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mzakharuk.bsky.social
Them's the essay if you're curious, but you don't need to read it for this thread per se: thirdsexedinsurrection.substack.com/p/that-way-l...
That Way Lies Sorrow: Notes from a Nonbinary Transsexual
A meditation on manhood, medicalization, and metamorphosis.
thirdsexedinsurrection.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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shadell.itch.io
Florence Ashley’s response really nailed the bitterness of it all imo.

www.tsqnow.online/post/reflect...
Reflecting on the Affective Dimensions of the “Transamorous Man” Backlash
BY FLORENCE ASHLEY
www.tsqnow.online
January 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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shadell.itch.io
Apologies for jumping in, but I saw no one else had yet.

Bonnie Mann's open letter to Lierre Keith is something a friend had me read recently. A radical feminist arguing that gender is a sex-class system, but not reducible to a sex-class system.

profile.uoregon.edu/sites/defaul...

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"But maybe gender is more complicated too, and here is where I want to argue for a critical radical feminism, one that recognizes that gender is a sex-class system, but not only that. Yes we are born into gender, assigned to positions of relative power and powerlessness that deeply influence what happens next ("It's a girl!" "It's a boy!"). These relations are material through and through, meaning they are meant to determine who does what kind of work, who has what kinds of power. Ask my students, I torture them with this. But first, even this structured power is crossed and vexed by other structures of power (most obviously race and class) QUoted from the linked article. Second, we also live, we also negotiate and take up and resist and contest or affirm these strucutres in complex ways and sometimes deeply individual, creative and unique ways. Gender as a lived reality doesn't always perfectly follow the path of power that gender as a sex-class system outlines. For example, to be a "boy" who resists his gender assignation is to experience punishment, not privilege, in most contexts. I think that to be assigned a gender is to be assigned a way of having a world. I think a lot of us don't manage to feel at home in that assignation, we push back, we suffer through it, we make fun of it, we live it in resistant ways. Maybe trans folk aren't at home in the way of having a world that is assigned to them. Maybe it becomes unbearable. Maybe one seeks a way of living, a way of having a world that is bearable. Maybe we actually ahve something in common here. Third, gender is a structure of the imaginary domain that reflects, but also exceeds gender as sex-class system. Maybe gender takes on a life of its own in the imaginary domain that both reflects relations of power, invests desire and affect and moral convictions with/in power and also sometimes twists free of power in certain spaces, at certain times, fleeting and illusive as these moments and spaces may be.
December 31, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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missjuniper.bsky.social
I've written YOU KISS LIKE A ROCKET! missjuniper.itch.io/you-kiss-lik...
Two trans mech pilots are set out to hunt each other down at the edge of the solar system. Dueling, fistfights, and a kiss ensues.
Or: two trans girls find they love each other; five dead, seven mechs destroyed
YOU KISS LIKE A ROCKET by MissJuniper
A Mecha Novella of Romance, Sad Women, and Crossed Blades
missjuniper.itch.io
December 30, 2024 at 10:40 PM