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— DERRY GIRLS 2.03 — FLEABAG 2.03

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Even if it meant just "not trans" it still wouldn't make sense. The logic of gender is that it is extremely personal, subjective, virtually infinite, basically 'whatever you want it to be', so neither trans nor cis can be defined or definite, and are therefore meaningless, especially when applied to others.

If you accept the premise that sex is either a spectrum or personally subjective too, which a lot of proponents of these terms do, it's even more meaningless.

if you don't like the term "cisgender" being used for you, why?

• it's more like a slur

• it's female erasure

• it's an insult

• it's an insult sometimes, but if it just means what they say it means, I'm fine with it

• other

• im cis and I don't care if somebody calls me cis

• I'm trans/see results

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"seremosresistencia: VIVA O CINEMA BRASILEIRO!"

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Fernanda Torres and Viola Davis, Golden Globe Awards (2025)

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" I want to dedicate it to my mother. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like a proof that art can endure through life"

Fernanda Torres dedicating her Golden Globes Best Actress win to her mother Fernanda Montenegro

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FERNANDA TORRES Winner of the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award for "I'm Still Here" during the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Award (Jan 05, 2025)

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Fernanda Torres wins Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama during the 82nd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025.

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The woke left wants me to believe that fuckass dress is blue and black

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JFC. Those texts 😳 May they all rot in hell

Heck one of the rapists missed his child’s birth because he was being a rapist.

Imagine missing the birth of your child because you were too busy raping an unconscious Gisele Pelicot. Legitimately one of the most depraved things I’ve ever heard.

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Any similarity is mere coincidence:

The more a man makes a stink of being an advocate for women...

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my toxic trait is that i genuinely believe that the side effects of immortality won't affect me. i have so much stuff i want to learn i won't even notice the centuries go by. also i'm nosey as hell so the decades-deep gossip would keep myself from isolating from human society because i want to know what's going on. i would make such a good vampire i stand by this

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common anti hater sentiment re: literature is "if youre reading at all youre doing good" but if youre reading shit like this you are cooked youre done for

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Rest In Peace Debrina Kawam

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/nyregion/coney-island-subway-burning-victim-identified.html

Debrina Kawam of Toms River, N.J., was burned alive on Dec. 22 in a videotaped killing that shocked New York.

By Chelsia Rose MarciusAndy Newman and Shayla Colon

Published Dec. 31, 2024 Updated Jan. 1, 2025

Investigators have learned the name of a woman who was burned alive — and beyond recognition — aboard a Brooklyn train last week.

The police identified the woman as Debrina Kawam of Toms River, N.J. She was the victim of an apparently random attack captured in videos that showed her bracing herself against the doorway of an F train in Coney Island, her body engulfed by flames. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, has been accused of setting fire to Ms. Kawam with a lighter and was charged with first-degree murder and arson.

Ms. Kawam’s identity was confirmed on Monday through fingerprint analysis, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner’s office. Ms. Kawam was 57, though police officials initially had said she was 61.

Mayor Eric Adams said at a news conference at City Hall on Tuesday that she briefly stayed in the city’s homeless shelter system. “No matter where she lived, that should not have happened,” Mr. Adams said.

Just watching that tape — I couldn’t even watch it all the way through,” he added.

Investigators had used every means possible to identify the woman, the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, said at a news conference last week. They took her fingerprints and collected DNA evidence. They gathered surveillance footage from the subways, hoping to find a clear image of the woman’s face before the fire.

The fragmentary traces Ms. Kawam left behind in yearbooks and public records sketch a troubled life.

She appeared to have graduated from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, N.J., four decades ago. Her yearbook entry from 1985 — illustrated with a photo of her with long, feathered hair — mentioned memories of freshman and sophomore cheerleading and trips to the shore. It listed her ambition as airline stewardess and said that her “secret ambition” was “to party forever.” In a senior poll, she was one of three girls voted “most punk” and one of three girls voted “million-dollar smile.”

A 1985 yearbook photo shows Debrina Kawam, the victim of an apparently random attack on the New York subway.

Credit...US School Yearbook

According to Ms. Kawam’s Facebook profile, she studied business and marketing at Montclair State University; a spokesman for the school said Wednesday that he could not immediately confirm her attendance. From 2000 to 2002, when she was in her 30s, Ms. Kawam was a customer service representative for the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck, a company spokeswoman said.

But municipal court records going back 20 years include dozens of minor cases against a Debrina Kawam in cities and towns along the Jersey Shore, in Jersey City and in the suburbs of New York. Most were citations for public drinking, trespassing or disorderly conduct, including the most recent, in July, for public drinking in Atlantic City.

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In a 2008 bankruptcy filing, she wrote that she had not been working “due to illness.” After her father, William Kawam, died in 2009, she posted on a tribute page that he was the best father a daughter could have had, and that “I will always regret that it took me later in life to figure that out.”

Roxann Krammer, a Toms River resident, said that her late husband, George Krammer, had been Ms. Kawam’s romantic partner from about 2011 to 2014 and that they had lived together. The relationship, her husband had told her, had been chaotic.

The police gave an address for Ms. Kawam in Toms River, a small, gray one-story home that had been owned by the victim’s mother in a sprawling retirement community. A neighbor said that until the house was sold in 2024, she would see an older woman and someone Ms. Kawam’s age coming and going.

The older woman seemed to be taking care of the younger woman, who appeared disabled, and would lead her by the hand, said the neighbor, Valerie Waskiewicz.

“I had the impression that the older woman had her hands full taking care of the younger woman,” she said.

The current owner of the home, Olga Corpion, said she had never met Ms. Kawam or her mother, but that in May, shortly after she moved in, a stranger came to her door.

“She said ‘I’m Debrina, I want to see my mother,’” Ms. Corpion recalled. Ms. Corpion said it seemed odd that someone would not know that her mother had moved and Ms. Corpion said that Ms. Kawam seemed troubled. She said she offered to call Ms. Kawam with information about her mother, but Ms. Kawam told her she had no phone and quickly left.

Ms. Kawam was in New York City as early as April 28, when the police issued her a summons in Midtown Manhattan for drinking on a public sidewalk, according to city records. She was scheduled to appear in June, but did not show up. Her social service records show that she stayed at a women’s shelter in the Bronx from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2.

On Dec. 22, around 7:30 a.m., Ms. Kawam was sitting motionless on a subway train, apparently asleep, when Mr. Zapeta-Calil walked up, took out a lighter and set her on fire, according to prosecutors and the police. He then stepped out of the train and sat on a bench on the subway platform, staring as the smoke and flames overwhelmed Ms. Kawam, the police said.

Then, video of the incident shows a man who appears to be Mr. Zapeta-Calil rising and approaching Ms. Kawam. Instead of trying to douse the blaze, he waves a shirt at her, appearing to fan the flames. At least one police officer can be seen walking by her as people on the platform scream.

Officers who came to the scene did not appear to focus on Mr. Zapeta-Calil sitting on the bench as they tended to Ms. Kawam. But their body cameras had captured him and the clothes he wore: a gray, hooded sweatshirt; a wool hat; tan boots; and paint-splattered pants.

The Police Department released the photos publicly and soon after, three teenagers called 911. They said they had recognized Mr. Zapeta-Calil from the photos and that he was aboard another train in Brooklyn. The police ordered the train stopped and arrested him.

The authorities do not believe Ms. Kawam and Mr. Zapeta-Calil knew each other. She was already on the train when he boarded it in Queens, and they both rode to the end of the line in Coney Island, the official added, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity. People often sleep on subway trains in cold weather; the outside temperature on the morning Ms. Kawam was killed was 16 degrees.

Mr. Zapeta-Calil is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who was deported in 2018 only to illegally return to the United States, according to federal immigration officials.

The suspect had been living for the past couple of months at a shelter in Brooklyn for men with drug and alcohol problems, according to the police and residents of the shelter. A grand jury indicted him last week on first-degree murder, second-degree murder and arson charges.

After Mr. Zapeta-Calil’s arrest, federal officials issued two immigration detainers, according to Jeffrey Carter, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Detainers are requests to the police and the city Department of Correction that they notify the federal agency before Mr. Zapeta-Calil’s court case is done and is released from jail.

City sanctuary laws prevent city agencies from sharing immigration information about defendants with federal officials, including when they will be released from police custody or from jail. However, the laws let the agencies tell ICE about noncitizens who have been convicted of any of 177 serious offenses, including rape and felony assault.

Susan C. Beachy contributed research. Shayla Colon reported from Toms River, N.J.

Chelsia Rose Marcius is a criminal justice reporter for The Times, covering the New York Police Department. More about Chelsia Rose Marcius

Andy Newman writes about New Yorkers facing difficult situations, including homelessness, poverty and mental illness. He has been a journalist for more than three decades. More about Andy Newman

Shayla Colon is a reporter covering New York City and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers. More about Shayla Colon

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first dnf of the year. may god grant me the serenity to finish the books i am struggling with, the courage to dnf the books i won't get anything out of, and the wisdom to know the difference :-)

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I don't understand the point of your OP (or your glee at the hypothetical you'd "own" a radfem).

If you read radical feminists you would know the answer is no, that if it's ever possible for a males to be fitted with synthetic wombs and carry a healthy pregnancy to term this would have no impact on what a woman is, on the history and contemporary expression of female oppression, or on core radical feminist values. If anything, it would reinforce a lot of them.

The rest of the reblogs by and large just pointed out the naïveté of your premise.

I’ve seen so many terfs & transmisics just flat out refuse to think about near-future medical procedures (like uterus implants for transwomen, or growing trans people functional organs from stem cells, etc), like a willful, desperate, bindspot. Presumably because the idea they could happen at all is just completely incompatible with their worldview. And honestly imagining them twisting themselves into pretzels over them when they happen is just *chef’s kiss* perfection.