Need the Rescue Snake-Doll Treatment

"Am I, a straight white man in my 80s, behaving incredibly weirdly towards marginalized people? I asked the persona I cultivated in my teens for writing zines (roughly 60 years ago) and he- a gay black man- told me 'slay queen', so I think I'm good!"

inside every transbian is a deep-seeded conflict between the desire for total liberation, and the desire to be a mail-order bride to an older predatory cis lesbian whose house has a room which they are under no circumstances allowed to enter

are finding out that they are not welcome within the interior of these Fascists national body and are considered unfit, socially unhygienic individuals they want eliminated to purify the nationstaat. This is not some abstract rugged individualism at play, that was always a smokescreen.

People abusing the term individualism are going to make me fucking lose my mind. They are not conservative individualists, that was always a fucking lie, they are reactionary Nationalists. The Nation is by definition a collective that exists by defining it's interior and it's exterior, people

When discussing the Paris Commune with Engels, Marx makes no distinction between Communism and Socialism, that's a distinction Lenin made without him. But to Marx value form only persists during the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which precedes lower stage Communism which has been superceded

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.”

Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

Phones don't kill people, Esther. Knives wielded by 15-year-olds who grew up in a culture of bigotry and hate do.

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Also when I was a closeted transfem I went around online spaces going "Hi I'm a closeted transfem" and I managed to make all sorts of queer friends. Trans folks of all genders. Plenty of cis queer women. We do not actually sex-segregate as much as people worry.

Seriously just go fucking hang out.

I don't want to be an asshole but I'm legitimately getting fucking fed up of the terms of popular queer discourse being set primarily from the closet.

My favorite brand of Whacky Online Analysis by far is "Oops! Forgot that cis men exist!"

"men are excluded from queer spaces" do you know about cis gay men, western society's conception of the Default Queer Person?

So many friends can be found in real life queer scenes too, whether you've taken steps towards your social transition or not. You can absolutely hang, you simply have to say it. It is enough just to know you're closeted and questioning.

What's often tough about this is the common assumption that both straight trans women and gay trans men would be less targeted for exploitation in the gay community due to having feminized characteristics, but IME it's closer to the reverse

Kind of funny that we keep rehashing "the existential battle for the inclusion of the trans men in lesbian spaces!" while people just never comment on how violent, abusive, exclusionary gay men's spaces are to both gay trans men and straight trans women lol

The idea of this being 'representative' means they're unable to separate critiques of book categorization/marketing from an affront on their own, actual person and their very identity.

I feel we really have to do away with the term 'queer rep', the phrase seems to make people associate it with queer characters performing good behavior, and also take it as personal attacks when someone says 'M/F and F/M/F are not sapphic' because they think this is 'representative' of themselves.