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or do, i gain power every time i block someone
cats are my own. opinions, however, are received through my nightly communion with the horrorterrors
or do, i gain power every time i block someone
cats are my own. opinions, however, are received through my nightly communion with the horrorterrors
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#njcurj who aren't all men, or white, or skinny, or able bodied. otherwise, we will end up with the continued reification of hegemonic power, but with a new "woke" face at the helm.
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#njcurj who aren't all men, or white, or skinny, or able bodied. otherwise, we will end up with the continued reification of hegemonic power, but with a new "woke" face at the helm.
#njcurj it is not enough to just demand safety and care for trans lives, as those come within the framework of power. who decides what's safe and what's caring? trans liberation will only happen with trans people at the helm, and importantly, trans people who don't all look the same-
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#njcurj it is not enough to just demand safety and care for trans lives, as those come within the framework of power. who decides what's safe and what's caring? trans liberation will only happen with trans people at the helm, and importantly, trans people who don't all look the same-
#njcurj like other forms of reproductive justice, the ability to reproduce queerness and "non-normativity" is of concern to all of us. the devaluing of trans knowledge is representative of the continuing practice of solidifying power over bodies.
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#njcurj like other forms of reproductive justice, the ability to reproduce queerness and "non-normativity" is of concern to all of us. the devaluing of trans knowledge is representative of the continuing practice of solidifying power over bodies.
#njcurj ...where a desire to look different is not assumed to mean a desire to *be* different, and where medical care is not dismissed as simply “cosmetic”.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj ...where a desire to look different is not assumed to mean a desire to *be* different, and where medical care is not dismissed as simply “cosmetic”.
#njcurj what i do believe is that a future without medically (or other structurally) controlled gender transgression will be one where everyone has more say about what their body gets to look like...
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj what i do believe is that a future without medically (or other structurally) controlled gender transgression will be one where everyone has more say about what their body gets to look like...
#njcurj i can't think of a way, though, to cleanly resolve current medical dominion over gender without also dismantling medical authority, or gender, as a whole, which also require dismantling other structures, etc.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj i can't think of a way, though, to cleanly resolve current medical dominion over gender without also dismantling medical authority, or gender, as a whole, which also require dismantling other structures, etc.
#njcurj medical professionals are thus established as the stewards of gender, and trans knowledge is devalued. like any conflict in reproductive justice, this issue is interconnected to others- capitalism, gender, colonialism, etc., and cannot be “fixed” without also addressing those issues.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj medical professionals are thus established as the stewards of gender, and trans knowledge is devalued. like any conflict in reproductive justice, this issue is interconnected to others- capitalism, gender, colonialism, etc., and cannot be “fixed” without also addressing those issues.
#njcurj misogyny is reliant upon, among many aspects, men viewing themselves as fundamentally unlike women and incapable of being similar to, let alone being, one. eliminating transness entirely, though, isnt feasible, so patriarchy instead uses its dominion over reality to define & limit transness.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj misogyny is reliant upon, among many aspects, men viewing themselves as fundamentally unlike women and incapable of being similar to, let alone being, one. eliminating transness entirely, though, isnt feasible, so patriarchy instead uses its dominion over reality to define & limit transness.
#njcurj medical power over trans bodies, for the system of patriarchy, is necessary to enforce reproductive injustice- by way of limiting who is “permitted” to be trans. ideally, within patriarchal logics, transness would not exist period, as it threatens the system’s core tenets of gendered power.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj medical power over trans bodies, for the system of patriarchy, is necessary to enforce reproductive injustice- by way of limiting who is “permitted” to be trans. ideally, within patriarchal logics, transness would not exist period, as it threatens the system’s core tenets of gendered power.
#njcurj this comes out of the same consolidation of medical power we’ve seen in reproductive justice throughout the semester, & indeed a large part of the intracommunal mentoring role occupied by trans professionals is aid in the navigation of an impenetrable if not outright hostile medical system.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj this comes out of the same consolidation of medical power we’ve seen in reproductive justice throughout the semester, & indeed a large part of the intracommunal mentoring role occupied by trans professionals is aid in the navigation of an impenetrable if not outright hostile medical system.
#njcurj the issue malatino focuses on is the simultaneous reliance on the labor of the “professional transsexual” and the devaluing of trans self-and-communal-knowledge. (devaluing both in the economic sense, of these positions often being low or unpaid, and in the epistemological one.)
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj the issue malatino focuses on is the simultaneous reliance on the labor of the “professional transsexual” and the devaluing of trans self-and-communal-knowledge. (devaluing both in the economic sense, of these positions often being low or unpaid, and in the epistemological one.)
#njcurj (this is, of course, not an issue exclusive to transness, and we only have to look to the societal expectations for people of color to explain racism to white people to see an analogue.)
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj (this is, of course, not an issue exclusive to transness, and we only have to look to the societal expectations for people of color to explain racism to white people to see an analogue.)
#njcurj these are not, when they come in the form of a job, necessarily the type of responsibilities listed on a job listing, but rather additional expectations.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj these are not, when they come in the form of a job, necessarily the type of responsibilities listed on a job listing, but rather additional expectations.
#njcurj there, it is used to refer to the role that trans people often- and are often expected to- occupy, whether in community or social service/nonprofit/etc. settings, of being a mentor to other trans people as well as a source of information on transness for cis people, among other expectations.
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#njcurj there, it is used to refer to the role that trans people often- and are often expected to- occupy, whether in community or social service/nonprofit/etc. settings, of being a mentor to other trans people as well as a source of information on transness for cis people, among other expectations.
#njcurj ...to be valued. (i am not, of course, proposing that the attacks on wgst and other fields are actually positive and should be accelerated, but moreso using it as a point from which we can think about structures of knowledge more critically.)
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...to be valued. (i am not, of course, proposing that the attacks on wgst and other fields are actually positive and should be accelerated, but moreso using it as a point from which we can think about structures of knowledge more critically.)
#njcurj ...might then prompt us to consider and imagine visions of a world where knowledge is "shared", rather than "given", and ideas are evaluated individually rather than authority being conferred and hierarchies being established via degrees functioning as "permissions" of whose opinions get...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...might then prompt us to consider and imagine visions of a world where knowledge is "shared", rather than "given", and ideas are evaluated individually rather than authority being conferred and hierarchies being established via degrees functioning as "permissions" of whose opinions get...
#njcurj ...knowledge and reproductive freedom; a big part of that was constructing a monopoly on legitimized forms of knowledge, part of which is rooted in the structures of colleges and degrees. the current gutting of what few progressive fields exist, if we do not immediately give up hope,...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...knowledge and reproductive freedom; a big part of that was constructing a monopoly on legitimized forms of knowledge, part of which is rooted in the structures of colleges and degrees. the current gutting of what few progressive fields exist, if we do not immediately give up hope,...
#njcurj ...situation, but i think it could also be a wake-up call which spurs a rethinking of how we think about knowledge and teaching in the first place. we have discussed this semester the way in which the history of medicine has in many ways been a history of the suppression of cultural...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...situation, but i think it could also be a wake-up call which spurs a rethinking of how we think about knowledge and teaching in the first place. we have discussed this semester the way in which the history of medicine has in many ways been a history of the suppression of cultural...
#njcurj ...rather as the system of state power making use of the use of the tools it already had and relied on the quiet threats of their mere presence to utilize; in other words, firing warning shots when before it was just flashing its holster. obviously we should recognize this as a precarious...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...rather as the system of state power making use of the use of the tools it already had and relied on the quiet threats of their mere presence to utilize; in other words, firing warning shots when before it was just flashing its holster. obviously we should recognize this as a precarious...
#njcurj ...the threat of federal suppression reveals that the education system's ability to teach subversive ideas was always precarious. i think current federal threats should be viewed not as exceptional and characteristic of a deeply horrible administration (though they of course are), but...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...the threat of federal suppression reveals that the education system's ability to teach subversive ideas was always precarious. i think current federal threats should be viewed not as exceptional and characteristic of a deeply horrible administration (though they of course are), but...
#njcurj tacit permission to exist by virtue of it not posing a threat to the current order, and that that permission itself relies on the recognition by all parties that state opposition is possible, and that therefore permission is necessary. applying similar logics to the spread of information,...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj tacit permission to exist by virtue of it not posing a threat to the current order, and that that permission itself relies on the recognition by all parties that state opposition is possible, and that therefore permission is necessary. applying similar logics to the spread of information,...
#njcurj ...to colleges, a concerning one, and i think it exposes the deeper vulnerability and perhaps unviability of academia as a progressive force to see that it is so easily sabotaged. we might say, on the subject of protesting, that a protest unopposed by police presence is one that is given...
May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#njcurj ...to colleges, a concerning one, and i think it exposes the deeper vulnerability and perhaps unviability of academia as a progressive force to see that it is so easily sabotaged. we might say, on the subject of protesting, that a protest unopposed by police presence is one that is given...