#mitchell feinberg

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Discovery by Daft Punk Typography by Mitchell Feinberg (x)

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InStyle Magazine | March 2011

Birds Nests created by designer brands

Pages 474 - 479

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Decent ending. It would’ve been better with Jesse, Benji and Bumper. But still. Decent ending. I suppose.

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herecomesthefirstday's year in review

Big things: Published a paper & a letter with my job, moved out of my parents' house and in with my boyfriend, stopped having a job, started watching One Piece, flew to Atlanta even though I hate flying, caught up with One Piece

TOP 20 FILMS OF 2023 / more & more year in review (music, TV, books, games) under readmore

Bottoms

Past Lives

Polite Society

The Holdovers

Oppenheimer

John Wick Chapter 4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Rye Lane

Killers of the Flower Moon

May December

Barbie

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

The Pope's Exorcist

Asteroid City

Theater Camp

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

You Hurt My Feelings

Poor Things

They Cloned Tyrone

80 For Brady

BEST SHORT OF 2023: Take Me Home

Songs on repeat / movies I watched and rated 4.5 or 5 stars / books read / TV watched / games played by month

January 🎵 Marigolds - Kishi Bashi American Teenager - Ethel Cain 🎬 Hail, Caesar! (2016) 4.5 Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 5 Fail Safe (1964) 4.5 Honorable mention: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 3.5 📚 World War Z - Max Brooks 🔁1/16 Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/18 Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/23 Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/26 📺 Dark

February 🎵 Partita for 8 Voices - Roomful of Teeth God Is a Freak - Peach PRC 🎬 Third Kind (2018) 4.5 Showgirls (1995) 4.5 Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) 🔁 5 📚 The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa 2/7 Authority - Jeff VanderMeer 2/15 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Bloodline S1

March 🎵 Not Another Rockstar - Maisie Peters 🎬 Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 4.5 John Wick (2014) 🔁 4.5 John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) 🔁 5 Honorable mention: 80 for Brady (2023) 3 📚 Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer 3/4 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Yellowjackets S1 🔁 S2 Poker Face Defending Jacob

April 🎵 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) - Lizzo Daytona Sand - Orville Peck Little Dark Age - MGMT 🎬 John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 4.5 Honorable mention: Rye Lane (2023) 4 📚 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 4/1 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets

May 🎵 Home - Diana Ross Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Gloria - Laura Branigan 🎬 Polite Society (2023) 5 The Joy Luck Club (1993) 4.5 Crank (2006) 4.5 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets White Lotus 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

June 🎵 Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Movin' Out - Billy Joel 🎬 The Fabelmans (2022) 4.5 Casablanca (1942) 🔁 4.5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 4.5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 5 What We Do In The Shadows (2014) 🔁 5 📺 White Lotus Grey's Anatomy Marriage The Bear 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

July 🎵 My House - Diana Ross Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell 🎬 Lady Bird (2017) 🔁 4.5 Pacific Rim (2013) 🔁 5 Whiplash (2014) 5 The Watermelon Woman (1996) 4.5 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 🔁 4.5 Oppenheimer (2023) 4.5 📺 The Bear Grey's Anatomy Black Mirror What We Do In The Shadows Foundation 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom Rocket League

August 🎵 It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion Adagio in D Minor - John Murphy 🎬 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) 4.5 📺 Foundation Only Murders in the Building Grey's Anatomy One Piece 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

September 🎵 American Pie - Don McLean 🎬 Bottoms (2023) 5 📺 One Piece Foundation Grey's Anatomy 🎮 We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (9/9) Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (9/26)

October 🎵 No One Comes Close - Infinity Song New Body Rhumba - LCD Soundsystem No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo 🎬 Past Lives (2023) 5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 🔁 5 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Lupin GBBO 📚 Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc (10/26)

November 🎵 Liability - Lorde Together in Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder 🎬 Annette (2021) 4.5 Electric Dreams (1984) 5 Honorable Mention: Light & Magic (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy GBBO The Crown Mindhunter 🔁 📚 The Uranium Club - Miriam E. Hiebert (11/16)

December 🎵 Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven) - Elisapie Butchered Tongue - Hozier Christmas Baby - Infinity Song Home For Christmas - Infinity Song 🎬 The Holdovers (2023) 4.5 x2 Take Me Home (2023) 5 - short Pro Pool (2022) 4.5 - short Mamma Mia! (2008) 5 🔁 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) 5 🔁 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 5 🔁 Honorable mention: The Quiet Girl (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Only Murders in the Building New Amsterdam Frieren Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury The Crown Pokémon Concierge 🎮 Fall Guys Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 📚 Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (12/25)

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for the books ask: 3, 6, 10, 15, and 20! 📚

thanks for sending!! these r rly fun!!

3. what is ur fave genre?

it's rly hard to pinpoint a favorite! i think i tend to enjoy experimental or hybrid forms that express the marginalization or hybridity of the speaker?

more straightforward versions of this is octavia butler's earthseed religious texts interspersed in the story and leslie feinberg's use of the epistolary form to express what the narrator feels but cannot say. dictee by theresa hak kyung cha has a rly challenging mixed media and language form. carmen maria machado is a master of doing this in a fun very present-day way.

my faves tho r the ones that use culturally specific and usually oral storytelling forms like folktales and myth to tell previously stories. the woman warrior by maxine hong kingston is a straight example but the best are the gay ones i've already talked about: audre lorde's biomythography and larry mitchell's gay fairytale manifesto. real art!!

6. what books have u read in the last month?

read another section of zami by audre lorde it was about her time in mexico, rly magical.

recently bought a lesbian anthology called women on women edited by joan nestle and read a couple stories.

read the first couple pages of mexican gothic. read the first couple pages of i'm glad my mom died. read a few pages of gods of want by k-ming chang, specifically the story called "dykes"

i just got this is how you lose the time war and read the beginning of it! pretty prose, rly fun concept, excited to see how the story unfolds!

10. do u have a guilty fav?

nope!

15. recommend and review a book

oh huh.

pls read human acts by han kang it will reach into ur chest and grab ur heart and crush it into little pieces, briefly separate ur spirit from ur body, connect u to something old ever-present and universal, and retwine it with ur physical form in a way that is wiser about the nature of structural violence and human pain and the persistence of loving memory. u will sob. i sure did.

20. what are things u look for in a book?

for reading it: original premise, good prose, interesting thematic elements, idk general vibes

for buying it: i care a lot about the cover actually. almost didn't buy janelle monae's book cuz i didn't like the cover design.

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Week 10: Online harassment and its consequences for the digital citizen community.

Social media, where digital communities are strongly active and allow people to have the right to freedom of speech. Recently, there have been a lot of concerns across platforms that directly threaten users and one of them is online harassment. Online harassment refers to threats or other abhorrent behaviours targeted specifically at youth through new technology channels, such as text messaging or the Internet, or uncovered online about youth (Jones, Mitchell and Finkelhor 2012, p.54). As it brings back high risk to victims that can influence badly on mental health and behavioural problems, hence, it needs to be thoroughly addressed to reduce and prevent the worst situation from occurring. 

In many pieces of research, there is a variety of harassment such as offensive name-calling, purposeful embarrassment, physical threats, sustained harassment, stalking, and sexual harassment (Duggan, 2017) and among them, the most common types that happen online are offensive name-calling, purposeful embarrassment and sustained harassments. In addition, another typical type of online harassment is cyberbullying - "an act of sending or publishing mean, hurtful, or intimidating text or images via the Internet, cell phone, or other electronic device" through websites including but not limited to chat rooms, instant messaging, emails, and social networking sites (Feinberg and Robey 2009, p.26). Besides those types, online harassment can exist in many forms, such actions include the spreading of false information, abusive direct messaging, and even the distribution of private information without consent, including sexual images. If those who commit online harassment single out a person based on an aspect of their perceived or actual identity - for example, their gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability-those protected characteristics (Haslop, O’Rourke and Southern 2021, p.1420). 

There is no doubt that this phenomenon will leave consequences that have negative impacts on digital citizens. Some of them could affect the self-esteem and the online presence of a part of the user like emotional discomfort, self-censorship, and withdrawal from social media and other online platforms (Vitak et al. 2017, p.1233). Moreover, the worst situation as long-term emotional trauma when numerous studies have indicated that victims of online harassment may suffer from a series of negative effects of stress, worry, fear, panic attacks, and suicidal ideation in severe conditions (Haslop, O’Rourke and Southern 2021, p.1421). 

For more details, I will analyse the Snowflake generation as an example. This term is indicated to young people, particularly university students to make fun of their alleged intolerance and easily offended disposition (Nicholson, 2016). Haslop, O’Rourke and Southern have analysed and deduced a conclusion about this generation: these ‘snowflakes’ are too sensitive and often encounter derogatory, abusive, and harassing internet communications. The survey found that one-quarter of the students were harassed online or thought they were themselves. Overall, this cohort of research participants indicated that a variety of unwelcome, abusive, and harassing communication could well occur when they interacted with other peers online, thus appearing to demonstrate their belief in these practices being common in such digital spaces. The study also identifies that transgender and female students report their experience of online harassment more often than their male-identified counterparts. Based upon such findings, social inequalities between groupings of gendered individuals are influenced by deep-rooted gendered injustices in a digital environment that is masculinised (2021). 

Therefore, some actions need to be taken to prevent or even end up consequences of online harassment. The most basic thing still comes from the consciousness of each of us by raising awareness and advocacy in resisting and condemning bullying or threatening others online. Furthermore, instead of deactivating individuals, all social media platforms should provide options such as blocking a harasser, banning people who harass others repeatedly, or making it simple for users to convert to a limited version of their account that only permits a select group of users to interact. Algorithms and machine learning techniques could be a good way to detect harmful language and content that are always evolving to better classify those harassments. (Vitak et al. 2017, p.1240).

References:

Copp, J.E., Mumford, E.A. and Taylor, B.G. (2021) 'Online sexual harassment and cyberbullying in a nationally representative sample of teens: Prevalence, predictors, and consequences,' Journal of Adolescence, 93(1), pp. 202–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.10.003. 

Duggan, M. (2017) Online Harassment 2017. http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017/ (Accessed: November 17, 2024). 

Feinberg, T. and Robey, N. (2009) 'CYBERBULLYING,' The Education Digest, pp. 26–31. https://www.proquest.com/openview/df7b85db5268ac4d18d07478e8fe197f/1.pdf?cbl=25066&loginDisplay=true&pq-origsite=gscholar. 

Haslop, C., O’Rourke, F. and Southern, R. (2021) '#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture,' Convergence the International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 27(5), pp. 1418–1438. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856521989270. 

Jones, L.M., Mitchell, K.J. and Finkelhor, D. (2012) 'Online harassment in context: Trends from three Youth Internet Safety Surveys (2000, 2005, 2010).,' Psychology of Violence, 3(1), pp. 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030309. 

Nicholson, R. (2016) '‘Poor Little Snowflake’: the defining insult of 2016.,' The Guardian [Preprint], (28). 

Vitak, J. et al. (2017) 'Identifying Women’s Experiences With and Strategies for Mitigating Negative Effects of Online Harassment,' CSCW ’17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 1231–1245. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998337. 

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In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Robert Caulfield: Elliott Gould Col. Charles Brubaker: James Brolin Kay Brubaker: Brenda Vaccaro Lt. Col. Peter Willis: Sam Waterston Cmdr. John Walker: O.J. Simpson Dr. James Kelloway: Hal Holbrook Judy Drinkwater: Karen Black Albain: Telly Savalas Hollis Peaker: David Huddleston Walter Loughlin: David Doyle Sharon Willis: Lee Bryant Betty Walker: Denise Nicholas Elliot Whitter: Robert Walden Control Room Man: James B. Sikking Capsule Communicator: Alan Fudge Vice President Price: James Karen F.B.I. Man Number 1: Jon Cedar General Enders: Hank Stohl President: Norman Bartold Dr. Bergen: Darrell Zwerling Dr. Burroughs: Milton Selzer Horace Gruning: Lou Frizzell Mrs. Peaker: Nancy Malone Jerry: Paul Picerni Alva Leacock: Barbara Bosson Reporter (uncredited): Bob Harks Film Crew: Casting: Jane Feinberg Casting: Mike Fenton Set Decoration: Rick Simpson Production Design: Albert Brenner Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director of Photography: Bill Butler Costume Design: Patricia Norris Sound mixer: Jerry Jost Stunt Coordinator: Bill Hickman Makeup Artist: Michael Westmore Location Manager: Ron Underwood Assistant Director: Irby Smith Art Direction: David M. Haber Producer: Paul Lazarus III Director: Peter Hyams Special Effects: Henry Millar Associate Producer: Michael I. Rachmil Editor: James Mitchell Still Photographer: Bruce McBroom Script Supervisor: Marshall J. Wolins Hairstylist: Emma M. diVittorio Boom Operator: Joseph Kite Special Effects: Bruce Mattox Special Effects: Robert Spurlock Camera Operator: James R. Connell Title Designer: Dan Perri Movie Reviews: John Chard: It’s a pleasure alright, and I don’t feel guilty about it at all!. A NASA space mission up to Mars fails to get off the ground due to major technical problems. Fearing funding could be taken away and wishing to avoid embarrassment, the powers that be decide to do a fake landing in a studio. With the astronauts forced to pretend that they are actually up on Mars, and fighting with their own personal belief systems, the government executives in charge fear that the fake flight could come to light. Upon learning that the outside world actually thinks they crashed upon reentering the earths atmosphere, the astronauts run for their lives knowing that the government can’t afford for the men to stay alive. Capricorn One is an excellent conspiracy picture that sadly seems to have been largely forgotten. Even today we are still hearing mooted stories of the landing on the moon actually being fake, so here director and writer Peter Hyams takes it and crafts a thrillingly taut piece of work. At the films heart is Elliot Gould’s (his great 70s work under valued) intrepid journalist, Robert Caulfield, after being nudged in the ribs by one of his friends at NASA, is himself under threat of death from shadowy government types who will think of nothing to offing him along with the astronauts. The film is split into two very significant halves, the first half is the set up, the conversations before and after the fake landing are clever and crucially attention grabbing, and of course we get to know our characters with the right amount of time. The film then shifts for the second half into a quality thriller chase movie, our main protagonists pursued by the government assassins courtesy of two gun toting helicopters. Jerry Goldsmith’s score brilliantly becoming part of the chase sequences, making the helicopters seem like death stalking machines operated by no man alone. We even get Telly Savalas joi...

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April Wrap Up!!! 📚📖🌸

I had a really good reading month, both in terms of quantity and quality. I actually ended up doing 30 in 30. Sometimes a switch just flips in my brain that lets me read faster than usual, but it also helps that about half of these were under 200 pages.

Turtles of the Midnight Moon and Beneath the Lion's Gaze contributed to my Read the World Challenge, with Honduras and Ethiopia respectively, and my favorite of the month is a tie between Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg and The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen!

Full titles and star ratings under the cut!

Turtles of the Midnight Moon by María José Fitzgerald- 4.5⭐️

The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya- 3⭐️

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes- 4.5⭐️

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg- 5⭐️

The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke- 4⭐️

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd- 4.5⭐️

Knot My Type by Evie Mitchell- 2⭐️

Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts- 5⭐️

Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh- 4.5⭐️

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Taherah Mafi- 3.5⭐️

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria- 5⭐️

Jingo by Terry Pratchett- 5⭐️

Batgirl: Stephanie Brown vol 1 by Bryan Q Miller, et al- 5⭐️

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky- 5⭐️

Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. by Noor Hindi- 5⭐️

The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah- 3⭐️

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong- 5⭐️

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen- 5⭐️

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes- 5⭐️

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H- 5⭐️

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by RM Romero- 5⭐️

Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero by E Lockhart- 4⭐️

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste- 5⭐️

The Justice League International vol 2 by Keith Giffen, et al- 3.5⭐️

To Night Owl From Dogfish by Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan- 4⭐️

Green Arrow: Year One by Andy Diggle, et al- 1⭐️

Teen Titans vol 1: A Kid's Game by Geoff Johns, et al- 4⭐️

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman- 5⭐️

Exhalation by Ted Chiang- 5⭐️

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao- 5⭐️

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the people I found led to me developing my ideas of dissociative genderspace, how people conceptualize gender and sexuality when their personalities developed in circumstances of chronic dehumanizing traumatic stress. Dorothy Allison, Eli Clare, Wickie Stamps, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Leslie Feinberg, Larry Mitchell, Jan Brown, Patrick Califa.

one of the most important things I learned from the life of Leslie Feinberg and from the writings of hir long term romantic partner was how much Leslie went back and forth (in a really familiar and dissociative way) on how much zie identified as any one gender and how much this had to do with how many times zie was raped. The quantity and the brutality of the rapes exerted different degrees of power depending on where Leslie was and what zie was experiencing at any one moment; sometimes zie was all man, sometimes zie couldn’t bear to be seen as a man for a single second. this ambiguousness and back and forthness didn’t weaken hir, zie still dragged hirself out of hir deathbed to get cece mcdonald out of jail, zie still died as a trans revolutionary communist. the rape and the abuse and the fractalized dissociative thinking that resulted from all the rape and abuse did not compromise hir; they added to the depth and scale of the whole picture.

there’s this thing where like I went looking for myself because of course I did

I wanted to find queer people who had been blasted out of themselves, who had assembled some degree of Self from the radioactive wreckage of what had happened before

I began to encounter a slipperiness that compelled me, especially when I found people who had experienced as I did long periods of captivation and torture, whose minds had made the necessary splits to compartmentalize and preserve some fragment of self in some parallel universe that could escape at least some of the damage

and what ive learned since is that the way these people talk about gender and identity scares the living hell out of the general public

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Mitchell Feinberg Photography

[variousqueerthings]

happy pride reccing some anti-assimilationist, anti-capitalist, and abolitionist books and texts

BOOKS

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? edited by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore (2012)

"Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out," what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle?"

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg (1992)

This pamphlet is an attempt to trace the historic rise of an oppression that, as yet, has no commonly agreed name. We are talking here about people who defy the ‘man’-made boundaries of gender.

Transgender Warriors: Making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg (1996)

[Leslie Feinberg's] book celebrated the resistance to transphobia and a vision of trans liberation articulated from the perspective of class struggle. It understood that no liberation from transphobia or any of the divisive and violent oppressions in class society is possible without the transformation of capitalism into socialism.

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell (1977)

Stories told of these times make the faggots and their friends weep. The second revolutions made many of the people less poor and a small group of men without color very rich. With craftiness and wit the faggots and their friends are able to live in this time, some in comfort and some in defiance.

Also this interview

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein, and S. Bear Bergman (2010)

Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being.

Made In India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects by Suparna Bhaskaran (2004)

Made In India explores the making of "queer" and "heterosexual" consciousness and identities in light of economic privatization, global condom enterprises, sexuality-focused NGOs, the Bollywood-ization of beauty contests, and trans/national activism.

That's Revolting: Queer Strategies For Resisting Assimilation edited by Matilda Bernstein Sycamore (2008)

As the growing gay mainstream prioritises the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance or cultural value.

How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm (2021)

Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism" outside it.

On Connection by Kae Tempest (2020)

On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davies (2003)

If you know anything about Angela Davis—anti-racist activist, Marxist-feminist scholar—you know that her answer to the question posed in the title is "Yes." This is a short primer on the prison abolition movement

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

This profound, urgent, beautiful, and necessary book is an invitation to imagine and organize for a less violent and more liberatory world.

Black Marxism by Cedric Johnson (1983)

Influenced by many African American and Black economists and radical thinkers of the 19th century, Robinson creates a historical-critical analysis of Marxism and the Eurocentric tradition from which it evolved. The book does not build from nor reiterate Marxist thought, but rather introduces racial analysis to the Marxist tradition.

The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice by Shon Faye (2021)

[Shon Faye] provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.

Burn The Binary: selected writings on the politics of being trans, genderqueer, and non-binary by Riki Wilchins (2017)

This single volume offers a selection of Riki’s most penetrating and insightful pieces, as well as the best of two decades of Riki’s online columns for The Advocate never before collected, from "Where Have All the Butches Gone," to "Attack of the 6-Foot Intersex People"

ARTICLES

Assuming The Perspective Of The Ancestor by Claire Schwartz (2022)

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on building constructive, future-oriented politics, at scale.

The Gender Binary Is A Tool For White Supremacy by Kravitz Marshall (2020)

A brief history of gender expansiveness - and how colonialism slaughtered it

Meet Chris Smalls, the man who organized Amazon workers in New York By Anna Betts, Greg Jaffe, and Rachel Lerman (2022)

The fired worker and former rapper did what nobody else has done in the U.S.

The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake by David Brooks (2020)

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being by Donna Lu (2020)

Extinction Isn’t the Worst That Can Happen by Kai Heron (2021)

"This brings us to the third problem with eschatological framings of the climate crisis: they overlook the fact that for many, the end of the world has already happened. In October last year, Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani woman, mother and leader, wrote a desperate letter to the western world reminding us that for Indigenous peoples, “the fires are raging still”."

MISC

Manifesto: An Aromantic Manifesto by yingchen and yingtong

free to read

their tumblr (with further resources)

Essay: I Dream Of Canteens by Rebecca May Johnson (2019)

There is a space for everyone. A space, a glass of water, and a plug socket.* Chairs and tables and cleaned toilets. So many chairs so that no one is without one.

Acceptance Speech (video and text): The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters speech by Ursula Le Guin

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.

And here's a video to cleanse the soul: bell hooks: Transgression

bell hooks & Gloria Steinem at Eugene Lang College

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InStyle Magazine | March 2011

Pages 89 - 100

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Red Nail Varnish by Mitchell Feinberg

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my trans/faggot reading list

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halbertsam

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

gay masculinities by peter nardi

Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Robert J Corber

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets

nevada by imogen binnie

gender nihilism by alyson escalante + addendum

Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans: An Introduction 

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement by  Jian Neo Chen

The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (various)

Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities Sadie E Hale and Tomás Ojeda

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by grace e lavery

delusions of gender by cordelia fine

a failed man by michael v smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

time is the thing a body moves through by T. Fleischmann

kai cheng thom’s writing

we want it all: an anthology of trans radical poetics

second skins: the body narratives of transsexuality by jay prossner

transgender warriors by leslie feinberg

the faggots and their friends between revolutions by larry mitchell

translating the queer: body politics and transnational conversations by hector dominguez ruvalcaba

captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex

we both laughed in pleasure: the selected diaries of lou sullivan

how we get free: black feminism and the combahee river collective

trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer

dagger: on butch women by lily burana

black queer studies: a critical anthology by e patrick johnson and mae g Henderson

queer sex by juno roche

black on both sides: a racial history of trans identities by C. Riley Snorton

transgender liberation by leslie feinberg

female masculinity by jack halberstam

transecology by douglas a vakoch

street transvestite action revolutionaries : survival, revolt, and queer antagonistic struggle (Sylvia Rivera , Marsha P. Johnson)

a body that is ultra body: in conversation with fred moten and elysia crampton

building an abolitionist trans and queer movement with everything we’ve got (morgan bassichis, alexander lee and dean spade, 2011)

feminism and the (trans)gender entrapment of gender nonconforming prisoners (julia oparah, 2012)

normal life: administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law (dean spade, 2015)

Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera by Việt Lê

detransition, baby by torrey peters

paul takes the form of a mortal girl by andrea lawlor

a failed man by michael v. smith (part of persistence: all ways butch and femme)

my new vagina wont make me happy by andrea long chu

sexing the body by Anne Fausto-Sterling

something that may shock and discredit you by danny lavery

the argonauts by maggie nelson

gender outlaws by kate bornstein

special mentions for articles ive read that were already very formative for me

Masquerading As the American Male in the Fifties: Picnic, William Holden and the Spectacle of Masculinity in Hollywood Film by Steven Cohan

The Production and Display of the Closet: Making Minnelli's "Tea and Sympathy” by David Gerstner

huge thanks to @mypocketsnug who sent #20-40

this is not at all intended to be some kind of definitive resource as ive literally read none of these yet save for the two i mention at the bottom and im compiling this for my personal use, im only publishing this bc an anon asked me to! feel free to reblog and also recommend me more but keep this disclaimer in mind