fiversdream.bsky.social
disabled deafblind writer, editor and reviewer, he/it/she, 29, transmasc genderqueer
anarcho-communist feminist, chaos gremlin. 18+ only, please.
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Mmhm. I haven't been in the center of one of those in a long time (thank GOD) but I end up on the outer edges of a lot of them and it is ... so painful to watch.
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"well I know x is acting in bad faith about this other thing so--" this can be true but the easiest lies often build on a kernel of truth + "calling out an abuser to hide own actions" is kind of a time honored tradition at this point
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My tenure as librarian of a queer collection involved moving all of these books to a separate section because Are You Fucking Kidding Me. I can see the virtue of having the texts. I cannot see the virtue of having them mixed in like they're not essentially historical documents.
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-isolated w/ whoever you're concerned about should be a more common thought
And I'm doing self-crit here too , I just don't know how best to handle it
But like. Punishment is less important than harm reduction and safety nets
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-is clearly using those as Pretext" IMO, especially in how they treat surrounding bystanders
But hopefully what I'm saying makes sense
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---i can't think of any worse place to be than "surrounded by people doubling down on defending X, and having no available methods left to reach people who will listen to you".
Perhaps it's paranoid of me! And there's a huge difference between "someone who has misgivings/issues" and "someone who-
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w/ doubts especially if you don't have that like, firsthand eyewitness knowledge they're full of shit. Give yourself an escape route. Hell, you should always have one, I'm paranoid like that
But in the *off chance* that you're wrong and you suddenly need to get the fuck out of dodge--
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TO BE FAIR. you are still technically correct. :D
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update: added it to the thread but it's specifically Algonquian folklore! so it's like 20 different groups which is why my memory was being evil to me afjdskl
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I was hesitating because i was like "i know this is one of the ones where it's a LOT of folks and inevitably I am going to remember the wrong one somehow. because my memory is evil and capricious"
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Okay adding onto this because I was being deliberately vague when calling her out + didn't want to get it wrong: the spirit in question is from the traditions of Algonquian peoples, which is a *big* group but includes Algonquin, Ojibwe, Cree, Roanoke, Mi'kmaq, Shawnee, and others.
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TRULY
Like I know I should have paused and gone and gotten the specific nation(s) that use this story (I couldn't remember OTL and i didn't want to lose the post while fact-checking) but then with something THAT FLAGRANT i'm like. okay you are on /baby-level/ misinformation
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This is why we’re making a feature doc on section 28 - story needs retold
anthrobricolage.com/dont-say-gay/
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Please flood these emails and stand up for trans people. It is not hard. We need your help even beyond just actions from the federal government, this is on a state level as well. We deserve to live our truth and to be safe. There NEEDS to be a movement on this. There needs to be lawsuits. Please.
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*vibrates*
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OHAI I CAN HELP
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Exactly!!! Its such a weird, bad metric and doesn't even justify her position - although she seems to think it does??
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They're just from low-prestige, oral tradition areas that fused older pagan beliefs with Christianity. There's no reason not to call them mythology - the difference between them and the Aeneid is really just a matter of scale.
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-they're really quite serious. Same with Romani culture. I'm not shocked that a white "anthropologist" thinks there's more to these differentiations, but the racialization involved is key to understanding *why* they're talked about differently.
Fairy tales, for example, are Christian folklore.
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Drawing a hard line between folklore and mythology and religion, btw, isn't just "blurry"; it's impossible. And inherently racist. What gets called which is determined by class, race, social standing, prestige, language... There's a reason Chinese beliefs are often called "superstitions" even though
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I can't imagine trying to assert, with my whole chest, that Indigenous religions don't have creation stories.
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-also wrong about literally everything she's saying *and* I didn't think she'd be pulling out out of date anthropology of fairy tales to justify "I really want to accept racist cryptid stories". But I probably should have expected it tbh.
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If Graveside Press is hiring you for SR work - look, if you need your bag, get your bag, but I don't think there's any saving this when the editor thinks Indigenous beliefs are Less Religious and Important than "real" Mythology. And mea culpa, maybe I shouldn't have used the word folklore, but she's
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It's part of why I try to speak up cause like - at least if I'm doing it *I'm* not having to directly breach a cultural taboo!! Like for fucks sake people. There's plenty of actual cryptids. Nessie and Mothman and the Jersey Devil are *fine*.
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Still in awe over the "this shuts out Indigenous people" yeah if you think folks are gonna be writing about this and subbing it to your cryptid anthology you clearly don't know enough to even distinguish between the pop culture and "real" versions
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A sensitivity reader cannot fix the racism you have already embedded into your post by *saying the name* and asserting that Indigenous beliefs are the same as fucking Mothman.
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You're not even supposed to talk about them! "We won't accept any pop culture versions and we'll use sensitivity readers" you've already said they're cryptids! You have failed step one!
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Charity is one way, transactional, and very often very conditional, and very short term.
Mutual Aid is communal, reciprocal within community when needed, open ended.
There are reasons why people who have had to turn to charities drag them. Like Salvation Army.Those fuckers are absolute shit.
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Thanks >.< I ended up deleting my blog because FUCK This shit I don't need to redux gender theory 101 for eternity with dipshits who want to self-victimize. I'm interested in writing some *actual* transmasc theory at some point but tumblr is CERTAINLY not the place
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I'm fully ready to leave it again tbh. I take transmisogyny more personally than I should and this place is making me angry.