Rage Rumbles 🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈<p>TRANS AND QUEER DIVERSITY: A QUESTION OF IDEOLOGY?</p><p>(This is a discussion not dogma. Please read it with that proviso.)</p><p>An inherent problem of trans in Western Culture is that it has been conceived as a medicalised existence conforming to an imaginary binary. Trans academics have spoken and written about this (often critically) for several decades now and I have reproduced them in my own work. See, for example, my "five queers of the apocalypse" in part two of my recent book "Black Seeds" (see pinned toot) or Susan Stryker's Transgender Studies Readers. It is, thus, according to some, including myself, a problem that trans is understood as a medicalised existence because that means it is very easy to frustrate. Just ban doctors from helping trans people - as the bigots are catching on to doing now. Then ban people from being able to live publicly as trans. While trans people "just want to fit in" (like the gays who hate to be called queer) it becomes easy to frustrate if you are a bigot with power.</p><p>The argument can be made, however, that both queer and trans should NOT aim to fit in nor aim to ideologically buttress this patriarchal, heteronormative society we live in. (Queer as queer theory, in fact, explicitly sets out to oppose it.) This view posits that queer, trans and nonbinary are original and diverse forms of humanity. A black person, who is many and various anyway for all black people are not alike, is not a white person. So a trans person or a queer person is not, and cannot be, a straight or cis person. The challenge here is to acknowledge this and accept that the human species is more broadly defined, and defined with more diversity, than some will allow. </p><p>You can never engage that battle whilst shying away from it or "simply wanting to fit in". So perhaps we should NOT believe that trans (which, as "trans" specifically, is an entirely modern Western construction to be differentiated from other historical and cultural cross-gendered formulations as many of those cultures rightly insist) is a medicalised state of existence (for anthropologically-funded reasons) but it seems the case that many trans people have ideologically convinced themselves it is because they only see a binary and the need to pick a side in a very specific ideologically constructed whole - and then conform to it.</p><p>Yet a consequence of that ideological capture is that such trans people make themselves hostage to an authoritarian politics and so very easy to control or frustrate. It is not just bigots who need the education here: everybody does. There have been (and still are) cross gender people in evidence for centuries, as some trans historians have detailed, but they weren't all medicalised because the medicalisation was beyond their knowledge and abilities. In other words, thinking of trans in a medicalised way is A CULTURAL ACT. We need to "change the currency" on this and, as a consequence, change trans whilst activating what some would argue is the real, liberatory meaning of "queer".</p><p>Thinking of trans medically is to put yourself in a box you don't control. It makes you dependent. Thinking of gender as picking one of two sides does the same thing. The liberation comes in devising a culture that values us, all of us, as we come to be. Let me put that another way as a question: if the West didn't think about human relations as it does (patriarchally, heteronormatively, binarily) could trans be constructed ideologically as it has been in the West? I suggest not and so argue that in changing the culture we would also change trans in a necessary way.</p><p>Here we need once again to be reminded that freedom is a work of imagination first and foremost.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a></p>
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Rage Rumbles 🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈<p>THE IMPLICATIONS OF "QUEER"</p><p>I have been catching up on the reading of my former (queer) professor and I am happy to find he has continued in being the queer pioneer he always was.</p><p>We are used, if we know anything about "queer", to the slogan "queer means attack". But what is it queer attacks? The essay I read suggests it is "identity". Yes, that's right, in a world chock full of people who want to make the (sometimes essentialising) claim that they simply "are" things, all kinds of queer people and theorists claim that "queer" is that which attacks the very notion of "identity" and destabilises the intellectual ground on which "identity" can seem convincing.</p><p>I am going to write a book next called "Sexual Autonomy". In brief, it is a book about how sexual autonomy is at the heart of political freedom and is, in fact, a necessary component of it. I think the queer insight I just mentioned here is part of that. For we cannot be free if we lock ourselves up in incarcerating notions about sex. </p><p>For example, some people think there are things called "gay sex" and "heterosexual sex". These exist based on the idea that there are definitive "men" and definitive "women". The intellectual position "queer" says no to this. It says these identifications are rhetoric not fact, fiction (which is and can be for purposes) and not inherent reality. Queer says knowledge, all knowledge, is a tool of power and made up to get somewhere rather than reflecting an idealistically conjured "reality". Nature does not distinguish between "gay sex" and "heterosexual sex". There is just sex. Nature does not distinguish between "man" and "woman". There are just humans. Nature does not distinguish between reproductive or recreational sex. There is just sex.</p><p>So what queer says here is "Ask yourself what people are doing with their words and why they imagine the world in one way and not another." There are not only two types of anything (and these two types are not opposites either). Queer, if it is anything, is (expanding) diversity. It (I hope) makes you think.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bi</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pansexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pansexual</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queerwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerwriters</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a></p>
Vasco da Cama<p>🏳️🌈 Exploring intersections of queerness & history • Building Portugal's first digital queer archive</p><p>💫 He/Him or They/them • Polyam • Making history less straight, one document at a time</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistorianInTraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistorianInTraining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>
Nick Hubble<p>Beginning of a blog series on Criticism. Starts with a bit of an autobiographical account of how I actually became critic.<br><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/literarycriticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literarycriticism</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/literarytheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literarytheory</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/sociologyofliterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociologyofliterature</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/criticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticism</span></a> <br><a href="https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/criticism-for-interesting-times-1-introduction-how-i-became-a-critic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prospectiveculture.wordpress.c</span><span class="invisible">om/2025/03/24/criticism-for-interesting-times-1-introduction-how-i-became-a-critic/</span></a></p>
Alon Lischinsky<p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> showcase about to start at work. Join us! <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqia-history-month-research-showcase-tickets-1216718942109?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtqia-his</span><span class="invisible">tory-month-research-showcase-tickets-1216718942109?aff=oddtdtcreator</span></a></p><p>Panellists:</p><p>Natasha Egginton, Doctoral Researcher in Fine Art<br>“Reviving the Act of Social Assembly”</p><p>Ireneusz Koper, Doctoral Researcher in Documentary Film<br>“Documentary Filmmaker as an ACA and LGBT Advocate”</p><p>Lindsay Steenberg, Reader in Film Studies<br>“The Gladiator Film and Queer Classicism"</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/QueerStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerStudies</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/QueerFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerFilm</span></a></p>
QueerNews.at<p>Rena Onat: Queere Künstler_innen of Color. Rezensiert von Prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Voß, 27.01.2025 <a href="https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/33076.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">socialnet.de/rezensionen/33076</span><span class="invisible">.php</span></a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/lgbtiq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtiq</span></a> <a href="https://wien.rocks/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a></p>
Harald Küstermann<p>Die Oligarchen sind auch Aufständische der alten Männlichkeit gegen Feminismus und Queertheorie. <br>Sie bekommen Zustrom an seelischen und geistigen Tributen von den Verunsicherten und Zurückgebliebenen für diese Wiedererrichtung von Cis-Pflicht, Hetero-Pflicht, Macho-Pflicht und Tradwife-Pflicht gegen alle Infragestellungen der letzten Jahrzehnte.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchie</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/m%C3%A4nnlich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>männlich</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cis</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tradwife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradwife</span></a></p>
Tamsin the Reimagined Girl™<p>Hello, anarres.family, all other servers, and all ships at sea!</p><p>Welcome to Tamsin's Pinned Post, which includes a few things you might want to know about me. </p><p>Yes, this is a new instance, which I intend to be my new home on the fediverse... but it's the same old nonsense.</p><p>Please enjoy your stay, unless you're a fascist, a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, or any other flavor of garbage person, in which case please fix your heart or die. Your choice.</p><p>So, who the heck am I?</p><p>Hi! I'm Tamsin: a white <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenX</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonbinary</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a> who likes doorstopper novels, director's cuts of movies, extended remixes of songs and albums, tabletop roleplaying games, 5-string basses, double-cutaway Les Paul Jr. guitars, beaches, forests, mountains, witchy things, late nights, lazy afternoons, writing down half of everything she thinks, and living places that haven't outlawed her.<br> <br>I'm happily monogamously married to a polymath superhero, and we share our lives with my marvelous teenaged offspring, two adorable cats, and a host of delightful friends and co-conspirators.<br> <br>Things I post about, in no particular order: <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexuality</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerness</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> stuff, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/transfeminine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfeminine</span></a> stuff, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchcraft</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TTRPGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPGs</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spirituality</span></a>, making things, and whatever else is going though my brain at any given moment.</p><p>When I talk about gender and sexuality, it's probably helpful to know that I hold a bachelor's degree in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (with a focus on <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> history, queer theory, and trans studies) from the University of Washington. This doesn't make me "right" or "authoritative," but it does mean I've done some reading on the topics. Sometimes I joke that I had to get a degree to realize I'm a gay trans girl... which isn't quite true, but still makes me laugh.</p><p>I'm exactly the kind of person who likes <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ProgRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/PunkRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PunkRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/PostPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostPunk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TripHop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TripHop</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/GirlyPop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GirlyPop</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/DarkFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkFolk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/BlackMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMetal</span></a>, '70s <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/funk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funk</span></a>, old-school <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/RnB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RnB</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/BritishInvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishInvasion</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/ArtRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/AcidRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcidRock</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/AcidFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcidFolk</span></a>, anti-fascist <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/NeoFolk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFolk</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/SingerSongwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingerSongwriter</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blues</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/EarlyMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarlyMusic</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> composers, anime soundtracks, and everything <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prince</span></a> ever recorded. Among other things.</p><p>Sometimes I make things. I craft, I cook, I play (and occasionally run) tabletop role-playing games, I play (and occasionally write) music and songs. Most of all, though, I write: essays, poetry, stories, and—this one time at band camp, when I was feeling particularly sassy—a whole-ass book about gender, sexuality, queerness, and magic for witches, Pagans, occultists, and devotional polytheists. (If you want to check it out, there's a link in my bio to the publisher's page.)</p><p>Politically, I started out as a liberal in the 1980s, but—flying in the face of conventional wisdom—became increasingly leftist as time went by. I believe all life is sacred, hegemony and hierarchy are intrinsically inclined towards abuse, and bodily autonomy is fundamental to human rights. I believe people can own and control things, but that people are not things. As such, I believe fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism are all evils of the human heart. I support <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/UniversalHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalHealthcare</span></a>, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UBI</span></a>, BLM, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a>, indigenous rights, <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a>, queer resistance, sex workers, undocumented and migrant rights, disability rights, autistic people, plural folks, defunding the police, and radical inclusivity. Whatever name fits those beliefs, that's what I am. I'm not a wholly uncritical leftist, though, and I'm probably not ideologically pure enough for most movements. (Then again, I'm a futch-y trans <a href="https://anarres.family/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lesbian</span></a>, so many leftist movements don't want me around anyway.)</p><p>About following: I'm trying to be intentional and judicious in how I use social media, so here's the deal: folks are welcome to follow my account here, but I don't automatically follow people back. That's not a judgement on you, please understand. It's an acknowledgement that I have a limited amount of mental and social bandwidth, and it's easy for me to get overwhelmed by my social media feed if I don't tend it aggressively.</p><p>The odds of me following you back are significantly higher if...<br>• you have a bio I find interesting,<br>• you're somewhere under the rainbow (LGBTQIA2S+),<br>• we share interests in common,<br>AND/OR<br>• you interact with my posts in a positive way often enough that I think, "hey, I like so-and-so, I think I'll send them a follow request."</p><p>The last condition might override any of the previous three, but the previous three do sway things, just saying. Regardless, anyone's welcome to follow my posts here.</p><p>Okay, I think that's about enough for now. Further updates as events warrant, or as I think of them.</p><p>Cheers! 💕</p>
PsyPost<p>Women’s implicit preferences reveal surprisingly high levels of gynephilia <a href="https://www.psypost.org/womens-implicit-preferences-reveal-surprisingly-high-levels-of-gynephilia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/womens-implicit-pr</span><span class="invisible">eferences-reveal-surprisingly-high-levels-of-gynephilia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gynephilia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gynephilia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SexualFluidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexualFluidity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>[thread] Judith Butler [they/them] 🙏 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ♀️<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_B</span><span class="invisible">utler</span></a><br><a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/judith-butler" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vcresearch.berkeley.edu/facult</span><span class="invisible">y/judith-butler</span></a></p><p>* Am. feminist philosopher; gender studies scholar<br>* infl. political philosophy/ethics/3rd-wave feminism/queer theory/literary theory<br>* supporter, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights<br>* Who's Afraid of Gender? explores roots of current anti-trans rhetoric, a "phantasm" that aligns with emerging authoritarian movements</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JudithButler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JudithButler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenderStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransgenderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a></p>
FID Anglo-American Culture<p>"Writing during the Disasters" is a new book by Marius Henderson on suffering in contemporary <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AmericanPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanPoetry</span></a> applying <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AffectTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AffectTheory</span></a>, <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a>, Black Feminism & more to the works of 7 poets and 1 artist collective</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/LiteraryStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryStudies</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AmericanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanLiterature</span></a><br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AmericanStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanStudies</span></a></p>
M<p>The countersexual manifesto continually proves it's truth/efficacy through my living body.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/countersexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>countersexual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/preciado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preciado</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerness</span></a></p>
M<p>Keratin is not inherently erotic, but nothing is inherently anything. Except able to connect and become (changed) through its connections. And the keratin in m(y) nails, connected to the rest of the body-i-am, connected to the history of said body and to said body's intimacies with queer theory, that keratin is becoming an erotic material. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/keratin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keratin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/erotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erotic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/becoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>becoming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>body</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerness</span></a></p>
M<p>If i, in this moment in time, were in the business of describing m(y) sexuality over the past couple months (and very probably the future ones as well), the “queer” of queer theory would be an effective concept to do so. </p><p>*see pinned posts for elaboration on 'i' and 'm(y)': <a href="https://mastodon.social/@m_enby/113143466411433179" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@m_enby/113143</span><span class="invisible">466411433179</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexuality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queertheory</span></a></p>
Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D.<p>Why does <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> appear to ignore the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> experience? It isn't because scientists fail to recognize <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a> in their studies, but because political preferences calcified into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dogma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogma</span></a> are dressed up as "science" in Western society.</p><p><a href="https://genderidentitytoday.com/science-doesnt-need-queer-theory/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">genderidentitytoday.com/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e-doesnt-need-queer-theory/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenderIdentityToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderIdentityToday</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mtf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransgenderWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderWoman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransWoman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenderIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderIdentity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupportWithAmi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupportWithAmi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenderIdentitySupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderIdentitySupport</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AskAmethysta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskAmethysta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceOfIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceOfIdentity</span></a></p>
lainy📈 Just published in @QueerTheoryMag: “Re-centering Huge Milky Tits in Queer Discourse” 🍼🌈<br><br>Traditional patriarchal narratives have long objectified female bodies, but cisnormative queer theory has often sidestepped the radical potential of huge milky tits. As a non-binary, lactose-tolerant scholar, I argue that embracing and interrogating the power dynamics of HMTs can challenge systems of oppression & reaffirm queerness as fluid & inclusive.<br><br>📚 Cite me: 🧛♂️ “HMTQD”: A Post-humanist Feminist Take on Queer Body Politics (2024)<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://lain.com/tag/queertheory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerTheory</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lain.com/tag/bodypositivity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BodyPositivity</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lain.com/tag/milkjunkie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilkJunkie</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://lain.com/tag/academiaissexy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademiaIsSexy</a> 🔥💪📚
Mx Verda<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2ScNPKwO4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2ScNPKwO</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p>I liked Mia Mulder’s vid on it. Institutionalisation should always be with fully informed, non-coerced consent, where remotely possible. <br>One simple test might be: let the staff stay in the incarceration facilities for a week. If they don’t want to, ask them why not? Would they want someone they love to stay there, and why or why not?</p><p>Many diagnoses are just checklists created and used by people who read a lot of books, wrote a few papers, and had other similar people vouch for their understanding of the fundamentals (as they understood them at the time). <br>While practical work and dedicated study are important and valuable, so is the lived experience and personal interpretation of the people directly affected.</p><p>Within the past few months, I had someone diagnose me with mixed personality disorder. What I expect they did not note was that this interaction was based on talking to me for 40 minutes after I’d had 4 hours of sleep, with no context from my partner or anyone else who knew me. <br>They did not look at the extensive notes I was asked to bring. Finally, the appointment started late because reception did not inform the clinician I’d arrived. First topic of conversation? Neither of us knew what the appointment was for.</p><p>I know the NHS has been defunded for decades, mental healthcare is deprioritised, and my many intersections of identity make it difficult to find any professional who wouldn’t need at least 3 full hours to get a baseline understanding of my experiences. Equally: that’s not my problem.</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Mentalillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mentalillness</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/psychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychiatry</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trauma</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/cptsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cptsd</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/schizophrenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>schizophrenia</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/delusions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>delusions</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/hallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/pathology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pathology</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/institutionalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>institutionalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/marginalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marginalisation</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> omg <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/queory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queory</span></a> for <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/queerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerTheory</span></a> I love it</p>
AnCuRuadh ΔΘ :verified_trans:<p>Cis people are divided into "gay" vs. "straight." </p><p>Trans people are divided into "identifies with AGAB gay people" vs. "does not identify with AGAB gay people."</p><p>These are both, imo, fundamental social divisions, of comparable role and significance, within the respective groups. Thoughts, anyone?</p><p><a href="https://awwter.online/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Theory</span></a> <a href="https://awwter.online/tags/Feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feminism</span></a> <a href="https://awwter.online/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a></p>
Sheepchase<p>Really interesting academic article. Well worth a read to understand not just a critique of applying homonationalism to Taiwan, but also Israel, including assertions of ‘Pinkwashing’.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/taiwan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/tongzhi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tongzhi</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/homonationalism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homonationalism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/pinkwashing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pinkwashing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/mazeldon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mazeldon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/jewdiverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jewdiverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/queertheory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QueerTheory</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/lgbtq" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://chai.kibbutz.gay/tag/queer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Queer</a></p><p><a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/6/2/article-p261_003.xml?language=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/6/2/article-p261_003.xml?language=en</a></p>
Isabel Richards<p>Just wrapped up day one of the University of New England’s online <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barbie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barbie</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conference</span></a> and it’s FANTASTIC!!! 🎀👡💅 So many great papers with my favs so far including ones on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QueerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerTheory</span></a> (eg Ken as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transmasc</span></a>, Barbieland as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/asexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asexual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>utopia</span></a>), Gerwig’s movie as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fable</span></a>, Barbie and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BondiBeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BondiBeach</span></a>, and representations of nonhuman <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a> in Barbie worlds. My brain is exploding rn. Barbie is a piece of pop culture you can interrogate through so many lenses!!! 🤩🤩</p>
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