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she was a bad bitch why lie
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@molsno hi ! would you by chance have any reading recommendations concerning transmisogyny? you speak very well on what you discuss and I thought you might have some clues
sure! admittedly, I'm not as well-read as I'd like to be due to a variety of factors, but I can at the very least recommend some works that I've read that have broadened my understanding. I don't have free links to all of these, but I'll try to link whatever I can.
julia serano:
whipping girl - foundational text. serano explains the topic in great detail, although the language she uses is somewhat dated, and her perspective is a bit limited as a middle class white trans woman. the 3rd edition will be releasing in march, but you can likely find the 1st or 2nd edition online.
sexed up - while not solely about transmisogyny, this book extensively explains the process of sexualization, particularly regarding how it's a tool for dehumanizing minorities. I found it helpful in dismantling my internalized transmisogyny, and I think others can benefit in similar ways.
why are amab trans people denied the closet? - an essay I find indispensable in debunking the notion of trans women experiencing "male privilege" before coming out.
rather than let this list expand endlessly, I'll just link you to serano's website, where she has links to all of her writings, including her essays.
b. binaohan:
decolonizing trans/gender 101 - an absolutely vital book for understanding the colonial origins of transmisogyny. binaohan's writing is meant to be accessible to those without an academic background, which makes it a great book for people who are new to the topic. I do actually have a free pdf of this, courtesy of a friend who got it from her gender studies professor: [link].
unfortunately, it seems much of binaohan's writing (which I haven't been able to read) has been lost to time, as far as I can tell. the website for their publishing company no longer allows you to buy anything, and most links to other websites that sold these books are dead. if anyone has links to their other works, I'd love to read them!
essays:
AC: hands off our lives, our stories, and our bodies - an essay by an indian trans woman about the transmisogyny of indian cis people and cross-racial transfeminine solidarity.
ashlee marie preston: the anatomy of transmisogynoir - an excellent primer on how black trans women are endangered and exiled by everyone else in society.
cat harsis: on transmisogyny exempt privilege dynamics - an insightful essay on how tme trans people wield privilege over tma trans people.
nsambu za suekama: late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist - an essay on a variety of topics, including how the gender binary is constructed by colonial forces. the writing has a very academic tone, which can make it more of an involved read. I've only just started reading some of these, but more of suekama's writings on various topics can be found here.
porpentine: hot allostatic load - a harrowing essay about the pain caused by transmisogynistic harassment campaigns.
wyatt fractal starlight: the abuser's guide to transmisogyny - a satire piece instructing tme people how to enact transmisogyny.
I think that's all I have for now, since it's getting a little difficult to remember what articles I've read. if anyone else has any recommendations, feel free to mention them. I have heard of the book black trans feminism by marquis bey, but I haven't had a chance to read it for myself yet; it's on my reading list.
I hope this was helpful!
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oil paintings on wood by Angela Lane (1974-)
Source: angela-lane.com
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A MOVIE A DAY KEEPS THE GHOULIES AWAY - DAY 3 ↪ May others be as passionate in the hunting of you. VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers
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Update: North Gaza Aid!
As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!
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it's interesting to me that torture just works to us, as a literary device. It's everywhere in movies and stories and whatnot, from big-budget dramas to little grindhouse short stories. It fits neatly into the requirements of plot: character doesn't want to offer information, Gets Tortured, has to offer information.
the issue with this is that it isn't how it works.
torture is a display of power. It fouls interrogation, this is known; a person being tortured will tell you whatever you want to hear to make it stop, which is more often than not a lie, made up on the spot, or if the truth an incomplete and useless version of it. It isn't generally done for information's sake anyway, but as a form of what the ancient Greeks called hybris, the violent exhibition of your power over another person.
This is, every once in a great while, done right in fiction, but it's a challenge to write vs. the idea that it's a shortcut to one character revealing plot-critical information to another. Pretty much every form of torture works this way, even the ones that are legally permissible. Psychological torment or physical discomfort also produce an animalistic desire to escape harm and foul interrogation. The forms of torture the cops can do? The cops do it not to gain information (or if they think it will, they're lying to themselves) but because it makes them feel powerful.
There's probably a master's thesis in it for somebody studying the rise of torture as a plot device since the beginning of the war on terror and the contemporaneous development of the Broken Windows theory of policing. I'm not really aware of any similar level of disconnect between what Works in fiction and what happens in real life!
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hi everyone! we have barely any food rn until we get our ebt next month, can anyone spot us $50 so we can get a little bit of groceries? thank you 🥺💜
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cannot watch the return of the king without thinking of that bad bootleg with the fucked up subtitles that said “this will be the end of Gender as we know it” instead of “this will be the end of Gondor as we know it”
so true gandalf
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VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers
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where's the screenshotsofdespair tumblr account when you need it
Same energy
Kei Kagami A/W 2006