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badlywritingmagazine · 2 months ago

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Invitation to Submit

I made a directory of transfeminist writing for a transfeminist group I was in. Seeing the texts and questions travel was amazing, but some things felt bare. Of the texts by trans women we compiled, very few of the texts labelled themselves as transfeminist. Personal essays were common, but I felt some bite their tongue. Personal writing is of feminist importance, but this description of trans female writing is so regular that it reads almost as a refusal of her ability to form politics from personal experience. These texts were most often published in precarious forms: magazines first-person and blogs. Others were published under the heading of ‘trans’ but fitted some parts of that word uncomfortably; there’s only so much you can say when you must also speak for a man. Those texts that were nominally transfeminist focused on the body and bodily autonomy.

Why bodily autonomy, rather than simply autonomy? All women need all forms of autonomy. All sex is socially constructed. Why was I asked to describe myself as subjected specifically at the site of the body? And it is always ‘the’ body and not my body? What other kind of autonomy is being ignored? Freedom to think?

Transfeminine people are not allowed to talk about our own experiences in our terms: trans women are important to almost everyone for their identity claims. Men and women of all sorts have some vested interest in what we think about our experiences. Speaking frankly and directly about transfeminine life gets abuse. Transfeminine responses to the world are swatted down. Without a degree of intra-transfeminine discussion and privacy, the chance to think together is slim.

Writing Badly is a new journal of letters on the subject of transmisogyny and transfeminism.

It welcomes submissions of any length for annual publication. The first submission deadline is Hogmanay, December 31st 2024, for publication on spring equinox, 20th March 2025. It accepts submissions in any textual form (essay, letter, poetry, dialogue, prose, etc. both fiction and non-fiction) and of any length. There is no requirement to be particularly academic or formal, and tentative thoughts-towards style essays are welcome. It encourages form bending, breaking, and remaking. Dialogue (think After Trans Studies, Chu 2019, or don’t), anecdote (Anecdotal Theory, Jane Gallop 2002, or don’t), and speculative history (Jules Gill-Peterson 2023, or don’t) are especially invited. Make your own questions, but here are some jumping-board topics to get you started:

What are you doing, as a transfeminist? Tell us ways to be in support of each other. Materially? I’ll republish anything you think needs posterity. What does a feminist radical therapy programme look like for girlslikeus? Read the books, and tell me how you can apply it in your community.

Is there a transfeminine way of looking? Engaging with space? Can you identify a transfeminine lens or subjectivity in the work of other trans women? Is there a transfeminine art? If so, what does it mean? Here’s some names: Ada Patterson, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, Lulu Sainsbury, Tourmaline, Juliana Huxtable, biogal, Willow Killeen.

Do you have readings, reviews or criticism of work by transfeminine people? (Susan Stryker has an anthology coming out this year, or Nat Raha on trans femme futures) Or of interest to? (Feminism against Cisness is just about to come out too). Read something recently that claims to speak to you but doesn’t? Tell me what’s wrong with it. Is there writing nominally about trans womanhood that is really about something else? (I’m thinking here about Nevada and Tell Me I’m Worthless and their respective national projects, but have your own ideas). Can you situate an aspect of transmisogyny in the colonial project?

Do you have writing about your life that would be rejected elsewhere? Because it reifies a transfeminine subjectivity? I’ve written transmisogyny and transfeminism in this text, but feel free to write to me with texts simply and directly about life as a woman, and your work as a feminist.

Can you write something that gives an avenue, a route, to care and be cared for as a transgender woman?

Can you critique and expand on the conception of transfeminisation given by Jules Gills-Peterson in a short history of transmisogyny (2023)? JGP frames trans womanhood as a colonial project put over the lives of colonised transfeminised peoples. What does this mean for how we tell ‘trans history’? How can we tell transfeminist history as race traitors and abolitionists? Do we have obligations against trans-ing history?

Our society, in the past 10 to 100 years or so, depending on how you ask the question, has become the first to consistently call, very crudely speaking, a man who turns into a woman, and a woman who turns into a man by the same name - trans. With the importance placed on trans now, how can we think about its historical exceptionality? What does it signify? What are the actual shared material interests and where do they diverge? What are the limits of trans as a political marriage? As a theoretical one? Can we situate the formation of trans in the colonial project? Misogyny? What about aspects of trans studies? Do you have an example of bad transgender activism? How is it bad? What bad transgender activism shows an assumed male default in transgender discourse? Can you elaborate on where white traitors and race abolitionists have obligations against some formulations of trans as a political project (binaohan in decolonizing trans/gender 101 (2014))?

Got a queer theory ax to grind? Is Butler’s account of violence against trans women too centred in what men say about violence against trans women? What could a transfeminist close reading of Halberstam achieve? Does Sedgewick have it all backwards? Queering phenomenology? Queer time and geography? Queer futurity? Can you give a transfeminist response to the staple lens of queerness developed in the past decades?

We often ask the question What does trans mean for us as feminists? What can we say as trans women, behind closed doors, in response to this question, that we cannot say elsewhere? Why is transgender activism like that? How is transgender activism failing? What are the limits, again, of that political union? Can you talk about sexism in transgender social reproduction? In DIY culture?

Is there something going on in culture right now that tells us something about transmisogyny? Can you rant? Can you pick apart the transmisogyny of something? Do you have an anecdote that elucidates life as a trans woman? If you’ve been around the block or came out a while ago, tell us some stories. Can you give an oral history? People got double comfortable with staring and asking questions at some point. How has the surveillance of gender changed? Can you do us-centred history?

What are white trans women (+etc.) doing in (trans) activism that is really a reification of their whiteness?

Julia Serano: what’s with her conception of transmisogyny? What’s wrong with it and why? What role does a misogynistic account of the transfeminine body play in her transmisogyny take-downs?

Have you done any lay-research on trans female health? What about history? Anecdata? Again, posterity.

The annexing of trans women is part of how misogyny operates. Can we flesh this out further? What missed opportunities to think about a role of trans female life are there? How have changes to transness (think how sex changed, the tipping point, or changes to pathologisation rendered by Sedgwick in how to bring your kids up gay) changed that relationship? Do you set the lowest wage that a woman may be given?

Do you have something to say? Can you say it with fewer university-words than me? What have I written above that you think is BS? What am I not asking? Do you have something you cannot explain? Will you toss it under a few different lights for me? Will you write that down and send it to me?

Upon submission, you will be paired with a thoughtful editor with interests relevant to your submission, who will work with you to develop your piece. All (copy)editors involved are trans women. Authors are paid a percentage of sales in arrears and may submit simultaneously or previously published work. Percentage-of-sales-in-arrears sucks as a payment model, but for now, this is how I’ve ensured at least some money is getting to writers at some point at least. The use of pseudonyms is encouraged: we are especially prone to having to take down work after a few years, and I’d love your writing to last longer than that.

One to five years after publication, an edition is archived online and physically. This is to give authors a sense that they are writing for trans women solely. The delay signifies that we invite others into this conversation as guests. In taking this project offline, we aim to protect our safety and encourage thoughtfulness. Anyone may submit writing and purchase copies, but this is for transgender women.

To submit or stock, write to: editor (snail symbol) badly (dot) press.

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batmanisagatewaydrug · 2 years ago

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reading update

what's up gamers, the odds are very slim that I'll be finishing another book before November is over, so let's do a roundup! I've you've been following me literally at all you probably saw me reblog my public shame TBR list at some point, and now we get the #reviews.

what have I been reading?

Histories of the Transgender Child (Jules Gill-Peterson, 2018) - this book is a really incredible piece of historical research, exploring the existence of transgender and gender non-conforming children in the first half of the 21st century. Gill-Peterson threads a great needle of both laying out ways in which trans identity and specifically trans youth were understood in the early decades of trans healthcare, establishing that young transgender people are in no way a modern phenomenon, while also making the strong case that trans youth have been able to exist without complication or medical intervention throughout American history. It's an engrossing medical history, and I would say intensely valuable to anyone who has a vested interest in protecting trans kids' right to autonomy and joy.

Batman: Bruce Wayne - Murderer? (Greg Rucka et al, 2002) - this, to me, is peak Batfamily content. everyone is miserable and nobody is communicating about it because they're all too depressed and bitchy. Bruce gets accused of murder and sent to prison and he decides the only reasonable thing to do is break out and never be Bruce Wayne again, with seemingly no concern about how horrific the consequences will be for his family as long as he gets to keep being Batman. the dysfunction is... fucking delicious. cannot WAIT to read Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, I must know how Brucie baby gets himself out of this one. also, hey, have I mentioned that I miss Babs as Oracle every single day? god, she's just... she's so much cooler as Oracle.

Alive at the End of the World (Saeed Jones, 2022) - Jones is so so so so so so SO good at writing layers of pain and hurt into his poetry. the imagery of apocalypse and protest is infinitely striking, and I was particularly shaken by the recurring series within the book that ended each segment, in which Jones finds himself in his apartment after a reading speaking with a doppelganger who turns out to be his own personified pain. chills!!!! CHILLS!!!!

Elatsoe (Darcie Little Badger, 2020) - I wanted to make a point of reading something a little lighter, because we've been a little #heavy lately, and Little Badger's debut YA novel was perfect for that. while Elatsoe isn't what I'd call flawless - in particular, I have to say that the main characters seem VERY young for 17 year olds, feeling more like middle readers protagonists in most ways - it's an extremely charming book with a lot of really cool ideas. the world is one very like ours but suffused with mythology; ghosts, vampires, and fairies are well-known facts of life integrated seamlessly into the story. it's very cool to see an urban fantasy where the protagonist's parents are totally in on the supernatural and fully supportive of the teen sleuthing without any sketchy ulterior motivations, and I think the tidbit that Lipan folks are able to banish vampires for coming into their home - the entirety of their ancestral lands - without an invitation is one of the coolest twists on vampire lore I've ever seen.

Nature Poem (Tommy Pico, 2017) - I LOVE Tommy Pico's epic poetry (that's a literary term, not an outdated compliment), and I read Nature Poem in what I believe is the way that was intended: all in one evening, still wearing a cute little bodycon dress, glitter, and fishnets after a Halloween party, a little tipsy. as always Pico's voice is impeccable, dry and witty and observant and so, so tired of so much bullshit. the preoccupation of this poem is the idea of nature, specifically writing a poem about it, and Pico's railing against the idea that white poets can write countless poems about nature and only be seen as writing a poem, while he, as a Kumeyaay man, can't write a poem about nature without it being seen as a woo woo magical Native American thing. but it's not just that; no Pico poem is every just one thing, but a smart and circling conversation to drive a point home. I still don't know if I'm liking poetry right but man I know I love Tommy Pico.

The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Michael Warner, 1999) - full disclosure: I ordered this book in a feverish haze after it was recommended at a conference by a speaker who was so stupid hot that I nearly had a panic attack about it. we don't have time to unpack all that, but I will say that this was as eye-opening a read as nearly all historical queer texts are. the two things that jumped out at me most were 1.) Warner's well-written argument against the concept of marriage as a whole, with the then-ongoing fight for gay marriage necessarily included, and 2.) the scathing critiques of gay individuals who throw ~weird sexual deviant~ gays under the bus to further their own social standing. INSANE that that's still topical in 2022; can't wait to be quoting a 20+ year old book at people when the kink @ pride discourse starts in 2023.

A Dowry of Blood (S.T. Gibson, 2021) - that's right, it's the TikTok book about Dracula's brides being in a polycule! I figured with a description like that this was either going to be pretty good or bad in fun and interesting ways, and I wasn't disappointed at all. Dowry was a fast, fun read, with a heavy gothy ambiance all the way through. it carries more weight than expected by depicting Dracula himself as a surprisingly realistic abusive partner, a boyfriend from hell who keeps his partners on short leashes with a thinly-veiled threat of death if they ever displease him. if you like your vampires depressed, horny, and wrapped up in deeply unhealthy psychosexual mindgames you will LOVE this.

Into the Riverlands (Nghi Vo, 2022) - this is the latest novella in Vo's Singing Hills Cycle, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone. I didn't initially adore this entry quite as much as When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain or Empress of Salt and Fortune, I think because it felt less immersive. the Singing Hills Cycle tells stories within stories, framed by a cleric named Chih travelling to gather stories across the fictional kingdom in which they live. the first two novellas were much more immersive in their storytelling, and I think I missed having that in Into the Riverlands, but there was a certain reveal near the end that cast the whole thing in a very different light and made me like the setup a lot more. it's also worth noting that given the way this novella deals with larger-than-life martial artists and the way their legends are distorted across time, it reminded me VERY much of The Girl Who Kept Winter - a spectacularly fun read, one that I can't recommend enough.

The World We Make (N.K. Jemisin, 2022) - god DAMN, N.K. Jemisin! I was a little unsure about The City We Became, willing to rank it as my least favorite of Jemisin's books, but the sequel really knocked by socks off. I could hardly put it down, and I'm sad to see the duology ended already - if I'm being totally honest I think this book could easily have been fleshed into two for a trilogy, given how much capital-p-Plot is introduced, but I also really respect how much story Jemisin was able to so slicky introduce and resolve in under 400 pages here. on the whole this is a thriving, fast, fist-pumping love letter to New York City and the power of community in the face of all kinds of evil, and one of the few sequels I feel completely confident calling better than the original.

#bookblr #reading updates

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askgothamshitty · 3 days ago

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im becoming so increasingly frustrated over the way TERFs behave and just blatantly disrespect queer history (i saw someone call Marsha P. Johnson “strange man” wtf and misgender her throughout their tweet) and im js wondering, whats the best way to combat main TERF talking points? (ex: the oppression of women is inherently sex-based, trans women are making a mockery out of womanhood etc.) or any books you could recommend about transmisogny? it would be very much appreciated!!

If you’re looking to argue with TERFs, don’t bother. No amount of reasoning will get to them because they are primarily motivated by hatred and prejudice.

If there’s a specific talking point you’d like me to elaborate on, then I can do that. But that should be for your own understanding; don’t expect a TERF to interact with it in good faith.

As for books on transmisogyny, check out my shelf on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/69853437?shelf=trans-feminisms&sort=date_added&order=d

#book recs

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kammartinez · 4 months ago

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#lgbtqia #books #jules gill-peterson #a short history of transmisogyny #nonfiction

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kamreadsandrecs · 4 months ago

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#lgbtqia #books #a short history of trans misogyny #jules gill-peterson

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pashterlengkap · 11 months ago

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Trailblazing transgender psychiatrist Jeanne Hoff has died

Jeanne Hoff, a trailblazing transgender psychiatrist, died at her home in San Francisco at the age of 85 this past October. Born to a working-class St. Louis family in 1938, Hoff received a master’s in science from Yale and a medical degree from Columbia University, the Advocate notes. A doctorate in solid state chemistry at University College in London and training and residency as a psychiatrist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis followed, according to Gay City News. Related: Kim Petras was not the first trans person to win a Grammy That was electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos. Hoff had already begun her own transition in 1976 when she took over the New York practice of Dr. Harry Benjamin, the German-American endocrinologist and sexologist who coined the term “transvestite” in 1910 and later began referring to patients as “transsexuals.” Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our daily newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Promotions (occasional) * Week in Good News (one on the Weekend) * Week in Review (one on the Weekend) * Daily Brief (one each weekday) * Sign Up Hoff is considered the first openly transgender psychiatrist to treat trans patients—including punk rock singer Jayne County. She was a member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, which later became the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. In 1978, she was the subject of an NBC documentary, Becoming Jeanne: A Search for Sexual Identity, which documented her own gender-confirmation surgery. In a remembrance published by Gay City News earlier this month, Andy Humm, who knew Hoff personally, wrote that she “was a very serious person — though with a great sense of humor and warmth.” Hoff, Humm wrote, was adamant that a person’s gender did not determine their sexuality and “took other psychiatrists to task when they would help a man transition to be a woman and then insist that as a woman, the patient had to form intimate relationships with men and not be ‘gay.’” “Dr Hoff knew that erotic attraction was independent of gender identity and that there are, of course, trans women who are lesbians,” Humm wrote. Humm knew Hoff through the Catholic LGBTQ+ group Dignity/New York. “Her fierce courage was unique at a time and in a Church institution that was and still can be so homophobic,” Rev. Bernárd Lynch, who also knew Hoff through the group, told Humm. “Yet she found warmth, companionship, and support from many. Jeanne inspired us by being herself — sparing no price and counting no cost in her integrity.” In her 2018 book, Histories of the Transgender Child, historian Jules Gill-Peterson wrote that “Hoff cared deeply about the well-being of her clients.” “Her work demonstrates a level of empathy entirely absent from transsexual medicine since its advent—not to mention its predecessors in the early twentieth century—an ethic of care that, although greatly constrained by the material circumstances and history of psychiatry and endocrinology, was also entangled with her situated perspective as a trans woman,” Peterson wrote. “It is important to underline that Hoff represents yet another trans person who took an active and complicated role in medicine, rather than being its object.” During one poignant moment in Becoming Jeanne, Hoff was asked by Dr. Frank Field, who cohosted the film with Lynn Redgrave, how she wanted people to accept her. “Well, it may not be necessary for you to go to a lot of trouble to learn about accepting transsexuals if you have a general principle, and that is: mind your own business, I suppose,” she responded. “If you are meddling in the life and freedom of someone else, you ought to do so very cautiously and make sure that you’re entitled to do so and that they’ll be better off for your having been there.” “So if you take the position that people are all… http://dlvr.it/T0Z0GP

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burlveneer-music · 4 years ago

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VA - Inner City Review - Gilles Peterson’s reissue of multi-instrumentalist George Semper’s 1973 private-press soul/R&B LP

“Inner City Review” by George Semper is the latest release to land on Gilles Peterson’s Arc label, the first full re-issue of the songwriter and musician’s ultra rare 1973 compilation. A songwriter and studio musician behind troves of soul, rock and R&B records from the late ‘50s onwards, it shines a fresh light on Semper’s influential behind-the-scenes role. He was the creative force behind Hammond organ classic “Makin’ Waves”, the cult 1977 Bay Area funk record “The Perfect Circle”, and a collaborator with the likes of Donny Hathaway, Jimmy Smith and Brenton Wood. It’s the second release on the “reissues and oddities” imprint launched earlier this year by Peterson. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, acclaimed for his innovative funky organ sound, Semper’s Hammond-playing style was an influence on The Doors and The Rolling Stones. His career saw him cross paths with the likes of Charles Stepney, and – as the co-owner of several influential San Diego venues – present Frank Zappa’s first professional show, booking him to open for Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix. An independently-produced and recorded album, in keeping with Semper’s many other small-run private pressed records, Semper used his day-job as a musician to get precious studio time, bagging time in the A&M Hollywood lot for the album’s recording sessions. (At the time, he was playing with Merry Clayton, a singer who – after her solo career declined – became a backing singer and would go on to feature in the 2013 film 20 Feet From Stardom.) An all-killer, rarely heard collection of music, and a document of an important moment in Semper’s career, as he laid the foundations for the independent-minded Inner City Records label, (not to be confused with Irv Kratka’s New York based, Inner City Records), as well as the game-changing Bay Area funk sound that has made “The Perfect Circle” a sought after cult classic. Musicians: David II Majall (Tenor sax); Basey Green (Bass percussion); Orlando “Bad News” White (Drums percussion, vocal background); Tony “Touchdown” Drake (Lead guitar); Virgil Johnson (Trombone, bass); Gary Cardile (Percussion and Special effects); George Walker (Rhythm guitar); Robert “Sweets” Fortson (Background vocals); Jack and James of Native Sun (Trumpet and alto sax respectively); George Semper (Keyboards, alto sax, conductor, tympani, chimes, bell tree, and vocals)

#Inner City Review #soul #r&b #jazz #70s #reissue #gilles peterson #arc records #2020

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leguin · 3 years ago

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by request, some of the most interesting articles/reviews/obituaries of 2021:

“all work and no play” by sam adler bell | dissent magazine

“honoring a water warrior: how harry williams fought for paiute water rights in owens valley” by jeanine pfeiffer | kcet

“shitty men du jour: france’s literary #metoo” by madison mainwaring | the baffler

“where does it end?” by samuel stein | the baffler

“‘the water is coming’: florida keys faces stark reality as the seas rise” by oliver milman | the guardian

review of kevin richard martin’s return to solaris by jared dix | the quietus

“understanding the horror of slavery is impossible. but a simple cotton sack can bring us closer.” by rebecca onion | slate

“kip kinkel is ready to speak” by jessica schulberg | huffington post

“the anti-trans lobby’s real agenda” by jules-gill peterson

“did james plymell need to die?” by leah sottile | high country news

“big and slow” by elisa gabbert | real life

“a world where george floyd and ma’khia bryant would still be here is a world without police” by mariame kaba and andrea j. ritchie | newsone

“between a rock and a god place: rural oregon’s war on the homeless” by theo witcomb | the baffler

“lost and unfounded: will kafka’s work survive the distorted representations made in his name?” by judith butler | jewish currents

“celebrate the good news of the crab“ by daniel lavery | the chatner

“’i’m taking back what’s mine‘: the many lives of thandiwe newton” by diana evans | vogue

“i have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world - and i hate it” by britt h. young | input mag

“‘their spirits were trapped in those masks’“ by avi steinberg | topic

“gay stories for straight allies” by huw lemmy | utopian drivel

“the memory war” by katie heaney | the cut

“built trades” by andrew yamakawa elrod | phenomenal world

“the internet is rotting” by jonathan zittrain | the atlantic

“do no harm: the complex ethics of portraying suicide” by jess mcallen | the baffler

“how the personal computer broke the human body” by laine nooney | vice

“community service: inside the native tribe transforming justice” by abacki beck | bitchmedia

“when ‘foundation’ gets the blockbuster treatment, isaac asimov’s vision gets lost” by julian lucas | the new yorker

“gary bettman & the nhl are who we thought they were” by sean gentille | the athletic

“iohan gueorguiev, ‘bike wanderer’ of the wilderness, dies at 33″ by alex traub | the new york times

“the dying art of the blockbuster film trailer” by merryana salem | kill your darlings

“vanishing: a bond across centuries” by daniel hudon | the revelator

“loving lies” by bill adair | airmail

#long post

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intersectional-sapphic-feminist · 4 years ago

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Hey, FARTs (Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes)... fuck your unscientific, transphobic, hate-filled, bigotry. This blog supports trans and non-binary folks.

If you subject me to harassment and abuse for standing up for trans and non-binary folks, then surely it is reasonable to expect me to defend myself. This is my right, and I will exercise it accordingly.

If you reblog me and I notice it, you will be unceremoniously blocked.

Read science about trans people before you start spouting hate-filled nonsense.

Some useful reading/info:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XMRlqaY6eVU&feature=share

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MitqjSYtwrQ&feature=share

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opinion/transgender-children.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/01/trans-children-history-jules-gill-peterson-interview?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-ema8TtH1k&feature=share

https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-people-bathrooms-and-sexual-predators-what-the-data-say-2f31ae2a7c06

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01237-z

https://news.usc.edu/158899/transgender-research-usc-brain-gender-identity/

https://www.them.us/story/study-trans-cisgender-children-gender-identities.us

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

https://juliaserano.medium.com/debunking-trans-women-are-not-women-arguments-85fd5ab0e19c

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/25/archaeology-human-remains-gender-black-trowel-collective/

https://injuries-in-dust.tumblr.com/post/666452081576755200

https://bobbie-and-her-girl.tumblr.com/post/665443364142972928

https://diamondsableye.tumblr.com/post/642154134369386496/every-single-time-i-see-a-terf-or-gcer-tell-a

https://trans-express.lgbt/post/643276738695168000/what-scientists-really-say-about-biological-sex

https://juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-amab-trans-people-denied-the-closet-7fd5c740ce30

https://www.facebook.com/100064895042052/posts/359557772884055/?sfnsn=scwspmo

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/08/trans-youth-social-transition-project-princeton-university-pediatrics/

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/18/john-oliver-debunks-anti-trans-arguments/

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2022/06/10999784/trans-women-public-spaces?utm_source=Syndication&utm_medium=PinkNews For FARTs (Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes) against trans women in "women's space"

Rebuttal to Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage (transphobic book):

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/abigail-shriers-irreversible-damage-a-wealth-of-irreversible-misinformation/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-trans-community-a-critical-review-of-abigail-shriers-book-irreversible-damage-part-one/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-transgender-treatment/

P.S. If the existence of trans or non-binary folks, or the existence of this page, annoys you, then you need to analyse yourself. Read. Educate yourself.

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realmotionxi-blog · 6 years ago

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Virgil Abloh Says His “Jaw Dropped” Listening To Kanye West’s New Album: “It’s Intense” Ye's new album is already a fan favorite. Kanye West has been teasing his Yandhi album for months now.

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baeddel · 4 years ago

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fish-feel-pain-180967764/

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Ah, someone already linked what I was gonna say about fish and pain, I think.

woaaaah omg thankyou for pointing this out to me!! from the article:

At the anatomical level, fish have neurons known as nociceptors, which detect potential harm, such as high temperatures, intense pressure, and caustic chemicals. Fish produce the same opioids—the body’s innate painkillers—that mammals do. And their brain activity during injury is analogous to that in terrestrial vertebrates: sticking a pin into goldfish or rainbow trout, just behind their gills, stimulates nociceptors and a cascade of electrical activity that surges toward brain regions essential for conscious sensory perceptions (such as the cerebellum, tectum, and telencephalon), not just the hindbrain and brainstem, which are responsible for reflexes and impulses.

Fish also behave in ways that indicate they consciously experience pain. In one study, researchers dropped clusters of brightly colored Lego blocks into tanks containing rainbow trout. Trout typically avoid an unfamiliar object suddenly introduced to their environment in case it’s dangerous. But when scientists gave the rainbow trout a painful injection of acetic acid, they were much less likely to exhibit these defensive behaviors, presumably because they were distracted by their own suffering. In contrast, fish injected with both acid and morphine maintained their usual caution. Like all analgesics, morphine dulls the experience of pain, but does nothing to remove the source of pain itself, suggesting that the fish’s behavior reflected their mental state, not mere physiology. If the fish were reflexively responding to the presence of caustic acid, as opposed to consciously experiencing pain, then the morphine should not have made a difference.

In another study, rainbow trout that received injections of acetic acid in their lips began to breathe more quickly, rocked back and forth on the bottom of the tank, rubbed their lips against the gravel and the side of the tank, and took more than twice as long to resume feeding as fish injected with benign saline.

awful experiments to do but in the conext of Big Fishing lobbying to keep fish out of animal welfare laws it seems justified ><

So is ths an argument for a ‘functionalist’ explanation of mind, ie. that you can be in pain whether or not you have the insula, so there are ‘multiply realizable mental states’? Looking it up this seems to be the dominant position, actually... You can bame Jack Lyons - a philosopher of mind who has a stage demeanour about halfway between Jordan Peterson and Jerry Seinfeld - for my misconception here, although reviewing it he actually seems to be arguing against the notion that fish don’t feel pain (whereas I thought he was pointing to fish as an example of a case where pain is not multiply realized)

Anyway, is there a better example of a living thing with a form of cognition that demonstrably differs from ours, without going all the way to sponges & plants (where their cognition is very hard to conceptualize)? [After reading more recently the literature seems to suggest that plants are cognitive & that they make decisions, which would seem to put to bed my fears that my arguments about cognition were too permissive.]

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the arguments that fish don't feel pain are pretty weak imo. i think this is less an issue of other minds experiencing the world in a radically different way and more just that some people find it inconvenient to acknowledge the similarities that are there.

yeah, right, definitely. I usually tend to think that ‘worrying about anthromorphism is the opposite of helping’ (& obviously as I just found out most of the argument about fish not feeling pain comes from Fishing lobbies & isnt sound), but I do also feel like there are interesting cases of cognition which are radically different, like the sponge etc., & its worth trying to talk about that too (just, perhaps, an issue of timing, when that argument is so often used to justify abuses)

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S. H. I. E. L. D. Sunday: AoS Season One Episodes 9-14 Reviews

Annnd we’re back once again at the start of a new week and it’s S. H. I. E. L. D. Sunday! WHOOP WHOOP! Today we’re reviewing the next four episodes of AoS, nine through twelve. When we last left our daring agents, they had just had a crazy run-in with some pagans and an Asgardian. But the very next morning, in a small town in Utah, a woman named Hannah Hutchins starts Magneto-ing as a result of harassment by the locals. See, she was the supervisor of the local particle accelerator, and the town blames her for an accident there which killed four men.

The team flies in from Dublin to perform the Index intake and assessment on Hannah (the Index is S. H. I. E. L. D.’s list of powered people), or, as Skye prefers to call it, the welcome wagon. Their efforts are interrupted by the still ticked-off locals, and the situation is only made worse when Hannah’s supposed telekinetic powers send a police car driving into the mob. To put an end to the tension, May tranquilizes Hannah and the team takes her on to the Bus.

The team is puzzled by the situation, since Hannah really seems like just the nicest person who would never use her uncontrollable abilities to hurt people. Skye is incessantly annoyed with May for pretty much the whole episode because of her lack of people skills, arguing that her methods just scare Hannah more and make the situation worse. Phil finally opens up about why May is called the Cavalry, revealing that years ago in Bahrain, they were trying to be the welcome wagon to a powered individual but it went horribly wrong. A bunch of agents and a little girl were taken hostage. May went in and neutralized the threat, but the girl died, and May was never the same.

Meanwhile, weird things are happening on the Bus, and the team eventually finds out that Hannah actually isn’t telekinetic. It turns out that one of the men thought to have died in the accident, Tobias Ford, isn’t dead; he’s just trapped between dimensions. He had a crush on Hannah and so he would purposely mess things up so that she would came to investigate and he could see her. One time he messed things up too badly, which led to the whole thing exploding, three of his co-workers dying, and him being trapped between dimensions.

All of those accidents that were happening were actually just him trying to protect Hannah from being harassed by the other people. He causes the Bus to lose power and they crash in a field, but May drags Hannah off the plane to lure Tobias away. They meet in a barn and May persuades him to let her go. He agrees and dissipates into nothingness. I actually don’t know if he’s dead…? He could be just trapped in that other dimension forever… which would be kind of sad…

I like this episode all right, it’s kind of another average one, but we start to learn a little bit more about May, which is cool. It also gets a little philosophical with Skye’s conversation with Hannah about God and His mercy. They actually get it kind of right, surprisingly? I don’t appreciate perpetuating the stereotype of evil nuns that run orphanages, but when Skye brings up how God is love and that He does forgive… that’s right. “That’s the version I like,” she says. That’s the only version!! Oh well, it’s still nice to see them get some of the truth.

Yeah, other than that everything’s pretty normal, the subplot with FitzSimmons trying to prank Skye and pretty much failing is funny, and… yeah. It’s good.

Next up is The Bridge, and in it we see the return of ya boi Mike Peterson from the first episode. Not surprisingly, this episode is connected to the Centipede program. This weird dude named Edison Po who cannot go ONE FREAKIN’ SECOND without shoving food in his face was broken out of prison by a bunch of soldiers juiced up the the Centipede serum. He’s a former Marine and acts as their organizer with Raina, so… that’s--that’s why they broke him out of prison. Anyway, the team eventually tracks down one of their facilities, a warehouse in California, but they’re too late. Po and Raina already split, but a few soldiers stayed behind to thwack anybody who showed up. Ward, May, and Mike manage to fight them off, and they discover that the soldiers have exploding camera eyes just like Akela Amador did.

Suddenly, Raina kidnaps Mike’s son Ace, and she meets with the team on a bridge to negotiate an exchange, hence the name. Everyone assumes that she wants Mike in exchange for Ace, but no no no, she actually wants Phil. *gasp* Of course, since Phil is a nice guy and he doesn’t want an innocent little boy to get hurt, he gives himself up.

Mike gives Ace to Skye and then immediately runs to rescue Coulson, but the bridge suddenly explodes, and Mike is caught right in it. Po and Raina escape with Coulson in a helicopter, informing him that they reason they captured him is because they want to know how he came back to life.

This is, like, the third episode that I feel like I forget about. I don’t really know why, since it’s, like, really important? Mike comes back and Coulson gets kidnapped, which leads directly into the next episode, and yeah. It’s another one that’s kind of average, but still not bad. I don’t think we’ve had a bad episode yet. It moves really quickly and it keeps you interested for the time you’re watching it, not to mention that crazy shocker-cliffhanger ending. Oh, and also Ace is adorable, so it’s all worth it.

The next episode is The Magical Place, and as you might guess from the title, in this episode we learn some more about the T. A. H. I. T. I. project. Since Coulson was kidnapped last episode, Victoria Hand is leading a task force to find him and hopefully destroy Centipede for good. Skye tries to hack into S. H. I. E. L. D.’s database to find information, but Hand is none too pleased about this and she kicks her off the Bus. Thinking on her feet, Skye employs an elaborate plan to pose as an agent and blackmail a corrupt businessman into helping her, since she can’t use any computers without them locking down. She traces Raina’s purchases and discovers where they’re keeping Coulson, then regroups with the rest of the team to go find him while Hand and all her agents go in the entirely wrong direction.

While all of this is going on, Phil is being held hostage in an abandoned town. Po interrogates him to try and uncover the secrets of his resurrection, since the Clairvoyant is veeeeerry interested in that. For all his vaunted “clairvoyance” he can’t see what happened, so Po uses a mind probe to try and see into Phil’s brain. His methods ultimately fail and the Clairvoyant kills him remotely with that same paralyzing technology from Iron Man.

Raina then takes over and uses her wicked manipulation skills to get Phil to willingly go into the machine. It awakens a bunch of traumatic memories and he starts screaming, “Please let me die!”

Right at this moment the whole gang shows up to rescue Phil and they arrest Raina. In gratitude for what she did to save him, Phil removes Skye’s bracelet, and he declares that their new mission is the track down the Clairvoyant. He also goes to see one of the doctors who worked on him, and discovers that he was dead for days before they figured out how to revive him. Since the experience was so painful, they replaced his memories with a beautiful island.

In the end tag, we see that *gasp* Mike is alive! But OH NO he’s missing half his leg and he has one of the eye cameras implanted in his head! AAAAAHHH

But seriously though, my heart just sank when I saw that for the first time. Poor Mike. He didn’t deserve what he got.

Overall I like this episode pretty well. I think the highlights are the time spent with Phil and Raina and it’s really cool getting to learn about the secrets of T. A. H. I. T. I. and all that. The other parts of the episode with Skye doing her thing is fine, but I don’t think it’s really the part of the episode that matters. It winds up being kind of forgettable in the end.

Episode Twelve is called Seeds, and it starts off with a couple cadets of the S. H. I. E. L. D. academy going swimming at night. Suddenly, the entire pool starts to freeze, and it looks like one of the kids, Seth Dormer, is going to be trapped, but he’s rescued at the last second by Donnie Gill. (who, for the record, was not originally with the swimming party. He was sitting in the corner like a loser.) Fearing that this may have been a murder attempt, Principle Anne Weaver contacts Fitz and Simmons to consult in the investigation, and Skye and Ward come along because… because of course they do.

Meanwhile, Coulson and May head off to Mexico to find former agent Richard Lumley, who may have information about Skye’s history. He reveals that he and several other agents were sent to China to retrieve an 0-8-4, which turned out to be the infant Skye. Her entire village had died protecting her from some kind of monster, and several of the agents were killed as well. She was finally hid inside the foster system to protect her, with protocol ensuring that she be moved around from house to house frequently.

Back at the Academy, FitzSimmons give a talk to try to encourage everyone to remain calm, but just as they’re doing so, Donnie is suddenly frozen in the same way the pool was. But, of course, Fitz and Jemma are there to save him, and so they do. Fitz tries to befriend Donnie to try and find out if anyone would target him, while the others go to collect intel from the other students.

Fitz, trying to be friendly, gives Donnie advice on his inventions, but then Ward discovers from one of the cadets that Donnie and Seth actually staged the freezing events to lure FitzSimmons there so that they could help them perfect their freezing device. Of course, he discovers this information too late to help Fitz (good job Ward) and the two boys, with parts supplied to them by Ian Quinn, successfully make a giant weather machine.

Quinn wants a demonstration before he seals the deal, and so they turn the machine on, causing a crazy superstorm to start around the machine. But since Quinn is a scumbag, he leaves the two gullible kids to deal with the problem themselves.

They fail in that regard, and lightning strikes the device, electrocuting both of them. Seth dies of cardiac arrest, but Donnie gets cryokinetic powers. He is incarcerated at the S. H. I. E. L. D. facility called The Sandbox and Coulson tells Skye what he learned about her past. She is understandably upset at first, but she finally says that she is comforted by the fact that S. H. I. E. L. D. has been protecting her her whole life.

In the little end tag thingy Phil calls Quinn to make threats, but Quinn is a smooth scumbag, and so he smugly replies, “The Clairvoyant says hello.” *gasp* What? It’s all connected? Woooowww

I feel like I always forget about this episode, but I’m not sure why, since it’s pretty good. It’s kind of different from anything else in the season and I like it. We learn a good chunk about Skye’s past, which is always nice, and Donnie Gill is a cool character. (pun 100% intended) There isn’t much to say and it isn’t spectacular, but it’s a solid episode.

All right, now it’s catch-up time for last week. Behold, the next four episodes!

Kicking things off with the thirteenth episode, T. R. A. C. K. S., which I have to preface by saying, this is my favorite episode of Season One. Why? Well read on…

Everyone’s favorite dirtbag Ian Quinn has made a purchase from a company called Cybertek Industries, and a secret team of mercenaries has been hired to escort it through the Italian countryside. Guessing that the package is important, and wanting to apprehend Quinn after discovering that he’s allied with the Clairvoyant, Phil and the gang go undercover as normal passengers on the train transporting the package.

May goes in pursuit of the package, but the comms suddenly short out and Phil and Ward get kicked off the train and stunned by a dendrotoxin grenade. (dendrotoxin is what’s in the night-night guns. So… it’s makes you go to sleep.) May abandons the train to continue hunting down the package, but she is captured by the local police chief, who has been accepting bribes from Cybertek to make sure their shipments go through safely.

Back on the train, chaos happens and Jemma gets stunned by one of the same grenades that got Ward and Phil. Skye and Fitz stash her in a luggage carrier and get off the train, following the mercenaries to Quinn’s mansion. In the meantime, May escapes from the dirty police chief and kills him, regrouping with Ward and Phil, who recovered from their temporary stunned… ness. They get back on the train and find Simmons, who has also recovered.

Skye and Fitz have arrived at Quinn’s mansion, and Skye goes in alone, looking for the package in the basement. She instead finds Mike Peterson, and he has… uh, he’s looked better, you know what I’m saying? Quinn then shows up and reveals that the package is a bionic leg, which he attaches to Mike. He receives orders from the Clairvoyant and leaves, but Quinn, THE FILTHY LITTLE SCUM THAT HE IS, shoots Skye. In the stomach. Twice.

Coulson and the team arrive just in time, arresting Quinn and rushing Skye to the nearest S. H. I. E. L. D. medical facility. In the end tag, we learn that Mike’s leg was developed by Cybertek as part of Project Deathlok. And then all the comics fans lost their minds.

I seriously love this episode. I love whenever the team does more traditional spy stuff, like going undercover, and all of their fake roles are a treat to watch. It has an unconventional structure but I really like it, because I think it helps build the tension very effectively. We also get hilarious scenes like Fitz and Skye pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend and Ward utterly failing at using the holotable on the Bus, which may be the best part of the episode.

Of course, all of the comedy dies (quite literally) at the end, where the tension is crazy. It’s legitimately shocking when Quinn shoots Skye, and I remember how it just hurt my soul to watch it happen. It was all so well done, in my opinion, and I just… it’s great.

So yeah, obviously I have nothing but praise for this one, and it’s one of my all-time favorites.

In the next episode, T. A. H. I. T. I., the team is rushing Skye to the hospital. The doctor soon tells them that there’s nothing they can do, and it looks like all hope is lost--

Well, no, not all hope is lost, and Phil is determined to save her. He decides that if doctors brought him back from the dead, then they must be able to save Skye. As they’re flying to find one of these doctors, Phil discloses the nature of his resurrection to Fitz and Simmons, stating that whatever was used to heal his fatal wounds can be used to save their fellow teammate.

They’ve also got resident slimeball Ian Quinn aboard, and S. H. I. E. L. D. orders that Coulson deposit him at a facility, but Phil doesn’t want to waste time on silly things like orders, and so he keeps Quinn in custody. Since he, y’know, disobeyed a direct order, they are quickly boarded by agents John Garrett and Antoine Triplett, also known as Trip. They’ve been hunting Quinn for a while, but since Phil and Garrett are old pals, they agree to let Quinn stay on the Bus until they save Skye.

Garrett interrogates Quinn, who reveals that the Clairvoyant ordered him to shoot Skye, the goal being that Phil would be forced to find out how he was brought back from the dead. The Clairvoyant is obsessed with finding that out, although it’s curiously the one piece of information he doesn’t already know.

It turns out that their original destination was a dead end, but FitzSimmons dig through some files and discover an old World War II bunker called the Guest House, which appears to be connected to Phil’s resurrection. They fly there instead, but they don’t know the countersign to get in. Phil still doesn’t give a flip about anything and busts in anyway with Garrett, Ward, and Fitz, killing the guards. That’s morally questionable, but it backfired anyway because there’s a failsafe installed which is going to blow up the whole base.

Phil and Fitz find the drug that healed Phil’s fatal wounds, GH-325, and Fitz rushes it back the bus. Phil, however, decides he wants to wander around for a little while, and he just barely makes it out in time with Ward and Garrett. As they get back on the bus, Phil suddenly screams at Jemma to not give the drug to Skye, but it’s too late--she’s already injected into her.

Everything works out fine anyway, and Skye stabilizes and shows signs of recovery. May asks why Phil was being a freakin’ weirdo and shouting not to administer the life-saving drug, and he claims that he just didn’t want Skye to suffer like he did. That is a LIE, however, because the real reason is that while he was wandering around in the Guest House, he discovered the source of the drug: the corpse of a blue alien. (which is a Kree, by the way, but he doesn’t know that.)

In the end tag, a mysterious woman named Lorelai shows up and convinces a man to abandon his wife for her. Exciting.

Yeah, there’s a LOT going on in this episode, and it all goes pretty well. It’s pretty intense, and it continues to reveal more about the oh-so-mysterious T. A. H. I. T. I. project. I’d probably rank it higher than some of the earlier episodes of this season, but it’s not one of my personal favorites. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just doesn’t come to mind first when I think of stand-out episodes of Season One.

I didn’t review all of the episodes I was supposed to, but I’m tired and nobody’s reading this so why does it matter. I will get fully caught up next week. Good night.

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