things that are part of the subway angel: tunnels & trains & tracks, commuters & tourists & buskers, rats & pigeons, graffiti & poems & sculptures & mosaics, signage & lights, beams & poles & high ceilings & echoes
things that are not part of the subway angel: advertisements, cops
more things that are part of the subway angel: conductors & maintenance & sanitation crews, elevators & escalators & stairways, turnstiles & exit doors, grates & rumbling & hot air & whistling, all smells, benches & handholds, windows & wind
more things that are not part of the subway angel: fare machines, hostile architecture
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...please look up the slang word "nonse" (with an 's'), and consider whether "nonses" might make a bit more sense than "nonces" in the context of a list whose other items are "hardened gamblers", "addicts", and "sociopaths".
y'know, "hardened gamblers, addicts, sociopaths, fools" at a race, rather than "hardened gamblers, addicts, sociopaths, pedophiles".
According to a friend he might have said "nancies". Which would be better, but would also be the literal transmisogynistic slur that nonce comes from. So not great actually!
hi, i was the one who sourced the video in question, it's the teensyville video off no rolls barred; this was a callback bit from earlier in the video, where they had been specifically speaking about lewis carroll, using the term 'nonce'. there is no misunderstanding here; sam reich did, in fact, say that it is quite ironic for a man in heavy makeup to jest about nonces. it is unbelievable for so many people to try to bend over backwards to make excuses for such blatant transmisogyny
it's also particularly upsetting when put into further context!!!! the blood on the clocktower community (which is the game being played in the video) has been heavily praised by transfems in the community for the number of transfems who are prominent players. off the top of my head i can name at least 10 transfems on the botc channel's rotating cast, a far higher percentage than its tme trans roster (and i believe equivalent or close to their cisfem roster, but i don't have an exact count bc they don't keep a documented roster for their streams) not to mention other major channels in the space that feature several very notable transfems. ime its regularly noted how safe of a community has been fostered for transfem viewers and players.
i must, obligitarily, note: a higher amount of transfem cast members (or the presence of them, period) does not necessarily mean a completely safe environment for transfems, either viewers or cast members alike. but at the very least, it demonstrates a marked effort to platform and support trans women as valued community members. an effort which, notably, dropout tv has not bothered to make. nrb in specific, the channel this happened on, is one of the botc community channels striving to make this effort, with one of the key and beloved members in their botc series being mara joy (who is a trans woman, noted not to tokenize her in specific but to highlight her)!!
so, to lay it out more specifically, sam reich made this joke on a platform that is expected to be a safe space for transfem viewers. he was a guest star on a show which has far less social pull than dropout tv, was one of the only white cishet guys in the room, and took advantage of that. i cannot stress this enough: sam reich went to a community that has a general expectation of being a safe place for transfems, as a guest, likely for the purposes of promoting his latest kickstarter, and he used that platform to make a "joke" about transfems being pedophiles.
it was also directed towards a gay man, who, like⌠well, we all saw the clip, it's my opinion that he looks pretty genuinely uncomfortable for a moment before trying to hide it by playing it up for the camera. tbh i find it disappointing that said joke ended up in the final edit at all! but the fact that sam felt so comfortable dropping that kind of quip given the setting and the current overall climate is so frustrating and gross.
i don't know. i don't fucking know!! it's an uncomfortable joke in a vacuum and worse with context on all fronts.
Devils minion should not be the most popular ship on AO3 because in a better world the DM chapter has a niche cult following among erotic horror sickos who are always breathlessly telling people "believe it or not in the books Armand hunts Daniel for sport and keeps him as a collared sub and becomes a pirate" and everyone would be like huh I guess the books are weird and instead the curse of being a mainstream ship has ravaged them to the point where the other day I had to read a post about how devils minion is the most healthy relationship in IWTV because Armand is finally being treated well and there's no power dynamic
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not to be a buzzkill but i kinda hate when i see a video of teenagers goofing off or construction workers having fun and people in the replies are like "now THIS is what 'boys will be boys' should mean!" goofing off isn't a boys exclusive activity......... why did you immediately tie it to their boy-ness....... what's going on there huh............
Heya! One of my org comrades - whom I spent the end of our last meeting explaining the origins of British TERFism and pseudo-Marxist bioessentialism to - has asked me if I have any texts or resources I could send their way on Marxist transfeminism*, and since I remember you trying to collate resources in a post a while back (which I can't presently find, you know how Tumblr is) I thought I'd ask you 'cause I personally can't think of any explicitly Marxist stuff, so yeah do you have any recommendations for me to pass along?
*Not in those exact words, they actually just said they found what I said "vis trans and Marxism really interesting" and they're "very into Marxism and phenomenology of identity at the moment", but y'know if I can steer them into actual transfeminism that would be good
hi!! yes ive been working on this for a bit. unfortunately as ive said its tricky and resources are sparse but ive got a lot more than when i first set out on this. im writing some stuff of my own to add to it and compile a lot of feminist and marxist texts through a transfeminist perspective but that wont be ready for some time, so for now heres some stuff i can recommend.
for explicitly marxist transfeminism, the main place id point is evalyn penrose.
Note: This article was written in a USA-specific context.
correct revolution depends on correct analysis
We know we want transgender liberation, but what does that entail?
another work ive been recommended on is marxism and transgender liberation, which should be particularly revelant to your context, though i still need to read it myself
I can also recommend some critiques of dominant feminism's and where they go wrong, Angela Davis' Women Race and Class is one of my favorites, if you're not familiar she was a member of the Black Panther Party, which should give you an idea of her perspective. there is also Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis, she is not a marxist but is a believe a transfem anarchist, so slightly off but still critiques a lot of these issues from a transfeminist perspective. There is also Philosophical Trends of the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy, a maoist organizer in India. She critiques both radical feminism and terfs, as well as liberal feminisms and even some errors of socialist feminists.
If you want marxist feminism more generally, Sankaras speeches and most of Kollontais writings are good (Social basis of the womens question, etc), but for transfeminism specifically much of it is still in the realm of liberalism (something I am trying to fix), so not much will replace some of the basic foundations yet, like Serano and Crenshaw. Jules Gil-Peterson professes to marxism, but honestly i wasn't a huge fan of A short history of transmisogyny. It may still be worth the read but it requires some scrutiny in my view, in some ways its actually rather anti-transfeminist. I've not read histories of the transgender child but it might be worth looking into further, I'll probably get to it eventually. Similarly Ive heard mixed reviews on Transgender Marxism but given the name its worth noting at the very least.
Bhatt has her own host of problems but I do think The Third Sex is worth a read for people unfamiliar with transfeminism to familiarize themselves with how transmisogyny is often laundered through the language of decolonial feminism.
I can get you links to all of this if you need, just let me know. Serano has whipping girl of course but also a few good articles on her blog, Crenshaw has plenty of writings but the main ones I tend to reference are Demarginalizing the intersection and Mapping the Margins. other short resources that are helpful are Girls you can hit by the part for reclamation and survival, as well as hot allostatic load and the abusers guide if you're wanting to familiarize anyone with how callout posts are often leveraged against transfems in particular. you can also sometimes connect this with Davis' and Crenshaw's writings about sexual purity being weaponized against minorities, if deeper analysis is up for discussion.
I know not all of this is exactly what you've asked for but I was just making a new list earlier and I figured I might as well be somewhat more exhaustive here so I can share this as a more current list of writings on transfeminism which I'd recommend.
I will probably update this more in the future and people are welcome to send me their recommendations, i know theres a lot of smaller writers working on the topic and I'm happy to check those out as relevant. This is just most of where I'm at so far.
oh! and if you're looking to analyzing terfs and where their issues come from Ellen Willis' retrospective radical feminists and feminist radicals is pretty insightful as to how things went the way they did, even if I don't totally agree with Willis
This isn't an identity. Its a shorthand way of referring to who is subjected to transmisogyny and who is not. It's not something we are imposing on people, we're describing how this transmisogynistic society is imposing or nit imposing transmisogyny on people. It doesn't care if you don't identify with fem or masc, it only cares about what you were compulsarily assigned at birth. People who aren't transitioning away from being compulsorily assigned "male" at birth are simply not subject to transmisogyny by this society. If they are trans, they're still subjected to transphobia, but not transmisogyny.
The TMA/TME divide amongst enbies describes predominantly how two people, despite neither being femme or masc, are treated completely differently based on their assigned gender at birth.
Enbies who are TMA literally cannot attend the same events that enbies who are TME can, even if their presentation is functionally identical. They are banned in big bold letters on adverts, and if they're discovered, they get thrown out and called a rapist as the door slams shut behind them.
TMA enbies are never allowed to divorce themselves from their gender assignment in societies eyes, they're never allowed to "just" be enbies, take it from someone who presented as agender for many years. The only people who took that in good faith were one (1) TME and I was dating her. Everyone else treated me like an intruder while actively bending over backwards to accommodate TME enbies.
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It saddens me that a fair amount of people who insist transandrophobia is real think that when feminists denounce transandrophobia, we are saying that trans men never experience oppression ever. Of course you do; you experience bigotry on the level of being trans, and you experience misogyny when people deny your gender identity and use the patriarchy to harm you. You do not, however, experience transmisogyny on the level that trans women do, which is the intersection of bigotry against trans people and bigotry against women. Itâs not just âtransphobia but for girlsâ, itâs a conversation around how both transphobia and misogyny are heightened when aimed towards trans women. The key fact is that trans women occupy BOTH spheres. While trans men sometimes unfortunately face misogyny, they do not face transmisogyny.
The reason people push so hard against the concept of transandrophobia is because it fundamentally requires one to believe in misandry. For it to exist as a separate concept from regular transphobia, analogous to transmisogyny, you would have to experience oppression both on the axis of being transgender and being a man. You do not experience oppression BECAUSE you are a man. You may face transphobia and misogyny from people who deny that you are a man, and you still deserve to talk about these experiences! But when you insist that transandrophobia is the correct word to describe this oppression, because you think that trans men need their âownâ word for their oppression (the word transphobia already exists. hello), you are cheapening the conversation around transmisogyny. We donât need âtransphobia but for boysâ and if you think we do, you need to do some serious reading into transfeminism.
Occasionally I see people(1) in the comments of posts(2) saying that if people are misunderstanding the OP(3), that must mean the post(4) was poorly phrased. But(5) it is nearly(6) impossible to phrase anything in a way that 100% of the audience(7) will understand(8). If most(9) responses indicate they understand the OP(3), the phrasing is probably(6) not the issue. At a certain point, you(10) have to learn to stop and consider whether your(10) first interpretation is the only or most reasonable interpretation. Trying to spell out(11) anything that anyone could possibly misunderstand quickly becomes unwieldy(12)
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(1) By "people" I mean a variety of individuals from a variety of demographics. Some of these individuals may actually be bots, but I am working under the assumption that most individuals responding on Tumblr are human beings
(2) "Posts" can refer to text (or other media) posted on a variety of websites, but the fact that this commentary is being made on Tumblr implies that without additional qualifiers, "posts" refers primarily to Tumblr posts
(3) "Original Poster," used online to refer to the individual who started an individual post, thread, etc.
(4) The phrase "the post" now serves as a stand in for posts the OP(3) (in this case me) has seen where a person(1) has made the sort of commentary described here
(5) While not strictly grammatically correct, starting a sentence with "and" or "but" for emphasis is a common rhetorical flourish
(6) Note the qualifier
(7) See (1)
(8) "Understand" here means "interpret in the way the OP(3) intended"
(9) A hard number is not given here because there is no strict threshold, and there are many circumstances where fault is not cleanly divisible between OP(3) and the confused commenter(7)
(10) A general "you" is often used in informal writing as an equivalent of the pronoun "one" and does not address the reader as an individual, because it is not written with a specific individual in mind
(11) Metaphorically referring to explaining something in detail, not literal spelling of words
okay I truly say this with SO much love in my heart but: watching supernatural really is like that post thatâs like âough the first 500 bites of dirt were not so good. maybe the next one...â
On this day, 16 July 1862, Black feminist, anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
After the lynching murders of three of her friends for the "crime" of setting up a grocery store which competed with a white-owned store she undertook a detailed investigation of lynchings and their causes.
Wells' work countered the popular myth that most lynchings were to punish alleged rapists, and showed that instead most were for such "crimes" as failing to pay debts, competing with whites economically or drinking alcohol. She recommended that Black people arm themselves for "protection which the law refuses to give"; she herself bought a pistol after being threatened by white racists.
Wells participated in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), but later distanced herself from the group after becoming dissatisfied with its leadership made up of the small group of either white or Black members of the elite. Instead she founded the Negro Fellowship League, and later the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, which may have been the first Black women's suffrage organisation.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788/ida-b.-wells-born
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I miss when ads were a single click and then theyâre gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesnât even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you canât do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that thereâs nothing I can do about it.
