/bluesky
were i still in academia, i’d want to expand on this work in conversation with Akhil Gupta’s ‘Red Tape’, which invokes the concept of ‘homo sacer’ as social category that is at once necessary to patriarchal capitalism while also categorically reviled by it
It’s… idk, this is poor metaphor, but, it’s like finding out the framework I was told was necessary was built specifically to hide my sisters and I from one another.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Trans-Rad-Essays-Transfeminism-Book-ebook/dp/B0CSWXHHD7/
Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us 💚🏳️⚧️💚
https://taliabhatt.itch.io/
No shade intended, this deserves a wide audience and Amazon is the biggest online retailer around, I'm just hoping <3