#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.

[taffi-louis]

[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

[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.

[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.

[nando161mando]

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

[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.

[saberdramon]

pulling the gender cd-rom out of my disk drive and ramming it into majima's head. again.

[dangerous-fighter-fairy]

Thinking about gender as I tend to do and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s absolutely insane that we consider gender in one culture to be the same gender in another culture. Like the main similarities are sex linked traits and that’s it for some of them. Like if you remove the body and child-having aspects of it, some of these are functionally different genders. They are not comparable

Idk we read Yentl the Yeshiva Boy in my context class (short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer about this afab person who poses as a guy so they can study the Talmud, and I call them afab because it’s hard to say what they identify as due to all the different ways they explain themself) and we talked about how masculinity in their pocket of Jewish culture is considered feminine my modern American standards. Similar with masculinity in Korea, you’ll see these pop stars wearing makeup and projecting softness and being fashionable and stuff and those are guys, dudes, bros, men, but Americans consider them feminine because for us, they’re doing Woman Things

Like. There are similarities between these masculinities and American masculinities but there are some big differences too. Remove biological sex from the equation and you’ve basically got a Very Different Thing from modern American masculinity in both of these cases. But we say they’re both men because they’re both male bodied so obviously it’s the same thing repackaged right?

I’m sure there are better examples out there, this is just the one that got me thinking

[average-emo-enigma]

Damn this flag is pretty

[pear-fumerie]

heteronormativity is a mediocre colonial concept

Bologna, Italy

[transmutationisms]

as far as i can tell that claim about [usamerican] women not being allowed to hold bank accounts prior to the 60s is just incorrect and based on a misunderstanding of what antidiscrimination laws in the 70s were meant to accomplish. which is something i think is actually worth splitting hairs over because 1) wealthy socially powerful white women did hold property, get loans, get credit, collect rents, &c in the colonial period as well as the 200 years following the revolution, & obfuscating that means failing to understand how class, race, & gender actually related to & informed one another, and 2) the narrative forming around de jure rights and an extremely binary black and white notion of discrimination also obscures the ways discrimination against women in the financial sphere actually happened (often piecemeal, locally, varying by institution, with things like subjective biased evaluations of their financial prospects from banks, as well as the role of massive social norms and pressures that cumulatively steered them away from independent possession of capital in the first place) -- which matters because so many of these things still do happen, even to white women but very specifically and heavily to black americans in particular, and this is also lost when we act like ECOA or whatever ended credit discrimination in one fell swoop. also people who make this claim tend to have a very poor understanding of what effect marriage had on a woman's financial status, because again they have an extremely basic understanding of how the category "women" was handled by financial institutions and seem to see it as one monolith when in reality marriage was more of like, another factor that informed (lessened) the degree to which financial institutions considered a woman to be an independent legal person