Mera Lastname
@chimericbeauty.bsky.social
Black Native Transfeminist
Author of assignment theory
she/her 🏳️⚧️ @oddtransfem on Tumblr
Author of assignment theory
she/her 🏳️⚧️ @oddtransfem on Tumblr
Masculinization is a way to pit women and feminized people against each other. It is also a way to make a group of people monsters. It is also a way to make it acceptable to abuse those monsters
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Masculinization is a way to pit women and feminized people against each other. It is also a way to make a group of people monsters. It is also a way to make it acceptable to abuse those monsters
By attributing masculinity to women like me, black or trans or both kinds of women in particular, the patriarchy can direct your attention somewhere else and tell you we're the real oppressors. You may stop fighting them and with all you've been taught implicitly, start fighting us
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
By attributing masculinity to women like me, black or trans or both kinds of women in particular, the patriarchy can direct your attention somewhere else and tell you we're the real oppressors. You may stop fighting them and with all you've been taught implicitly, start fighting us
public and while I confronted her I was told I was aggressive for being mildly stern with her. I realize that the systemic forces that led me into that situation were largely the same, the masculinization of my personhood and my womanhood.
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
public and while I confronted her I was told I was aggressive for being mildly stern with her. I realize that the systemic forces that led me into that situation were largely the same, the masculinization of my personhood and my womanhood.
For black trans women the intersection of masculinization as a result of blackness and masculinization as a result of transfeminization can feel like a circle. I couldn't tell you which parts were transmisogyny and which parts were anti-blackness when a cis white woman assaulted me in
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
For black trans women the intersection of masculinization as a result of blackness and masculinization as a result of transfeminization can feel like a circle. I couldn't tell you which parts were transmisogyny and which parts were anti-blackness when a cis white woman assaulted me in
There's a reason for all of this. Masculinization is a systemic force against all women to dehumanize them and to give the system reasons it's acceptable to treat them as even lesser than pets
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There's a reason for all of this. Masculinization is a systemic force against all women to dehumanize them and to give the system reasons it's acceptable to treat them as even lesser than pets
I've been saying this for years. When I hear my mother say “I can't do or say this because I know my coworkers will take that as me being angry or aggressive and try to put me in my place” those mirror the sentiments I feel and the ones other trans women feel.
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've been saying this for years. When I hear my mother say “I can't do or say this because I know my coworkers will take that as me being angry or aggressive and try to put me in my place” those mirror the sentiments I feel and the ones other trans women feel.
Even with male assignment I believe it is mistaken to assume this is entirely unique and seperate from other women. Where my original reference to transmisogynoir comes from is to talk about how the masculinization of black women looks starkly similar
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Even with male assignment I believe it is mistaken to assume this is entirely unique and seperate from other women. Where my original reference to transmisogynoir comes from is to talk about how the masculinization of black women looks starkly similar
There are internal and external forces that shove trans women into female boxes like male ones. A magnifying glass is held up to you and a cis women when people comment on your body and your femininity
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There are internal and external forces that shove trans women into female boxes like male ones. A magnifying glass is held up to you and a cis women when people comment on your body and your femininity
The trans women I know were socialised as women. We are quiet, many of us have a hard time saying no or standing up for ourselves. Many of us are exploited because we live in a system that makes it easy to extract women's labour. Especially marginalized women's labour.
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The trans women I know were socialised as women. We are quiet, many of us have a hard time saying no or standing up for ourselves. Many of us are exploited because we live in a system that makes it easy to extract women's labour. Especially marginalized women's labour.
Trans women are women not just in the way that anyone can identify as women. Trans women are assigned womanhood from birth when they are told implicitly or explicitly from birth to serve society with their minds and bodies.
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Trans women are women not just in the way that anyone can identify as women. Trans women are assigned womanhood from birth when they are told implicitly or explicitly from birth to serve society with their minds and bodies.
And that people assigned female at birth don't deal with that assignment. In my opinion this sets up a wall between the experiences of trans women and cis women that rather than necessary leaves out an important part of how transmisogyny functions
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And that people assigned female at birth don't deal with that assignment. In my opinion this sets up a wall between the experiences of trans women and cis women that rather than necessary leaves out an important part of how transmisogyny functions
We talk about hypermasculinization in the context of trans women but that concept doesn't exist in a vacuum. Many common sentiments on the marginalization of trans women comes from a place of assuming it solely comes from the assignment of male
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We talk about hypermasculinization in the context of trans women but that concept doesn't exist in a vacuum. Many common sentiments on the marginalization of trans women comes from a place of assuming it solely comes from the assignment of male
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FTM? more like FTD (faggot to dyke)
January 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
FTM? more like FTD (faggot to dyke)
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I'm a woman, that much is true. What comes before that is static, jumbled and incomprehensible.
January 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm a woman, that much is true. What comes before that is static, jumbled and incomprehensible.
I'm a woman, that much is true. What comes before that is static, jumbled and incomprehensible.
January 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I'm a woman, that much is true. What comes before that is static, jumbled and incomprehensible.
Is my place not your problem? Am I simply an issue to be dropped off and forgotten about? Or looked upon with distaste as you imagine me as what I despise most? Or envy? You put me somewhere that would destroy you too.
January 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Is my place not your problem? Am I simply an issue to be dropped off and forgotten about? Or looked upon with distaste as you imagine me as what I despise most? Or envy? You put me somewhere that would destroy you too.
I'm not like them you know. The majority. They don't want me there either. They beat on me and spit on me and rape me because they too are disgusted with what I am. If you won't take me and they won't either, where am I to go?
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I'm not like them you know. The majority. They don't want me there either. They beat on me and spit on me and rape me because they too are disgusted with what I am. If you won't take me and they won't either, where am I to go?
Once I reveal myself suddenly I am an enemy, an other who couldn't possibly understand such a complex and particular experience. I have to gain your approval to be considered among you, otherwise I'm nothing.
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Once I reveal myself suddenly I am an enemy, an other who couldn't possibly understand such a complex and particular experience. I have to gain your approval to be considered among you, otherwise I'm nothing.
I'm supposedly an other, not like you despite the fact that I too hate my name, my body, my voice, the ways others look at me, the way they talk about me, how I was born, all of it. I want to change, I want to become something new like you but I don't get to be either.
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I'm supposedly an other, not like you despite the fact that I too hate my name, my body, my voice, the ways others look at me, the way they talk about me, how I was born, all of it. I want to change, I want to become something new like you but I don't get to be either.