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i have dozens of themed playlists. i have personal essays. i have multiple fandom sideblogs. i have a dreamwidth, a discord, a protonmail, a storygraph, a personal ephemera website, a lesbian digital-repository website, and a newsletter archive about the natural world. i have an ao3 with over 250,000 words of fiction. further information about all these can be obtained by means of the inquirous dm directed to your humble correspondent
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i don't want to ever hear again about how vegans are hypocritically ruining the environment btw. one THIRD of california is grazed by livestock. wat the fuck
crying again over the way minnie bruce pratt writes about cock & wanting cock & taking cock. i think all the goddamn time about when mustang sally wrote in her review of s/he (link) that "[pratt] transcends the mere statement of yang/yin to express something original about the desire to be filled by a woman lover." one of those reviews that's so resonant it makes me excruciatingly jealous lol, like. that's all i want!!! that's all i fucking want — to write something about my desire for butch cock & femme cock in a way that makes somebody go oh, that strikes past the cliché into something real about our lives.
no matter how hard i try to keep my revered femme bottom (link) ancestors close to me, i still feel so limited in my vocabulary. this butch tells me she wants to worship me with her cock, & i am struck simultaneously with want & a layered glimpse of the reverberating distance between our lives & our (sub)cultures' expectations. how many, even if they can tolerate the concept of my fem cunt taking her butch cock, couldn't comprehend the worship in it. how many times i've read that. how hard it always seems i have to search to find porn that portrays taking cock as neutral, much less powerful.
from "mimosa" (link):
You are a woman who has been accused of betraying womanhood. In my groans of pleasure from your cock, perhaps some would say I have betrayed womanhood with you, that we are traitors to our sex. You refusing to allow the gestures of what is called masculinity to be preempted by men. Me refusing to relinquish the ecstasies of surrender to women who can only call it subservience.
i think a really important part of context for that piece, which contrasts gay sex with her coercive + hurtful experiences of sex with her ex-husband, is that earlier in the book, a different vignette discussed the speaker's reluctance to buy a dildo with a woman (now ex) lover. from "cock":
The truth was, I didn't trust her with a penis on; I didn't trust her not to use it to ram all her anger at me into me. And she had never talked to me about how good she could make me feel with fucking. I had no way of being a woman who could take her cock into me without fearing she would take and give what I didn't want. Who would I be then, lying under her?
this part was so profound that i didn't make it any further through the book on my first read-through years ago, because it unlocked memories of my own experiences with that distrust + discomfort & the reasons for it. within s/he as a whole, the politics of penetration are not a simplistic "cock = good"/"cock = bad" or "dildo = good, bio penis = bad"; pratt writes beyond these false dichotomies to ask the same question that burns in my heart & gut & cunt, the high fem original sin (link): how good can you make me feel?
leslie feinberg (link) & joan nestle (link)'s work wrestles with similar complexity — the potential of queer sex, specifically butch/fem cock-in-cunt sex, for both immense pleasure and immense harm, & the intentionality required to navigate sex in a misogynistic society. the fullness of this context is really important to me because "mimosa" by itself is not wholly inclusive of transfem butches — the speaker's contrasting of sex with her ex-husband vs her butch lover includes a line about her former fear of pregnancy, but this is clearly not the only or central reason for her new comfort. that comes from how the butch treats her, which anyone can do. similarly, jacqueline's advice in stone butch blues (linked above) is about a dildo because that's the personal experience leslie feinberg is drawing from, but if you translate the language of "strapping it on" (or don't! whatever's affirming), the actual message has nothing to do with what the cock is made of & everything to do with the respectfulness & gentleness of the lover.
pratt's high fem perspective has always sung through my body in a particularly profound way. from "fuck":
You are not the one who stands over me, ready to strike a blow. You say to me, "What do you want, baby? I'll do anything." I am not a stone passive in your hand, waiting for your flint. I say to you, "Fuck me now." I move against you inside the word...
a dear butch friend once asked if my high fem could be conceptualized as extreme objectification, not in a negative way but rather in the sense that i'm "always within the act that they are performing." i knew how i felt but not how to answer them with words until now. pratt expresses what i struggle to explain: "I move against you inside the word." her sex writing describes how i feel during affirming sexual experiences: i am the fulcrum and the focus and the axis, our sex is a world that rotates around my pleasure. i am simultaneously safe within my partner's actions — the reassurance that there is no expectation for me to perform outside my boundaries, to "give" — and expansive around them, i'm the whole room & they're inside me, i'm surrounding & cradling & engulfing them, as circlusive (link) as the universe & yet sheltered by the words we've built together, enough to be free to move.
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Johann Besse
“I can see a smear of rose dawn through the tent window when you kneel between my legs and slide your cock inside me. For a second I feel cool inside and out, cool breeze on my arms, cool silicone dildo sliding over labia, vulva, vaginal muscles and skin. You press deep, resting your full length on mine, surrounding and penetrating me with love. I begin to cry, to be so filled by you, without the cringing and fear that once rode inside me at this moment. You have come inside me because I have asked you to; you begin rocking inside me. The birds are chattering, a mocking bird is floating the doublets and triplets of song over us. The sun begins to heat the air of our domed tent, sweat slides from your chest over my breasts. You heighten my desire with your stroking, stroking, and after a long ecstatic journey, after what you later tell me is perhaps an hour, I come to orgasm from your fullness, from your glancing against my clit. Again I begin to cry, wrenchingly, as you rest on me. In ten years of marriage to a man, I never came to this from the pleasure of him inside me. There was always elaborate manipulation of me by him, contortions of fingers, penis, always the fear of possible pregnancy, always his fear of me. But you are excited by my desire, close to orgasm yourself. The birds have subsided into whispers. A sudden rain shower rocks the tent in the sun, and I lie safe in your arms. You are a woman who has been accused of betraying womanhood. In my groans of pleasure from your cock, perhaps some would say I have betrayed womanhood with you, that we are traitors to our sex. You refusing to allow the gestures of what is called masculinity to be preempted by men. Me refusing to relinquish the ecstasies of surrender to women who can only call it subservience. Traitors to our sex, or spies and explorers across the boundaries of what is man, what is woman? My body yawns open greedily for what you are not afraid to give me. We dress and unzip ourselves from the tent. Walking down the red dirt road muddy from the rain, in the sharp morning light, we pause to caress the mimosas of the sensitive plant, to draw our fingers along the tiny ferny leaves to see them fold up instantly, a spasm of motion at our touch.”
— Minnie Bruce Pratt, “Mimosa”
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from “S/he Who” by Mustang Sally (book review of S/he by Minnie Bruce Pratt) published in Summer 1995 issue of TransSisters
This part of the book absolutely sizzles. Here, Pratt articulates how the butch/femme thing cooks for her without mere reference to gender role semiotics — the usual failing of those neobutch/femme fans who take for granted a universal appeal for that dynamic. On dildo/vaginal intercourse, too, she transcends the mere statement of yang/yin to express something original about the desire to be filled by a woman lover. It's an example of how, as I've long thought, a pro-sex feminist could write rings around sex radicals whose work is not informed by feminism but places all the lesbian eggs in the sexual liberation basket. Best of all, this writing passes the ever-popular wet test with flying colors.
In that vein of feminist sex radicalism Pratt moves on to tales of how she and Leslie still manage to commit gender transgressions even among the butch/femme lesbians with whom one would assume they would be right at home. On a book tour with Leslie, Pratt finds herself assumed to be "just a wife,” instead of a writer and theorist in her own right, when she struggles to keep up with a busy book table; she is even dissed as a femme because she doesn’t sport the long nails with which she could open a shrink-wrapped set of books. In the lesbian wars over the appropriateness of butch/femme desire, the lines are usually sharply drawn; Pratt bridges the gap admirably, doing a great service to discourse on lesbian sexuality. She superbly affirms this way of lesbian passion while challenging it to keep from sliding into a complacency which can indeed coast on the heterosexual model.
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aouurggh i think i inflicted some psychic damage on myself by producing so much hatertude in such a short amt of time... i'm literally niceys now......... i need to read something good to outweigh/rebalance my humors :(
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🙄👨🎤🎭🗨️ respect for your hater opinions!!
🙄 What’s an oddly specific pet peeve of yours?
when people have this style of bumper sticker on their car
👨🎤 Name a celebrity you just have no patience for.
I more so have no patience for people obsessed with celebrities and who always talk about them whether to love them or hate them. like people always keeping track of the goss I find very tiresome. actually I am thinking of one specific non-tumblr person lol so maybe I will just acknowledge that my lack of patience goes for that person
🎭 and 🗨️ asked and answered!
hater ask game. for the haters
🤢🎭 for hater asks!
eyyyyyyyyy
🤢 Tell us a few of your “icks”.
presuming these are "icks" in the sense of "the ick," things that will make you no longer attracted to somebody:
stingy tipper
doesn't read for fun (anything, incl fanfiction manga "trashy" books audiobooks) or only reads self-help or business books, which I would argue is also not reading for fun
doesn't offer to help when others are making a group effort on something in front of them, stacking chairs or whatever
(this applied more from 2014-2022 but) too online specifically in the twitter vernacular
has a really dirty bathroom/kitchen
🎭 Name an author/filmmaker/artist etc you consider an overrated hack, or just don’t fuck with
what does being an overrated hack even mean anymore when the nyt bestsellers list is such a pap parade. okay nvm here's a really zesty opinion and in an arena that would actually be relevant to my literary salon of followers/mutuals. roxane gay. bad feminist was unbearably thin, shallow, and brought nothing to the table. overrated
hater ask game. for the haters
🎧 and 🗨️ for the hater meme!!
xxxooo
🎧 A song that’s been driving you up the wall recently (and not in a good way)!
uwe... I haven't had many songs in my orbit lately that have not been of my own choosing... just looking at the billboard hot 100 list I'll say drake because apparently he has a new album out that a lot of people are listening to but we should long be past drake as a society by this point
🗨️ A word or expression that makes you want to tear your hair out whenever you hear it used?
"intention" "connection" "presence" "nervous system" (in the metaphorical/"feelings" sense rather than the organs) instantly raises my bullshit detector flag
ohhhhh or when people hit enter after every single sentence. drives me crazy. even one of my favorite writers has started doing it, presumably because it improves engagement/readability in her mind, but I HATE IT it forces everything into this awful brainless cadence
hater ask game. for the haters
🗺️ hater time :)
doing some time theft tuesday wednesday in part bc i am so enraged about my work situation lol
🗺️ What is the ugliest (or overall least pleasant) place you’ve been to?
the US-Mexico border wall is a scar on the landscape, a slap in the face whenever you catch it in your peripheral vision, deeply mentally and emotionally oppressive by design, and the shame of our nation. (the wall of course didn't originate with trump: the first walls built by the INS were erected in the 1940s and were expanded in the 70s and expanded again, more aggressively and purposefully with an explicit agenda of preventing "illegal immigration," under both hw bush and clinton in the 90s. ofc w bush and obama were also major border wall proponents and allocated billions of dollars to increasing barrier mileage and intensity)
i loveeeeee ripping out the few remaining populations of critically endangered maritime scrub plants and cutting off jaguar territories and forcing starving impoverished people to die horribly in the desert for the crime of being refugees from US-backed drug violence and US-caused climate destruction that made their own countries/lifestyles uninhabitable. the dunes in the above photograph are a rare and sensitive habitat type with an extremely high level of biodiversity btw with 4% of insects collected there being endemic, meaning they have been collected nowhere else
hater ask game. for the haters
“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”
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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)
Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.
(via iamayoungfeminist)
#ngl this is why structured and scaffolded talk is so important #at the beginning of the year in my classes i might structure a discussion like so: #1) pose question 2) students write down response 3) students are seated in labeled seats (a/b c/d) #4) student a shares first 5) student b repeats what student a said 6) student b shares second 7) student a repeats what student b said #8) i call on one person from each abcd group to share randomly (usually i'll say ''if you're a c we're going to hear either what you said o #what your partner said'' #then FINALLY i might take one or two volunteers #doing highly structured partner talks ensures that everyone shares and is heard at some point! #obviously as the year goes on i loosen these scaffolds considerably but #still important to track who is talking #lots of ways to do this (talking chips for ex) #idk how much of this is really applicable to the higher ed classroom but given some of the stories ive heard im sure we could all benefit #from a little structured talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (via @monopolizers)
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whether or not men benefit from feminism has no bearing on whether feminism is worthwhile
put another way. i dont care about how men are impacted by feminism
already have people mad about this. okay here's another take. men should be feminists for no benefit.
👸🧥📚🗣 the people need to know...
ahhh my sibling in hatertude. xoxo
👸 Is there a historical figure you have personal beef with?
no I think everyone is a product of her time and belongs in its context ^_^ and just b/c I despise you & your values doesn't mean the personal beef button has been activated. I only have personal beef with living ppl
🧥 A clothing item, fashion trend or “aesthetic” you would rather die than put on your body.
FLAT IRONED HAIR or any kind of heat styling on the hair. you can tell fascism is back bc flatironing is back as well as low-rise jeans skeletal thinness etc
📚 Worst book you’ve read lately!
THE TERROR DAN SIMMONS. can't believe they were able to transmogrify this objectively stupid, shitty, sweaty, tryhard, misogynistic, colonialist book into such a transcendental season of tv
🗣️ One sentence that would INSTANTLY make you lose respect for the person who said it.
(real example) [hearing about something bad happening in the world] "I'm sorry, but how is that my problem?"
my other real example happening 3x in recent months is "I don't read [for fun]" but it's not as instantaneous and steep as the other one... more like I have less respect for them as a thinker or opinion haver. given that everyone who said that to me was an educated fully literate adult. I know that one is more problematic lol sorryyyyyyy
EXTRA BONUS HATRED BECAUSE I JUST FOUND OUT SOME EGREGIOUS BULLSHIT VIOLATIONS OF OUR CONTRACT FROM MY PIECE OF SHIT SCUMBAG ASSHOLE EMPLOYER!!!!!! STAB STAB STAB KILL KILL THEY'LL TAKE WHATEVER THEY CAN CLAW BACK FROM US UNTIL WE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS TOGETHER!!!!!
hater ask game. for the haters
