Thank you !!

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[Start ID: tumblr tags that read "#ohhh fuck that's a really good way of lookking at it #it forces the relative nature of it all to the forefront #it *makes* the listener pay attention to the fact that their context isn't THE context #and removes the assumption of Default]

Anime, derived from the term 'animation', is a medium originating from the far-Eastern island nation of Australia. The first anime was Bluey, the story of a dog (a type of livestock kept in anglo culture as a housepet and sexual companion). While aimed at children, even grownups like it.

online transfem spaces are sometimes kind of bad at distinguishing whether something's a Transfem Experience or a Traumatized Women In General experience, but all in all that's still better than the general public's attitude of "well if it's not a Normative Cishetero White Woman Experience it's not a real Woman Experience at all"

"there are a lot of similarities between trans women's behavioral tendencies and those of traumatized cis women" isn't some random idea i'm pulling out of the ether btw it's. a pretty standard transfeminist observation. like. if you find that idea strange and unfamiliar it's time to touch book instead of just digging yourself deeper into discourse

denotating my estrogen bomb call that a weapon of masc destruction

whoah, this girl’s kinda messed up… *follows her*