Carla M. Lee
@carlamlee.bsky.social
author. artist. attorney*.
*Not yours.
*Not yours.
Pinned
Carla M. Lee
@carlamlee.bsky.social
· Mar 8
February was excellent for reading. Plain Bad Heroines, the wilderness of girls, and Stay In The Light were A+++, the rest of the fiction mostly fantastic fun, and the illustrated On Tyranny beautiful if also terrible (terribly true). #storygraph
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
Speculative Whiteness by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is quotable, thoroughly researched, and damning towards the type of science fiction that has empowered alt-right thinkers.
The must-read book about SFF of the year
Available in full as an open-access text! manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
11/17
The must-read book about SFF of the year
Available in full as an open-access text! manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
11/17
Speculative Whiteness | Manifold @uminnpress
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision r...
manifold.umn.edu
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Speculative Whiteness by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is quotable, thoroughly researched, and damning towards the type of science fiction that has empowered alt-right thinkers.
The must-read book about SFF of the year
Available in full as an open-access text! manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
11/17
The must-read book about SFF of the year
Available in full as an open-access text! manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...
11/17
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"
😡 😡 😡
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
www.advocate.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
The "trans debate" has always been about defining "womanhood" as specifically being abled, thin, pretty cishet white women.
Any woman who does not have a lock on abled cishet white patriarchs calling her "pretty" is not a woman.
Men who can't hit women have no rules about hitting Not Women.
Any woman who does not have a lock on abled cishet white patriarchs calling her "pretty" is not a woman.
Men who can't hit women have no rules about hitting Not Women.
Non-white women are going to be accused of being masculine or gaining an edge, when they defeat white women who fit the western ideals of femininity.
All that white women will need to do is accuse their non-white opponent of not being a woman. And men will come to destroy her to feel “protective”.
All that white women will need to do is accuse their non-white opponent of not being a woman. And men will come to destroy her to feel “protective”.
Yeah this wasn't on my radar until last summer's Paris Olympics and the meltdown on social media over the Algerian boxer. It made the connection for me how the trans women in sports freak out circles around to controlling all women. Absolutely morbid. And eye opening.
March 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The "trans debate" has always been about defining "womanhood" as specifically being abled, thin, pretty cishet white women.
Any woman who does not have a lock on abled cishet white patriarchs calling her "pretty" is not a woman.
Men who can't hit women have no rules about hitting Not Women.
Any woman who does not have a lock on abled cishet white patriarchs calling her "pretty" is not a woman.
Men who can't hit women have no rules about hitting Not Women.
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about men’s confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
March 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about men’s confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports.
Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.
February was excellent for reading. Plain Bad Heroines, the wilderness of girls, and Stay In The Light were A+++, the rest of the fiction mostly fantastic fun, and the illustrated On Tyranny beautiful if also terrible (terribly true). #storygraph
March 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
February was excellent for reading. Plain Bad Heroines, the wilderness of girls, and Stay In The Light were A+++, the rest of the fiction mostly fantastic fun, and the illustrated On Tyranny beautiful if also terrible (terribly true). #storygraph
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
We won’t disappear just because you change a website.
February 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We won’t disappear just because you change a website.
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
February 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
It was a good reading month. Only one disappointment and several ones I loved. (I track using @thestorygraph.com.)
February 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
It was a good reading month. Only one disappointment and several ones I loved. (I track using @thestorygraph.com.)
Reposted by Carla M. Lee
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
January 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...