queer history & queer present nuance

ik nobody's talking about these songs anymore but I've been thinkin about this ship ever since ERB came out so... I call this "Confessions of a Rotten Ego Renegade Boy" because it's dumb and it fits them

Intersex bodies do not need correcting, intersex bodies are not unnatural. Intersex people deserve autonomy.

Hello, I'm Rucach O'Cearba! I'm just a hobbyist with an interest in anthropology and queer issues.

I'm hosting a survey regarding how non-binary people feel they are perceived by both their binary and non-binary peers, as well as their opinions on others. This survey is intended specifically for those who are non-binary and genderqueer.

""BUTCH-FEMME", NOT LIKE "WOMEN LOVING WOMEN", BUT LIKE... " - z.s.c. asli, 2025.

this is a love note to ineffable desire and transgressive gender identity and lesbianism as a decorated, gilded, eternal portal to those places.

STUDS/BUTCHES ON T AND FEMMES ON E MY BELOVEDS

BUTCHES ON E AND FEMMES ON T MY LOVESSSS

FEMMES AND BUTCHES ON E MY BELOVEDS

DISABLED BUTCHES ON T MY LOVESSS

BUTCHES AND FEMMES ON T MY BELOVEDS

Happy APAHM and here’s a poem comic about my experiences being trans and Chinese I did in three days for my English class! 

Oh and- Bodhisattva Guanshiyin is transfem but to clarify, she is traditionally nonbinary!!

“I would hate for this interest in 4B outside of South Korea to somehow feed and revive the most regressive part of 4B,” Ju Hui Judy Han, an assistant professor of Gender Studies at UCLA, tells Them. “I would actually hate for the interest in 4B in the US to then somehow make this TERF [movement] grow in South Korea.” [...] But the conversation about 4B in the U.S. is rife with misconceptions about the movement, including false assertions that 4B accounts for the majority of feminist thought in South Korea. It’s important to note that despite the global attention, 4B is a fringe movement in South Korea, and Han says the vast majority of South Korean feminists do not abide by it. “I just want to make sure that people understand that 4B does not speak for Korean feminism,” Han tells Them. “4B is not representative of Korean feminist politics. A lot of us see something a lot more diverse and a lot more intersectional than what 4B calls for.” [...] Han says that they hope this blip in interest about 4B fades into the next news cycle, as there are so many other forms of intersectional South Korean feminism that do include queer and trans people. Ultimately, many of the current discussions about 4B are coming from a place of privilege that queer people don’t have the luxury of accessing.

old post & tags but i just was talking about this with someone & then this post came up in my notes again, & i wanted to highlight these because this is so true.

its very orientalist & reminiscent of the "noble savage" and so much western radical feminism engages in this. they love the idea that South Korean feminists are all into 4B and female separatism, and more broadly all feminists from the Global South, because then they can fetishize the real and imagined suffering of women in these countries.

i think there's this need for the symbol of The Eternally Suffering Silent Black/Brown/Asian Woman, who of course agrees with everything white radical feminists from Euro-colonial countries believe. it very much is the "noble savage" idea. like how during America's "First Feminist War," there was so much emphasis on how Muslim countries were in the "dark ages" and "practically medieval."

so feminists from these countries are perceived as like, primitive feminists, pure of the petty bourgeois corruption of western feminists (aka intersectionality & being pro-sex). they are the Ur-feminists from the radfem Garden of Eden, and thus also fundamentally two-dimensional. we have to ignore the existence of trans people in these countries, act as if the same feminist discussions and conflicts that happen in Western feminism aren't happening in feminism in the Global South. we have to play up how violent, savage, animalistic the men of their countries are, have to deny these women's husbands and brothers and sons and friends humanity and complexity. and we also have to pretend they exist somewhere out of time, untouched by modern degradation.

that's why i find it amusing how a lot of people acted like the 4B movement was something that came purely out of the unique situation of Korean women, when in fact the movement traces its roots to translations of Western radical feminist texts. we literally already did the whole female separatism thing and it didn't work out. but if the 4B movement is imagined as this mass movement of Eternally Suffering Silent Asian Women reacting to the unique savagery of Asian men (white males are bad but Black/brown/Asian men are worse, less control over that innate male violence), then it lends female separatism more legitimacy. that South Korean feminists have a lot more diversity of perspectives, that South Korean feminism also discusses intersectionality and trans inclusion and seeking solidarity with men and all of those petty bourgeois distractions, ruins that fantasy.

This isn't a clickbait article! Due to the nature of Mary's biblical virginity and the fact Jesus physically and socially identified as male, Day argues that, if the story of miraculous conception is truthful, Jesus would likely have been intersex, as there would only be XX chromosomes from his mother.