You made a post gesturing toward transfeminists whose names start with Ta and try to use the term "Radfem" having thrown more marginalized transfems under the bus, and am I correct in thinking that one might be Talia? I'm fairly new getting into transfeminist theory and really liked her writing, did I miss something? (genuine question, I know who the other Ta is and if Talia is that bad then YIKES)
Re: Talia Bhatt
So to be upfront, I have VERY personal beef with Talia Bhatt as she helped spread my HAL to save her own skin, but that’s secondary here. I have an “impersonal” issue of her antiblackness, harassment of Black transfeminists, and attempt to officially revise her antiblackness into a “transmisogynist accusation” while hiding the actual details to highlight (I was not involved personally back then), as well as my personal experiences.
1. Antiblackness and transmisogynoir
Documentation and primary sourcing on this is minimal because most accounts discussing it across platforms have since gone private or deactivated, but I was able to acquire some to share including accounts from Black transfeminists active and involved at the time.
Circa 2024, Talia had a personal transfeminist discord that underwent a major split explicitly because of antiblackness within her server that she defended, instigated by a trans woman posting Nazi shit on Twitter. After this was addressed publicly by Keeks (absolvedhistory), a Black transfeminist, her and her faction proceeded to harass Keeks and other Black transfeminists, accusing the addressal of antiblackness to simply be transmisogyny.
Below posted with permission
On top of that, she later used an academic article to revise the history of her antiblackness and what occurred. I share the following screenshots rather than going and getting fresh ones mainly because this is what I already have in my phone and doing this shit is exhausting.
There’s also a public post from another transfeminist speaking on what was known of this incident in Transfeminist circles at the time.
So yeag I think, objectively, that she’s antiblack and transmisogynoiristic and her transfeminism is kinda worthless due to that outside of very specific and limited applications. It’s also wild to me how, because antiblackness is seen as not a serious issue beyond giving it empty acknowledgement within non-black anglophone transfeminism, she was able to not just be antiblack, but have it almost completely erased from the internet so she can be viewed solely as a “good” transfeminist theorist of color who’s books are in bookstores and is regularly talked about in the same sentences as Serano, etc.
My PERSONAL shit with Talia and additional reasons I think her transfeminism is worthless due to her being willing to throw it away on a whim will be in a reblog of this post, because tumblr mobile has a 10 image limit.
