This kind of ties to conversation about queer-flavoured russophobia I’ve been having on my yaoi sideblog but it’s not about yaoi so I’m posting it here, but I do love when western queers balk at the assertion that the idea(that is often used by our governments to criminalise healthcare and same-sex activity) the LGBT movement is western export actually does have basis in reality. And then in same breath they’ll be like Marsha P Johnson is the Patron Saint Of Being Trans and it’s like. Why not Sally Mursi. Why not Hanan El Tawil. Why not Jin Xing. Why not Maryam Khatoon. You probably don’t even know these names.
Like I am down to venerate literally any trans woman in history by virtue of that alone, and I do, but you all do understand that frankly the entirety of US queer history has done dangerously close to nothing to the advancement of our liberation on the other side of the globe, right? Not nearly enough for you all to be acting like these western figures are universal figures, or expecting gender and sexual minorities from the imperial periphery to agree that this is a culture and history that is meaningfully shared. It isn’t shared. It is imposed.