#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

[nonbinarynow]

Do you ever notice how the majority of nonbinary characters are just straight up not human beings? The majority of our non-binary rep is inhuman, which shows how binary society still views us as a literal societal impossibility despite us being here, real people, on earth with them.

I feel like this feeds into the whole thing of enben being seen as like "eldritch horrors" or "other worldly." Even though it might be claimed to be only in jest, it still displays how we are implicitly seen as a human impossibility because of the pervasiveness of the gender binary in society. It's taught to us as "natural" and how "humans have always functioned" despite our modern bourgeois, patriarchal, white-supremacist gender binary originating as a tool of colonialism. That was very recent in anthropological history. (Also note how capitalism is intertwined with binary supremacy here.)

When you delve into this it's wild. It starts surface level but it reveals the core exorsexism and classism of the capitalist society for one, but how it permeates into jokes ("I can identify as an attack helicopter!" "Nonbinary people are little frogs/eldritch beings!"), representation (most nonbinary representation is of inhuman characters) and our legal status (inexistent, which means no civil rights or legal protection of any kind.)

[lunaescribe]

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

[vonclosen]

while watching white binary trans people tear each other apart over video game characters: happy pride month

[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.

[lethroe-radicalised]

So the world health organisation recognises that gender is on a spectrum and so is gender.

Healthdirect from the AU recognises 30 different forms of intersex.

Gametes are not the only indicators of sex. There are secondary sex characters such as hormones. The issue is that people refuse to let go of the idea that gametes are definitive proof of sex which has been used to back the white colonial idea that male and female are the only sexes. Most of this is due to cultural influence on how science is perceived as well as an issue of ignoring other ideas and information in the pursuit of proving a prerecognised concept and information bias. I believe it also ties into scientific racism as black women challenged white concepts of femininity and female presentation. Intersex is not a new idea, it is simply that intersex babies were killed, abandoned, or hidden and even mutilated to give the illusion of "normality".

Thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[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.

[omgstoppit]

[lichtecht]

i do think aromantics get to hate love actually. i do think we get to have anger and spite and i do think we are justified to express it!!

[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.

[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

[nando161mando]

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

[saberdramon]

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

[aromerrowace]

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

[pear-fumerie]

heteronormativity is a mediocre colonial concept

Bologna, Italy