ridiculous creature

Our scout troopers and Jedi and Sith posed against the rock crags and forests and in dappled sunlight. We got great pictures.

And every once in a while someone would come around the bend and find something TRULY unexpected.

Most people scrambled backwards or ducked behind the nearest tree, apparently thinking they'd stumbled into a film shoot of some kind. A few took pictures from a distance.

Once we explained, all of them were delighted. How strange. How wonderous. Two little boys took pictures with every single costumer, a woman sat on a rock and just watched, one guy called home to FaceTime his brother.

If you had to navigate the internet in a language you didn't understand and couldn't even read, how would you go about it?

My friend Wesal (@deemagaza) doesn't speak English. The only way she can find her way around the English internet is by using Google Translate or ask others like me for help. It is very difficult for her.

Yet she has no choice but to do so for her daughter Farah, almost sixteen now, who is autistic and has a kidney problem that - without treatment - makes her deficient in potassium, which, if it becomes too severe, can lead to cardiac arrest.

^ Farah spends most of her days like this now, feeling uncomfortable in her body, but not understanding why.

Farah's medication has become unavailable in Gaza, which has endangered her life and means she has to be treated in the hospital, which is costly and where they are running out of resources as well. Farah's case has now been referred to the WHO to be transferred abroad. If the opportunity for evacuation arises, we must make sure the funds are available!

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My family's wound is still bleeding, and my little daughter's illness is greater than words can describe. Please don't hold back your donations, your prayers, or sharing our appeal.Take a step for Farah, for the sake of everything you love. I am a mother who, instead of dreaming about my daughter's future, now dreams only of providing the medicine and every dose she needs to keep her alive.🥹🙏🏻🇵🇸

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Plenty of trans men want to give birth and plenty don't. The ones who do are extremely likely to experience transphobia while giving birth, and the ones who don't will experience it if they ask for contraception or an abortion. This is in addition to the misogyny that occurs when a cis woman wants either of those things.

It doesn't make sense to ask if infertile cis women are less oppressed than cis women who can get pregnant. Everyone sufficiently aware of misogyny to believe misogyny is systemic knows that it comes in multiple forms and that it's about more than just childbearing- women still get paid less and disproportionately passed over for jobs regardless of whether they can get pregnant, for example.

What no one, including women and trans men who want to give birth, wants is to be forced to give birth. The same systems that force people to do so will also often force people not to if they're considered unworthy to parent for any of various reasons- poverty, age, transness, etc- and will take children away for the same reasons whether the parent wanted to give birth or not.

Transphobia doesn't disappear based on different goals/desires or different body parts or different anything, because it isn't about childbearing- it's about control. "If you won't detransition, I'll make your pregnancy and labor experience worse" is one form of coercion, and "If you won't detransition, I'll make you give birth anyway" is another.

It doesn't make sense to ask if infertile cis women are less oppressed than cis women who can get pregnant. Everyone sufficiently aware of misogyny to believe misogyny is systemic knows that it comes in multiple forms and that it's about more than just childbearing- women still get paid less and disproportionately passed over for jobs regardless of whether they can get pregnant, for example.

Yes that's the point I'm making with the rhetorical question, because this is the foundational refutation of "oppression of people with uteruses" rhetoric. You got it. Correct, anon.

Because in my experience, people tell trans women that our lack of gestational capacity is a privilege all the time, and go so far as to insinuate---actually, to openly state that trans women will never experience True Misogyny, or a suffer as much as those who have to struggle with coercive regimes of reproductive exploitation.

Is there a reason that that logic isn't extended to non-trans women who lack gestational capacity?

These are not "gotchas". I am asking you to actually think through how different demographics' and people's relationship to reproductive capacity affects how they experience misogyny, disposability, and other forces under patriarchy.

There's a reason that many, many people don't understand how trans women's unique position as, bluntly, 'defective women' who cannot be reproductively exploited, as well as 'defective men' who are usually unable or unwilling to sire, forms the core of transmisogyny and is the parallel policing mechanism to the forces that those subject to reproductive exploitation experience.

And frankly, it's not trans women who have historically made this a competition about who the true victims of misogyny are. The bulk of scholarship and history is quite invested in the notion that trans women cannot experience misogyny at all.