alexisx-au.bsky.social
ey|she. Kinky (domme+owner), neurodivergent (autistic+adhd), consensually nonmonogamous, femme, queer/pan, spoonie (me/cfs), intersectional, academically oriented. In Naarm/Melbourne. Respectability politics is immoral. https://flexibeast.space/gemlog
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Er, sorry, that should have been:
the sort of arrogant "I and others in this group know The Truth, but others don't" thinking that's part of colonialist thinking.
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i've tended to be vary wary about engaging with fellow trans women - particularly those who claim that they can't ever have had male privilege because they've never felt male; that's not how it works - and have tended to feel much more comfortable around trans men. /6 /end
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the diversity of trans experiences to counter this. It certainly feels to me that universalising / totalising trans experience is the sort of arrogant "I and others in this group know The Truth, but others don't". As a result of all this, .... /5
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i've also regularly encountered trans women insisting that their trans experience is _The_ Trans Experience, such that i've had to 'de-educate' health professionals who took them at their word; when i've given public presentations about trans stuff, i've been sure to emphasise ... /4
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Then, a few years ago, on a Discord server, i was lectured on male privilege by a trans woman in her 20s, who was probably in kindergarten or early primary at the time i transitioned; and i got accused of being 'transmisogynist' in a Reddit community, details here: ... /3
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i got labelled "just a crossdresser" by some people in the local trans community. Then, a number of years later, i got told by a mid-North-Coast trans woman on Fet that people like me were the reason Real Trans Women can't have nice things, which was one reason i left Fet at that time. ... /2
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Hmm, okay. Well, i actually avoid the trans femme community because of my various negative experiences of it since i transitioned over two decades ago. The 'Harry Benjamin Syndrome' crowd was more prominent at that time, and: /1
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Wait what? We are? How so? Like, i certainly acknowledge i'm a trans femme with white privilege, and i can imagine there are various trans femmes with a colonialist mindset (consciously and/or unconsciously), but was the claim that we're _inherently_ white supremacists?
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Gorgeous!
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Indeed. Posted the below yesterday as a response to it feeling like the Dems just want people to let horrific things happen whilst they .... write sternly worded letters and urge people to vote for them in the (putative) midterms.
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True, but then, my politics in general - let alone my various personal characteristics! - probably makes me insane to most Australians. 🙂
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Very sorry to hear this. 🫤 Even if i've been doing queer+tgd activism for too long to be surprised ....
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There's also quite a few of us Australians here - cf. the 'auspol' hashtag. 🙂
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Are you already aware of this article? "Working in a psychiatric inpatient hospital last year, ... [m]y task—teaching groups of patients alternatives to becoming upset while stuck in a punitive setting—left me feeling like an unmistakable agent of state repression."
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Was going to say something similar. "The unwashed masses are too stupid to ever do anything of their own accord; they're being driven by a rat under a chef's hat."
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Resilience: The characteristic individuals are expected to develop by multiple systems of oppression in order to deal with the consequences of that oppression, for which those systems abdicate responsibility by declaring “that's just life”.
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It's like "Private equity surely wouldn't strip mine the businesses they take over, as they have a vested interest in the latter's ongoing success."
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Ah no, sorry to hear this.
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All one needs to know is that Rust provides Blazing Fast Fearless Concurrency With Zero-Cost Abstractions. This is enough to then be able to lecture every FOSS project that they must Rewrite It In Rust.
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i regularly buy new releases, of various genres of music, via Bandcamp. i only rarely hear music on commercial radio that i want to hear more of, let alone buy.
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Are you already aware of the Kink Between the Lines conference, @kbtl.bsky.social ?
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As i've said before: Those of us in marginalised communities often don't have the luxury of avoiding what the right-wing and its media are saying, because what's said gets used as the basis to attack us (either directly or indirectly).
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