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Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

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unfortunately anon so, so many people have not actually agreed that. a lot of people have never heard the term oppositional sexism & i've even see some people on tumblr throwing it around & saying "transandrobros don't understand oppositional sexism" while engaging in oppositional sexism.

its also crazy because The Transfeminist Manifesto is pretty anti-oppositional sexism as Emi Koyama was capable of appreciating nuance. frankly i knowwww none of these fucking people have read the Manifesto, because Emi wrote an entire section on Male Privilege where she makes the explicit argument that trans women are capable of experiencing male privilege because anyone can, including a cis woman with a traditionally masculine name, and that trans women shouldn't downplay this since it isn't helpful to building solidarity and it allows cis women to argue they don't have cis privilege just because they are women and so the cisness cancels out.

and i fucking KNOW if someone posted that exact argument on here, plenty of the people who consider themselves the defenders of trve transfeminism on here would call it transmisogynistic and tear it apart. like.

idk man. isn't it kind of telling that so many people on here seem to think Julia Serano, a white American woman who while having her own nuanced and important contributions to transfeminism and feminism in general, also has a history of contributing to anti-transmasculine and exorsexist myths, is the founder of transfeminism.

meanwhile, the term transfeminism was first put in print by Patrick Califia, a trans man who wrote prominently as a pro-BDSM lesbian in 1997, and then in 2001 Emi Koyama, an intersex Japanese trans woman who also didn't consider herself to have a gender, critiqued white feminism for tokenizing women of color and ignoring racial analysis, critiqued perisex trans people for viewing gender as a construct but still believing the sex binary, critiqued "reverse essentialism" where trans people "adopt the essentialist notion of gender identity" because "essentializing our gender identity can be just as dangerous as resorting to biological essentialism," who i cannot stress this enough literally wrote this in the section on violence against women:

Trans men also live in the constant fear of discovery as they navigate in a society that persecutes men who step outside of their socially established roles. Crimes against trans men are committed by strangers as well as by close “friends,” and are undoubtedly motivated by a combination of transphobia and misogyny, performed as a punishment for violating gender norms in order to put them back in a "woman's place."

and STILL wrote a postscript saying a fundamental problem she saw with her manifesto was

"Overemphasis on male-to-female trans people at the expense of female-to-male trans people and others who identify as transgender or genderqueer. I take full blame for the fact that this manifesto is heavily focused on issues male-to-female transsexual people face, while neglecting unique struggles that female-to-male trans people and other transgender and genderqueer people face. At the time I wrote this piece, I felt the need to restrict the focus of feminism to “women” because I feared that expanding the focus would permit non-trans men to exploit feminism for their interest, as some so-called men’s rights groups do. While I still feel that this fear is justified, I now realize that privileging transsexual women’s issues at the expense of other trans and genderqueer people was a mistake. [...] I have thought about writing a new manifesto to address these and other insights I gained since 2000, with the confidence and clarity I have now, but for now I am leaving the task to others. If you write one, please send it to me.

& in 2008:

I wanted to write a feminist theory that counter the argument that transsexual women were so different from all other women that there is no place for transsexual women within feminism (or that feminism has no use for transsexual women). I wanted to provide easy-to-repeat arguments that pro-trans feminists can use to confront blatant bigotry and falsehoods against transsexual women. And to these ends, I think “Manifesto” was successful. But there was something unsettling about the “Manifesto.” In an effort to forge an alliance between transsexual and non-transsexual women, the piece neglected the struggles of transsexual men and other transgender or genderqueer people who do not identify as “women” unless it was convenient to include them. The piece was also weak on intersectional analysis–that is, how anti-trans sentiments and oppressions compound and complicate oppressions other than sexism, including and especially racism and classism. It borrowed from the work of women of color when it was useful–for example, to point out that transsexual women’s unique experiences should not be the basis for their exclusion because to do so would presuppose a singular universal female experience, which is obviously false–without contributing any insights as to how the inclusion of trans sensibility helps to fight racism and other oppressions. The fact is, I had only been living in my new home town for three months or so when I wrote this piece, and I was not fully in touch with my own discomfort with the white feminism that filled nine out of ten weeks of the Introduction to Women’s Studies, nor did I feel confident enough to challenge the view that feminism is simply about advocating for women and fighting sexism–and nothing more. In short, what I had written was a version of white feminism that was modified just enough to include transsexual women. At the time, I felt that it was the only safe way to write a feminist theory that advanced transsexual women’s place within feminism. I spent next couple of years meeting more people with a common commitment for justice for all, slowly building the self-confidence it takes to “transform silence into language and action,” as Audre famously stated.

(& i think there are good criticisms that can be made of the Manifesto, but that does not change my respect for it because she engaged in self-critique and wanted the work to be open to criticism, to be a beginning and not limit to active transfeminism theory and practice).

like. interesting how a lot of self-proclaimed transfeminists on here are outspokenly explicitly against the beliefs of both of the trans people who helped popularize the term. people have been pointing the problems with this shit out for 2 decades at this point & y'all think its just tumblr discourse.

Unfortunately she is dead, although it hasn't been reported on widely (not surprising as she wasn't a super well-known public figure). A friend on LinkedIn wrote a post commemorating her life, and InterACT has also posted about her passing. She was apparently undergoing treatment for cancer and had been for a while:

in May she posted this to her Facebook, and it seems the GoFundMe for Aileen's also confirms she is deceased:

Emi was the driving force that holds together Aileen’s–a peer-led community organizing and hospitality space by and for women living and working along Pac Highway. And, if you knew Emi, you would not be surprised to hear that her work at Aileen’s is a massive undertaking, because her dedication to serving the community meant she did more than humanly possible in a 24 hour day. It is crucial that Aileen’s continues to serve women who are experiencing homelessness, criminalization, and violence. Since 2019, Aileen’s has provided hospitality space, non-judgemental and accepting community, peer support, resources, harm reduction advocacy, and outreach services. Led by 6 part-time peer staff, Aileen’s aids community dealing with issues of poverty, criminal legal, CPS, substance use, domestic violence, police harassment and brutality, sexual assault and harassment, racism, transphobia, and more. Countless people rely on Aileen’s for necessities like food, supplies, showers, clothing, and a safe place to rest. Emi has been essential in Aileen’s ability to serve the community, and Aileen's was Emi's most cherished project. Without her or other support, the organization is at risk of shutting down. Weeks ago, when asked what all Emi does for Aileen’s, co-director Leslie said “Oh, she does everything.” It is hard to describe “everything”, but Emi handled: all grant writing and reporting, administration responsibilities, fiscal sponsor management, coalition building, court and political advocacy, resource accrual for survivor support, safety planning, and training/education for staff and community. Aileen's, and all of Emi's past work, is about liberation and survival under a system that has left so many without. With your donation, Aileen’s can increase pay and hire more peer staff, transfer daily operations, buy essential supplies like food, clothes, harm reduction items, and take care of basic costs not covered by grants.

you can read an interview with Emi where she talks about Aileen's here. something i really appreciate is that when asked why its important for Aileen's to be a "women-only space", Emi clarified that it isn't as trans and nonbinary people can also come, and that they also wouldn't turn away cis male sex workers in need either.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

Can anyone please help me eat today and get a bus pass? 0/30

Cash

The whole world has forgotten us in Gaza.

Nader's brother just had a baby -- what should be a beautiful and wonderful occasion is brought down by the current state of life in Gaza. Food is scarce, medical care is expensive, and housing is unstable.

If you have the means, please consider supporting Nader and his family. They're trying to leave the strip once they have the funds, but everything is making it extraordinarily difficult.

I don't think I can quite express how heartbreaking it is to learn of Emi Koyama's passing, and to hear about it days later from seemingly the only person talking about it. Even her wikipedia hasn't been updated. Thank you endlessly, @elierlick for telling us all.

I quote and cite Koyama often, and her relationship with strife in the trans community made me hold onto her work all the more. Seeing the post, I really didn't want to believe it was true, and there is so little coverage for her. Where are the queer papers doing memorial pieces? Where are her murals? Why is her photo or at least name not all over my dash?

Her death makes me angry. It makes me sad. It makes me mourn for everyone whose lives were touched by her in-person work, as her writing deeply touched me.

Emi Koyama is the person who popularized the word transfeminism.

Every single person who calls themself a transfeminist owes Emi Koyama for that.

And it makes me ill that so many people who are the antithesis of what that word means, tries to claim it for ideologies that spit in the face of everything Emi Koyama is--now was.

Emi Koyama was a Japanese-American intersex trans woman who refused to abandon intersectional lenses to her feminism. She challenged white feminism, she challenged radfeminism, and she pushed us into a new era of trans and feminist thinking.

And she was demonized by reactionary members of the trans community for it. Her inclusivity was dangerous, her staunch opposition to racist feminism was dangerous, her refusal to be categorized by bigoted folks within our own borders was dangerous.

She stood with the members of our community that were discarded by attempts at appealing to white cis perisex folks. She stood with people across fictional binaries some trans people are bent on maintaining. She wanted a liberation movement for all trans people, and she fought like hell for it.

She wrote the transfeminist manifesto in 2000. She was harassed endlessly by people who tried to police trans identity in the 2010s in the same ways we are seeing today--those same sorts of people now adopting her term to call themselves. What a poisoned irony.

She was a fierce advocate of sex workers, was instrumental in fighting for the rights of intersex people--she and Betsy Driver founded Intersex Awareness Day--she was a major voice in challenging racism in queer spaces, she challenged fatphobic narratives in feminism, she was a major advocate for disability rights, she was a passionate defender of those who faced sexual violence and domestic abuse, and at the bottom of a long list of accolades, she helped me feel connected to other trans people.

I don't think I'll ever be able to fully express my gratitude and looking at the contact email for her website, I wish I had ever sent an email. I wish I could tell her what her work and advocacy has meant to me. And my heart hurts deeply at the effort to erase one of our best defenders. She should be a household name.

Per Chris Ash's words: "Those who know her name know what she brought to every movement she touched, and countless others have studied concepts or benefited from rights and narratives that she played an often-quiet role in shaping. Rarely have I known someone whose life and work have had this strong of an impact across so many movements, who was this brilliant and humble, or whose commitment to service was this strong."

May her memory be a blessing. May those who knew her connect stronger over losing her. May we all be as bold in the face of such separatism and be someone like Emi--who fought for us all.

tldr the job market isn't hiring either of my roommates and we can no longer afford rent and need to have money to live in the mean time while we get someone in the PNW to do a lease takeover

if you're looking for more specifics: hi! I'm a small queer disabled POC artist living with two other queer disabled people. I am not able to work outside of doing commissions [which I plan on opening in the next few days] and my roommates, despite months and months of applying to job after job, have gotten barely any response back and haven't been hired at all. we were previously being helped out by their parents but they too are being financially fucked and can no longer provide such aid and I'm basically the only one bringing in income with SSI and it's not enough to cover even half of the rent in the place we live right now.

ideally we want to get a lease takeover for the place we live in right now. if you or someone you know live or want to live in the Washington State and can afford a 3 bed 2 bath place that's roughly $2400 a month, feel free to DM me and I can direct you somewhere to share more specifics

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