#colonial gender binary

[indigenous-gender]

If you were wondering why many lesbians of color are fighting back against identity policing and rightfully calling it out as white supremacy, it is because this rhetoric is dangerous, harmful, and antithetical to our liberation. Invalidating lesbian manhood is rooted in antiBlackness and antiIndigeneity. Excluding lesbians of color for our race and culture is colonization in action. Excluding trans lesbians of color for our cultural gender and sexuality and for being trans in a way that subverts colonial gender systems is racist and transphobic. here is a fantastic article that talks about African gender and sexuality and highlights the existence of male lesbians or lesbian men. As an Indigenous person of triracial descent, I am proud of my Indigenous cultural gender and sexuality, and I will not allow white supremacists and queer assimilationists to erasure the history and cultures of my ancestors. Male lesbians and lesbian men are STILL HERE. We are proudly Black, Brown, and Indigenous! This is our tradition!

https://africasacountry.com/2014/03/africa-has-always-been-more-queer-than-generally-acknowledged

[lunaescribe]

The anti-colonial power of Jim! What a gift to have a non-binary Latine rebel.

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

so sick of north america and europe’s superiority complex over being “so queer friendly 🩷💕💞💓💗🌸🌺🌷🪷!”

latin america, north america, south and east asia, and africa all had non european ideas of gender and sexuality. my good friend colonization force fed homophobia and the gender binary down their throats. and now they wonder why gay marriage is illegal in these countries? it’s because of you girlie, you are the problem.

[jesncin]

Idk queer kryptonian have always intrigued me, never being mentioned in canon, but they should do something about them in canon with Jon being out and all... I can easily imagine Crush (Xiomara Rojas, lesbain daughter of Lobo) asking Kara about Krypton's gay scene sgsjksks

I don't know about canon, but we can certainly have fun takes in AUs about it haha. I know it's because Krypton as a concept is made by us, human beings with very rigid gender norms via the western gender binary and what not, so Krypton generally tends to be imagined in a very "like us, but futuristic" way- but I think it's much more fun to imagine an alien species with a whole different set of rules over how gender and sexuality function in society. An entirely different framework alien (hah) to us. Like think less gay couples or a gender neutral bathroom and more a society that never considered a binary to begin with. What would that world look like, and how would characters like Jon or even Conner react learning about this?

Canon will probably never do this because this would imply a nuanced understanding of the intersection between culture and queer identity and well! Haha.

[pumpacti0n]

"The performative roles that are enforced onto us reproduce harmful social relations, instilling onto us a preset of prejudiciary behaviors and ideals about what a man and woman is and how they're "supposed to be" in a "good society".

Instead of seeing personhood first, we are instilled with a gendered framework of treating the other person as the prescribed characteristic of what femininity and masculinity is supposed to be, and whether they perform to this prescription or not.

However, humanity itself is more complex than this reductive vision of putting some in to "Block A" or "Block B". Instead, a spectrum of interconnected complexity and performances that cannot be neatly contained into pink and blue boxes.

Hell, even sex itself is bimodal, which explains the existence of intersex people. A post-gender society can only exist when the institutions and systemic consequences of patriarchy have long died.

In the meantime, we can only work towards advancing and progressing notions about gender, and working to dismantle the hierarchies that the binary puts onto us, perhaps reaching a point where we no longer need the gender categorization to meaningfully ourselves in our own unique way."

"Anarcho-Transhumanism" - Post-Comprehension

[dullahandyke]

I have a feeling my lecturer isnt gonna think my essay idea is relevant so some time tomorrow I'm setting myself up with speech to text and rambling to yis abt aye and gomorrah and its colonial gender identities

[taffi-louis]

[luaminesce]

The older I get, the more I believe that TERF/radfem ideology is basically just repackaged European/US Christofacist imperialism in a secular hat.

[nickysfacts]

The Public Universal Friend, a preachers that was both true to their word and their name!✝️

⛪️🏳️‍🌈

[kaikree]

i turned 30 yesterday and i need the ability to telepathically tell ppl who comment on my comic about the trans characters that the bad faith questions are not as subtle as they think

[indigenous-gender]

I saw someone say that they would feel betrayed if they found out someone they were talking to who had identified as transfem was actually afab. To that I say, it’s none of your business how anyone identifies or what their reasons are, and if you would feel betrayed by a queer person identifying with a term and community, that’s something you need to rethink and reflect on. I am tired of colonial terminology being forced on Black/Brown/Indigenous people, especially when these terms are being misused. AFAB/AMAB terminology originates from intersex communities. I am not AFAB or AMAB. I was not assigned a gender. I understand that society perceives me as a specific gender most of the time, but their perception has zero to do with how I identify. I identify as transfem because I am coming from a place rooted in indigenous masculinity, and transgressing and transforming into womanhood. I do not have to explain or justify the way that I identify. It’s just another painful reminder that white gender will always be centered, and Black/Brown/Indigenous gender will always be excluded. I understand why you would feel that way, but your feelings are not my problem. Identity policing is rooted in white supremacy.

[kabbalicgay]

Motherfuckers got embarrassed when they were being called ''SJWs'' in their teens or early adulthood that you all stopped reading any sort of theory or political work that encourages us to stop and think about what mechanisms and structures are a part of society that influence the way we see ourselves and the people around us - which includes patriarchal and euro-centric standards of beauty and appearance - so now you're too busy arguing over if a child wanting to make her "big nose" less big is progressive and #feminist or not.

[nando161mando]

"Research shows 150 Indigenous communities acknowledge multiple genders; colonialism introduced idea of binary"

[moodr1ng]

basically im gonna start just putting 'dni if you define gender categories as men and non-men' and move on lol. like just be open and proud that you do not respect multigender people and, more importantly, people whose genders sit outside of the western colonial gender binary entirely, and stop pretending. like just decide whether im a man or a woman to you personally and sit on one side of the fence. if you are unwilling to conceptualize gender without a binary in there - even a reinvented binary that makes just enough space for you but not me lol - then fit me in the binary. im serious. if you think "everyone is either a man, or a not-man" is anything but a reinvention of "everyone is either a man or a woman" but awkwardly shifted to try and add nonbinary people to one side, then put that framework into use and misgender me. i am actively asking you to. you do not get to handwave me away as just an exception to your good new gender binary, or to try and say i fit into both groups when you are literally defining them by being mutually exclusive.

decide if im a man or a woman to you, treat me accordingly. ONLY treat me as one or the other, and do not switch it up when its convenient for you. just misgender me. i think its kinder.

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

maybe i'm betraying the lgbt community but I actually do like the concept of aliens or other inhuman beings being technically non-binary because they don't get the concept of sex and gender in the same way humans do. like I get that having actual human non-binary rep is important but exploring gender, how it could be viewed in other cultures and worlds, and pushing boundaries sounds far more interesting. Even if the alien does eventually decide that the human concept of gender does fit them, it would be interesting to think about.

[vizthedatum]

Assigned before birth

My mom used to tell me that when I was in her womb, everyone (including her) thought she was going to have a boy.

When she would narrate that, I'd feel a pang of joy... but didn't (or refused to?) know why at the time.