She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
"I literally go psychotic when I'm off T and on E, I think maybe E is poison for me personally" "OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT THIS IS HARMFUL TO TRANS--"
"I literally go psychotic when I'm off T and on E, I think maybe E is poison for me personally" "OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT THIS IS HARMFUL TO TRANS--"
Kate Bornstein, 1996
Kate Bornstein, 1996
There is a reason this history is suppressed. It is inconvenient to the revisionist historical narratives of the wealthy and powerful.
Learning this (my) history opened my eyes.
A (probably very long) thread. 🧵
There is a reason this history is suppressed. It is inconvenient to the revisionist historical narratives of the wealthy and powerful.
Learning this (my) history opened my eyes.
A (probably very long) thread. 🧵
- CSA survivors who attack or even kill their abusers in self defense
- CSA survivors who happen to be men
- CSA survivors who survive incestuous abuse
- CSA survivors who attack or even kill their abusers in self defense
- CSA survivors who happen to be men
- CSA survivors who survive incestuous abuse
they want to make gendered examples of us as a threat to others
If a transmasc dies, the media often just calls us women, completely erasing our transition, our lifename, and our history.
All of this is to say that while violence against transfems is loud - a warning, violence against transmascs is often quiet - handling an embarrassment privately.
Invisibility is not safety.
they want to make gendered examples of us as a threat to others
cis abusers know this and weaponize it constantly
cis abusers know this and weaponize it constantly
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I find this to be one of the greatest narrative failures of trans movement work.
If trans people are who we say we are, some of us will be men. They aren't less trans.
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Transmascs are erased.
Transmascs are erased by a deadly combination of misogyny, anti-transness, reproductive role and toxic masculinity that I term "anti-transmasculinity".
Absence is not indicative of safety.
Absence is erasure, and erasure is death.
Transmascs are erased.
Transmascs are erased by a deadly combination of misogyny, anti-transness, reproductive role and toxic masculinity that I term "anti-transmasculinity".
Absence is not indicative of safety.
Absence is erasure, and erasure is death.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.