#identitiy politics

[sirensea14]

I hope that Bamban mayor Alice Guo gets arrested soon. Her fingerprints and the alleged Guo Huaping who has the same appearance as the mayor matched. There's also a possible identitiy theft as there was another 'Alice Leal Guo' found with the same damn name, and the same damn birth date, but the face doesnt match. I, along with other tiktok (and possibly reddit users out there, idk) have a theory that she [Mayor Alice] may have killed the other faced Alice Leal Guo, and then took her identity as the mayor is Guo Huaping. This is basically identity theft yet happened years ago. Now, Mayor Alice has nowhere to hide as she is cornered... unless someone protects her. Which i theorize to be former president Rodrigo Duterte. I mean, ther was a picture shown on tv which had Mayor Alice and pres. Duterte! He supports the Chinese and possibly was the one protecting Mayor Alice and her shit for POGO to operate on Tarlac. Then theres these senators in favor of legalizing POGO, along with the fucking Duterte family. I swear, these politicians, senators, government people or whatever they are called, will be the death of the Philippines. They cause nothing but corruption and destruction. There are only few humble ones like Sen. Hontiveros and Sen. Legarda etc. This is a matter of National Security and it is quite alarming to see that there is an influx of chinese people and business here in the Philippines. Im not sure why but I feel like theyre trying to corner us, not only on water, but also on land and politics shit.

And that issue about Cataduanes and the rise of Chinese "students" in Cagayan should be addressed soon after Alice Guo's case. And ive seen some news about chinese vessels patroling on the left [viewer's pov] side of the country, specifically the area of Cataduanes, an island province. It has a pure Chinese mayor and governor and from what i heard, there are lots of business there taken over by chinese. The sheer audacity [for China] to actually invest and spend money to slowly invade shit on us. And now, whats next? A fucking hand salute? A fuckung hymn to sing and shit? Actually no, dont. But the thought of disrespecting and ruining the shit out of them [Chinese] MAKES ME EXCITED tbh. Just the thought of hating on the government alone is exciting. Man i, for sure am getting trouble for posting shit like this. And im going to shout it again

ATIN AND WEST PHILIPPINE SEA!! KAYA NGA MAY TERM NA "PHILIPPINE" EH, KASI SAMIN YON. 🇵🇭

Nakakabaliw eh, ayoko na sanang magpost pa ng ganto, kaso napipilitan ako dahil may kakayanan naman akong magpost at mag-spread awareness. Nakakairita na talaga yung gobyerno eh noh. Or ung mundo in general. Nagkakagulo na lahat, yung tipong iisipin mo nalang na kamatayan ang lunas rito.

[thearbourist]

Why Identity Politics Are So Prevalent

Why Identity Politics Are So Prevalent

I mean, the short answer is that identity politics are useless.  But the long detailed answer is good too.

[sivavakkiyar]

anti-idpol white leftists and anti-idpol indian leftists, plz fight to the mutual death

[awsocute-blog1]

[Hollywood News] Roger Scruton: The Identity Crisis of Western Democracies

[Hollywood News] Roger Scruton: The Identity Crisis of Western Democracies

[Hollywood News] Roger Scruton: The Identity Crisis of Western Democracies Sir Roger Vernon Scruton is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views. In recent years he teached courses in Buckingham University, Oxford University and University of St. Andrews.

In this video he talks…

[couldnthelpbutwonder]

Bhedad, Teuilé

Behdad, Ali. "Mediated Visions: Early Photography of the Middle East and Orientalist Network." History of Photography 41.4 (2017): 362-75. Web.

Ali Bhedad portrays portrays “Method” as a neutral, objective thing. But methods quite influence politics and mentalities. Intentions and agendas can be justified by method. His approach is looking at objects (photographs, artwork) in an aestehtic wa and not in a bigger context of historical circumstances.

According to Bhedad, Edward Said genereally viewed Orientalism “as a closed system as a cumulative and corporate identitiy to dominate the East”. Behdad does not agree with always giving pictures an intentionality, which we would commonly describe as an “Imperailist lens” or colonialist gaze nowadays.

“Agency” is not in the unique actor, but in the whole social system that constructs Orientalism or colonial power.

Behdad’s arguments show its problematic side when we actively examine the types of pictures/photogtaphs being taken in the mid to late 19th century in the “Middle East”. An example are Scottish photographers John Cramb photpgraphs. An official photographer of the queen, in the 1860s he travelled to biblical sites to take pictures. His intentions are of Religious Christian intention, the “Holy Land” being translated into modern religious practices while ignoring the contemporary development of the city of Jerusalem for example.  Crambs mission was showing that the Bible was true. What kinds of images are taken? Bhedad notes that panoramic views were being taken, although he dismisses a bigger intention or ideology behind it.

In the 1860s, Darwin had just published his book “The Descent of the Species”, which questioned the voracity of the Bible. Summarized very simply, Darwin states thathumans descended form monkeys and the world is much older than 5000 years old. This clearly shows Cramb’s entitled approach to taking these photographs of proving that Darwin is wrong.

Teulié, Gilles. "Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes." Cahiers Victoriens Et édouardiens 89.89 Spring (2019): 1-17. 

Historians of photgraphy have generally neglected the works of early European and local photographers of the Middle East. Teuilé points out that the rediscovery of large archives in the 1980s has come at the cost of obfuscating the context of both these images’ production and reception because art historians and museum curators lumped them together as “art”. 

We can make a direct connection to Bhedad, who sees these rediscovered archives as purely that, art. Teuilé makes a different argument: That a distinction should be made among “the aims and functions” of photography, viewed in a larger historical context and the political powers acting behind it.

[seeselfblack]

Steve Biko, The Father of the Black Conscious Movement, was arrested On August 18, 1977...

Stephen Bantu Biko the father of the Black Conscious Movement (BCM) was arrested August 18, 1977. He died in police custody 42 years ago on September 12 1977. He remains one of SA’s most iconic struggle heroes and his life and ideas continue to inspire generations...

15 Facts About Steve Biko & the Black Conscious Movement (BCM)

1. Biko Founded the Black Consciousness Movement While in Medical School — Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement while in medical school, fighting against apartheid polices and encouraging pride in black identitiy and cultural heritage... He said, “Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.”

According to the Biko Foundation — ‘The primary aim of “black consciousness” was to raise the self esteem of black Africans (through lectures and community activities). Biko felt the apartheid system had such a strong psychological effect on the black population that it caused Blacks to internalize and believe whites’ racist stereotypes. He thought that blacks had been convinced they were inferior to whites, which resulted in the hopelessness that was prevalent in the black community. Biko preached Black solidarity to ‘break the chains of oppression.’

...The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was an influential student movement in the 1970s in Apartheid South Africa. BCM promoted a new identity and politics of racial solidarity and became the voice and spirit of the anti-apartheid movement at a time when both the African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress had been banned in the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre. The BCM reached its zenith in the Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 but declined quickly afterward...

... The elements of Black pride and celebration of black culture linked the Black Consciousness Movement back to the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as the ideas of pan-Africanism and La Negritude movement. It also arose at the same time as the Black Power movement in the United States, and these movements inspired each other; Black Consciousness was both militant and avowedly non-violent. The Black Consciousness movement was also inspired by the success of the FRELIMO in Mozambique...

2. His name makes a sentence with the names of his siblings — ...Together, their names create the saying “Hayi ukuBukeka kweKhaya laBantu aBandileyo” which means “We admire the expanded family”...

3. Biko Was Born in Present-Day Eastern Cape & Was Expelled From a Prestigious High School Because of His Brother’s Political Actions — Lovedale School accused Biko, his brother and 50 other students of supporting an organisation affiliated with the banned Pan Africanist Movement (PAC) and he was expelled aged 15... this event politicized Biko...

4. Biko went on to medical school at University of Natal Medical School

5. Biko was initially involved with the multiracial National Union of South African Students, but after he became convinced that Black, Indian and Coloured students needed an organization of their own, he helped found the South African Students’ Organisation 10. (SASO), whose agenda included political self-reliance and the unification of university students in a “black consciousness”. In 1968 Steve Biko was elected its(SASO) first president. Steve Biko was also involved with the World Student Christian Federation. In the early 1970s Steve Biko became a key figure in The Durban Moment.

6. In 1972 he was expelled from the University of Natal because of his political activities and he became honorary president of the Black People’s Convention. He was banned by the apartheid regime in February 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time nor to speak in public

7. Steve Biko and the BCM played a significant role in organising the protests which culminated in the Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976...

8. Biko Died in Police Cusotdy Naked & Restrained After Suffering a Major Head Injury During a Brutal Interrogation — Police claimed Biko suffered a head injury during a “scuffle.” It was later revealed that he was beaten and tortured, and after suffering the injury he was driven, naked and chained, to a police hospital in Pretoria, 700 miles away, where he died on September 12, 1977, on his floor cell...

9. His seminal work I Write What I like was published posthumously — a collection of Biko’s writings between 1969 and 1972 when he was the president of South African Student Organisation (Saso). He wrote under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

10. Biko Is Survived by His 4 Children & His Legacy Is Celebrated Around the World

...Biko’s legacy has been celebrated around the world, with statues erected in his honor and streets renamed for him, in places including South Africa, Britain, the United States and Brazil...

Journalist Donald Woods wrote a book about his life and death, called Biko, which was later turned into the 1987 film Cry Freedom, starring Denzel Washington as Biko.

11. The student affairs building at UCT is named after him — The Steve Biko Union Building at the University of Cape Town houses the students’ representative council (SRC) and other student societies...

12. Denzel Washington and Richard Branson donated to have his statue erected —The statue of Biko erected in East London was made possible by donations from Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson at the behest of Biko’s long-time friend Donald Woods...

13. He was a google doddle on his 70th birthday —

14. Even though Steve Biko was never a member of ANC, ANC has included him in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa’s first non-racial elections in 1994

See Also:

- 7 things you didn't know about: Steve Biko

- The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)

- Steve Biko Calls for Black Consciousness

- GOOGLE: Steve Biko: The Black Consciousness Movement

- South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s

[jae-writes-fanfiction]

Awake and Unafraid

Notes: This doesn’t include my usual list of characters for GoT, just ones that I had some HC’s for. All of these are personal head-cannons and are in no way meant to invalidate the characters as written in the show or by GRRM. Enjoy! 😘❤ 

Oberyn Martell

Pansexual as fuck, is attracted to a wide range of people on and off the gender binary.

Doesn’t give two fucks about gender norms and would be the type of man to wear “women’s clothes” if he felt they were flattering on him or somehow advantageous in battle or for espionage purposes.

Has no shame about sexuality in any form, relating mostly to the culture of Dornish people who are more into romancing wherever and whoever they want.

- - -

Ser Brienne

Biromantic Lesbian. Meaning she’s fallen in love with men before/had romantic feelings for men but is attracted to women physically.

Was dmab and is a trans* woman, who prefers to dress and present in a more masculine manner.

Comes from a place where sexuality and gender aren’t discussed and as a result doesn’t offer details on her identity unless she is absolutely certain they are trustworthy and safe.

Her father is unsupportive of her identitiy and at times to add insult to injury forces her to wear/do strictly male or female coded things as a cruel joke.

- - -

Margaery Tyrell

Very much a closeted lesbian, who has probably always known men weren’t her thing, yet is an heiress and knows her best chance at power are through straight marriages.

Isn’t ashamed of her sexuality, and isn’t bothered by people’s remarks towards her revealing clothes or shameless flirtations.

Is proud of her femininity and the power it holds over most of the men in the capital and sees that part of who she is as an advantage.

Unfortunatly very in love with Sansa, which briefly complicates her unending thirst for power and status.

- - -

Renly Baratheon

Gay Excellence at it’s finest. He’s painfully obviously gay but still has some reservations on being completely out in the current political climate 

Had super straight, traditionally masculine brothers so has a lot of anxiety about being outside of the traditional gender binary and it’s roles.

In the reality where he lives and becomes king,he is the first King to have a male consort.

Would legalize lgbt marriages if it wasn’t already legal in universe

- - -

Yara Greyjoy

Free-wheeling pansexual who cares less about the methods of sex and more about the having of it in general. 

Prefers to be pleasantly surprised with whatever her partner has to bring to the table.

Aromantic, feels strongly about her partners platonically, but not romantically.

is gendrefuid/nonbinary with no plans or cares about outward performances of gender, often regards that aspect of their identities as an afterthought

totally uses the “King” title just to mess with people

- - -

Missandei 

Comes from a culture where people don’t believe in the institution of marriage, or monogamy resulting in a more fluid identitity.

Doesn’t understand the need to label her feelings but does so when asked

Is a queer demiromantic 

She happened to fall in love with an asexual man

She enjoys some types of sexual intimacy although she prioritizeshaving a strong intimate emotional connection first. 

[corpsefaking-moved]

tried to explain taht buttigeig isnt good to my step dad and he literally said that russian bots spread lies about democratic nominees that are tailored to their identitiy politics and he thinks i gets my information from looney conspiracy websites 

[a-cute-trans-man]

The transgender identitiy is both social, medical and political, and to treat it as solely political/medical or solely social is flawed and disingenuous.

Note: Political doesn’t mean you choose it based on your political beliefs. It means the way trans people are treated socially and medically is not only a decission of doctors, but also of politicians. Whilst it would be great if being ourselves wasn’t a political stance, it is and to say otherwise is a lie.

[nekonokitikiti]

Same with how many politicians have been playing multiplayer games and making them political campaigns. You wanna play games in your own time, great, don't drop your identitiy and start debating in the middle of Among Us. It's nothing but campaigning and political stunts.

It’s ironic because they don’t look at US as real people. 

[autogyne-redacted]

Setting I think a lot about how all gender related shit that's a built around a binary or spectrum is rooted in (though not necessarily defined by) human sexual dymorphism.

Male and female gives us man in woman, gives us masculine and feminine, gives us reappropriations like butch and femme.

And these are all different, being rooted in something doesn't make a concept reducible to it's roots.

But if you try and find something at the core of any of these concepts, that's gonna be a futile search.

Which has some major implications for non-binary shit. Namely, if you're trying to form some kind of rigid, systematic mapping of gender positions, (within the context of the dominant gender schema) either everyone becomes nb or no one can be nb.

Either being nb is just about recognizing that the binary is imposed on us, or nb is trying to refer to some real, meaningful, defined position and will fail. Because manhood and womanhood are not real. coherant classes of people, and thus a category defined against them cannot be either.

Attempts to make nb meaningful as part of a coherent gender schema often require constructing manhood and womanhood as totally conformist, so that all breaks with the norms of the binary become nb. And this is how we get C@thy Brënn&n saying she's nb because she wears jeans.

Which has me coming back again and again to the conclusion that nb can meaningfully refer to people who dis-identify with manhood and womanhood. And that's it. It's an identity term. It can serve as short hand for the type of language people like. *Perhaps* loosely the way they relate to certain archtypes and social positions and characteristics. But that's it.

Tons of people id as nb while still totally passing as their assigned gender and being comfortable with it. Some folks id as a binary gender while being super non-conforming, or not passing, or whatever. These are not coherant classes.

Manhood and womanhood can be convenient shorthand because people who identify with manhood tend toward certain kinds of positions and vice versa, but there's no substance beneath it. And no room for freedom in reducing people to what other folks in their shared categories are generally like.

There can be real affinities when gender is rooted in something. We may navigate identities in wildly different ways but I have so much common experience with a lot of (especially camab) trans folks. And when other folks target us based on identities (whether it's those we claim or those projected onto us) we may have to engage with those in our responses. There are real divides in my communities around who gets targeted and who stands with them that totally tie in with gender, but not in a clean way. Those who apologize for our oppression claim trans identities far too often for that to remain meaningful to me.

But on the whole, I increasingly feel that gender theory is dead. Attempts to cling to the illusiom of coherant meaning will turn reactionary more and more.

I sort of bracketed different cultural contexts before, but I don't think they add a ton at this level. If they have meanings similar enough to the dominant structure to be regicnized as gender, as manhood and womanhood, then they're similar enough for this analysis to apply.

If they have some recognition for trans existence, cool. But you don't get a gender structure with discrete categories that's compatible with the dominant gender structure without violence. Humans don't come in nice neat categories.

So, we can talk about what folks identify with. Manhood or womanhood, neither or both or something shifting, or a partial / messy connection with one or the other. And how this relates to their assignment.

We can talk about folks who generally align with the normal of their assigned gender, or their chosen gender, and those who generally clash with them.

We can talk about folks who medically transitioning and those who don't.

These are all fine descriptive categories, so long as we don't try to make them more than that.

We can seek out real affinities where they exist.

And we can respond when folks weaponized identitiy against us.

But at the end of the day, gender is identity, and politics of identity don't get us anywhere.

[politfuckery]

micro identitiy based politics are the death of social movements and the reason why the modern left is just a circus full of narcissist clowns

[hakuteeth]

hiii im sorry if im bothering u but do u think it's wrong to say harry is part of the lgbt+ community? cos ive been seeing this Discourse and idk. some people get so defensive and angry when someone says harry is gay and they're so quick to pull the He Doesnt Label Himself! card and i just dont get it cos like. i honestly dont think he would be offended by it? i dont think it would bother him at all but idk. im just rambling. u dont have 2 answer if u dont want to! i hope u had a nice day

hello!!! i hope u had a nice day as well!! tbh this might seem controversial but i dont see any problem with saying harrys part of the community if ur not cishet ur welcome basically i think identity politics kinda absorb the discussion and i think its fair when ppl say hes not part of the community cause he hasnt identified himself as such but for me i genuinely just dont see a problem with it (calling him queer on the other hand is yikes for me) calling him gay can be a pretty grey area as well cause i dont think harry would mind but i dont condone behavior that puts a label on somebody that they might not identify with if somebody called me a lesbian before i felt comfortable in doing so than it probably wouldnt have been a positive experience (not saying harry is gay just relating an experience to the discussion)

but like identity lgbt identitiy in particular are personal journeys and i dont think people are allowed to co-opt harrys personal labels about them aside i feel like “part of the lgbt community” can be interpreted in a number of ways such as is this person welcome or are they automatically in, for me anybody who is questioning or doesnt use a label automatically gets an invitation ya know whether or not harry ever explicitly discusses any of this tho is another matter

sorry for the long reply im avoiding homework lol

[wedontcareaboutyourbinary]

The language around alignment is really harmful imo. For a long time I didn't think there was even a point to claiming a genderfluid identitiy because I believe fem-aligned meant I was "basically female" and that trying to sort out my identity was encroaching on nonbinary spaces. But then again, I was listening to cis wlw and mlm on that when I should have been asking nonbinary people.

Yeah! It’s the way cis people have been using it to mean “basically female/male” that I have SUCH a huge issue with. If ONLY non-binaries could use the terms, our language? Then it would be fantastic and probably solve so so so many problems I have with it. 

IMO cis people shouldn’t be aloud to talk about “aligned nbs” in their politics because they have 0 understanding of how alignment works and how non-binary genders work or what we experience.

Alignment terms should be NB exclusive terms, only for US to use and talk about. Cis wlw and mlm are no more entitled to our words JUST because they’re also LGBT+. They need to back the fuck off. Alignment is personal, not a way of measuring oppressors (also??? cis women saying certain NBs can oppress and have privilege over them if they ID as anything but women-aligned is so SO SO transparently trying to escape cis privilege! Call these women the FUCK out if you ever see it! NBs are NOT men, they’re non-binary, and do not access privilege over cis women for being either part men or not-women-at-all)

[fuckyeahasexual]

hey so i know radicalism can gain a lot of followers, esp when i see regs here are almost always aphobes, biphobes, enbyphobes and intersexists all at once (even if they deny some of it, they try to weed out 'straight bi's' and 'not lgbt bi's', force 'women aligned' and 'men aligned' on nb ppl against their will to see if their relationships are gay enough, and don't believe intersex ppl can each decide if they want to be part of the community), and i see reg rethoric and terf rethoric (cont)

and it's the FUCKING SAME. in an effort to inform young bby queers on radfem rethoric to avoid, i ventured into terf blogs, which i normally block bc safety. generally, terfs were all aphobes and biphobes. the ones who didn't mention it were reblogging aphobic posts THINKING IT WAS ABOUT TRANS WOMEN. their arguements are WORD FOR WORD. if you replace the oppressed group, word for word. and it's fcking terrifying that regs have 'no terfs/swers/homophobes/transphobes/truscum' in their about (cont)

and actively enable terf rethoric. i've been well versed in radfem rethoric bc i've been trained to avoid it since day one, so i can recognize the dogwhistles terfs and other regs use, but not a lot of people do. so they see a post that 'makes sense' (men/straight ppl shouldn't feel they can invade women's/lgbt spaces) and reblog, and get indoctrinated slowly. and it's such a mess. tumblr lgbt+ politics in general are swarming with radfem rethoric and it's disgusting and terrifying (cont, sorry)

(tw suicidal thoughts and abuse) now, the regs literally made me feel suicidal and gaslighted me to no end, sent abusive and violent messages my way, simply for believing aces are not straight?? lmao?? i deleted my tumblr, but i'm still traumatized. not only did they gaslight the abuse i faced for being ace, but as a traumatized abuse survivor, they made me feel unsafe. with my identitiy, with myself, and w other queer ppl. i'm terrified this rethoric will spread. do u think it's very widespread

on the internet and in other spaces or would you say it's just a vocal minority?? idk what to do i'm terrified. i'm pretty sure regs tried to hack into my email and fb account too since i got a notification for both those things. i live constantly afraid and i'm terrified it's going to get worse. especially since so many ppl think they're NOT radfems or are spewing twerf rethoric and say are pro bi (REAL bi!!) and nb ppl and ppl BELIEVE that like...i'm terrified. sorry 4 length thank u so much

I don’t think acephobic exclusionarism is largely widespread, and neither are other forms of radicalism, depending on the community. Other blogging platforms like reddit and livejournal definitely don’t have the same vitriol you see on Tumblr, and when fuckh8 expressed typical acephobia, people on facebook went off on them.

While radicalism isn’t Tumblr-centric, there’s definitely a disproportionate concentration of REGs here versus anywhere else. 

- Fae