three meals to anarchy

reinstalled shinigami eyes to take a look at the damage and it's so much worse than a year or so ago when i deleted it. virtually every intersex blog i know of regardless of how they feel about tme/tma is marked red unless they are especially vocal about liking it, countless trans men are marked red regardless of whether they are vocally inclusive, most who are marked green are either famous guys or are (somewhat) infamous for their transphobia and exorsexism if not also racism.

Well, it's not a computer program, per se. It was a manual flagging system that required users to catalogue and then relied on a moderation team to verify whether the submissions were done correctly or not. It's a reporting system, not so much an automatic scanner. In theory, a way to highlight "hey, take this person's input with a grain of salt, someone saw radfeminist rhetoric from them" is not terrible when the next step beyond initial flagging and moderation is verifying yourself.

It was in response to this climate [feminist hostility to trans women] I wrote the piece “The Transfeminist Manifesto,” which was later published in the anthology Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century edited by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier. The manifesto addressed various feminist concerns, such as reproductive choice and health and violence against women, and discussed how transsexual women share many of the concerns of other women. 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.

for folks concerned its AI, i'm pleased to report its not only legit, she has a whole ass burger coord to go with it and its delightful

idk man just. stop forgetting trans people who desperately want and need lower surgery exist.

Fuck you I was expecting comedy and now I'm crying?!

i’m gonna say something that will probably piss some people off

requested by @gaytomatic

The thing is, simply by the fact we are so rare, unless a problem is within the trans community itself exclusively then trans people are never the problem. We represent somewhere around 0.5% of the population and have virtually no political or societal power. Even in queer spaces we still represent a small fraction of the group. We are the edge case of the edge case.