#sizhen

[i-like-danmei-ig]

Chibis I drew for the juniors g4g!!

[linkmesh-communard]

Reread the Gender Ternary article written by @sizhens and thought to myself "hey. I like to think I'm pretty good at digital artwork, I wanna make a cool infographic based on the one in the article... something that'd look really snazzy and professional, befitting such a brilliantly-written theory."

So I just slapped this together in a couple of minutes in paint.net. :) I hope I did the original chart justice. If not, I am absolutely open to getting critiqued about even the tiniest little things.

Note: I originally made the arrows between the P/NP bubble and Subaltern the same shape as the ones within the bubble, but I changed it to be more accurate to the original. The half-arrows felt intentional.

[transyonic-iv]

will i be killed if i say I'm pro-AI art. as someone who has fairly extensively studied / practiced / otherwise dedicated myself to art for like. the last decade of my life. i want to make art my life. i care about art so much. and ai generation re: writing or visual art isn't the downfall of society that ppl often think it is, though i do think that often ppl who use ai for generating images aren't rlly using it for intentional artistic purposes. but most ai art enthusiasts and ai art uhhh whats the word. oppositionists? are often. really out of touch with the width of artistic intent and bias in defining "the artist" vs "the tool" vs "the art"

[jadeharleyinc]

yeah i was originally phrasing this with an "gee only The Orient has exotic cultural-spiritual third sexes because clearly the West is the default and has no culture" angle but i really should've just quoted your article lol

i like the way you straight-up point out that this imaginary orientalist Nonthreatening Nonmedicalized Cisfeminist-Inspiration-Porn-y Third Sex is actually also present in western circles, 100%. the "ancient tradition of androgyny" Nanda invokes, obviously downstream of every western nation wanting to be ancient greece's most specialist spiritual successor... and i'd guess the more modern example of the safely applauded, safely discarded acceptably-gender-nonconforming/genderqueer person.

but obviously that veneer of cultural acceptance is straight-up bullshit. the "third sex" has its identity constructed for it, it is shaped by patriarchy into a scapegoat class that can be exploited to uphold the binary and its already-existing exploitation.

so it's really disheartening to see OP paint comparisons to the western transfem experience as "oppressive" "erasure" and play into the hands of: -the western trad right ("the Third Sex is part of the backwards tradition of The Foreigners, unlike newfangled Western Trannies who threaten our gender binary") -TERFs ("the Third Sex is part of the liberatory/precolonial tradition of The Foreigners, unlike newfangled Western Trannies who reinforce our gender binary") -and of course non-western institutional transphobia (which as you point out, is quite glad to import western third-sexism to justify the immutability of the binary and existence of a scapegoat class).

I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

[turquoisewaves07]

this isn't true and isn't how privilege works...for example as a trans guy I'm very aware that because people percieve me as a guy (even when they know I'm trans, in fact even other trans people do this automatically) I often get deferred to or interrupted less in conversation. Misogyny is so ingrained into society that the male privilege I get isn't automatically overturned by people finding out I'm trans.

Another thing is that what matters is the material benefits someone gets, so even if all the benefits a trans guy is getting from patriarchy are because people think he's a cis guy, he is still getting those benefits.

And if someone is revoking those benefits because they find out he's trans, that's transphobia. It's because he's trans, not specifically because he's a trans guy.

Edit: if you'd like more info about why transandrophobia isn't a useful term, there's a couple things you can do.

Check out Devon Price's great essay Transmisandry Is Not Real.

Read my comments in response to the people responding to this post where I go into more detail.

And for more on the mechanisms of gendered oppression and how trans men can simultaneously experience privilege and oppression, as well as an interesting way of grouping gender, check out Faggotization and The Extant Gender Ternary by The Sizhen System. It's a really interesting essay.

[tumkaafiho]

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[deepseasmetro]

sizhens posting her suspiciously transmasc looking trans timeline makes me, once again, feel so strongly y'all need to see the inverse as well. looking at pics of me in 2018 vs 2020 vs now is like. hilarious. im sorry tgirls for my stolen valor here

like its so fucking funny literally nobody was free of the feminizing effects of covid. not even the transmascs

[the-monkey-ruler]

Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017) 西游伏妖篇

Director: Tsui Hark Screenwriter: Stephen Chow / Li Sizhen / Tsu Hark Starring: Wu Yifan / Lin Gengxin / Yao Chen / Lin Yun / Bao Beier / Battle / Yang Yiwei / Dapeng / Wang Likun / Wang Duo / Zhang Mei'e Genre: Comedy / Action / Fantasy / Costume Country/Region of Production: Mainland China / Hong Kong, China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2017-01-28 (Mainland China) Duration: 108 minutes Also known as: Journey to the West: Demon Chapter 2 / Journey to the West: Demon Chapter / 伏妖篇 / 西游降魔篇2 / 西游·降魔篇2 / 西游·降魔2 IMDb: tt5273624 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

The monk Tang Sanzang finds himself as a giant in a city in India. His master congratulates him on reaching India and retrieving the Sutras, and gives him a halo as a reward. The halo, however, malfunctions and Tang awakes from his dream to find himself in an alley in a village of circus performers with his three disciples: Sun Wukong; Zhu Bajie; and Sha Wujing. Tang encourages Sun Wukong to perform for the villagers, but the disciple refuses. Angered by this stubbornness, Tang provokes Sun Wukong by calling him a "bad monkey", which causes Sun Wukong to smash the village and damage the villagers' homes in his temper. The terrified villagers present the group with money and food for their travels, but Sun Wukong continues wreaking havoc, sending Zhu Bajie and Tang flying through the air. That night, Tang whips Sun Wukong for his disobedience.

The next morning, Tang goes to find water for their breakfast congee and comes across a house. Its host, a beautiful woman in a splendid outfit, welcomes them all in for breakfast with her companions. Sun Wukong, however, sees through their disguises as spider demons; he purposely provokes them until she and the others show their true form. During the subsequent battle, the demons come together to form one huge spider. After being poisoned by the spider, Sha Wujing falls ill and slowly bloats into a fish-like creature. Sun Wukong defeats the spider and Tang attempts to exorcise her, but Sun Wukong smashes in the demon's head with one blow. Once more, Tang is annoyed at Sun Wukong's disobedience and whips him again that evening. Later that night, the enraged Sun Wukong discusses with the other disciples his plans to kill Tang, but the others fear Tang's mighty Buddha Palm powers. Tang overhears this conversation and prays to Buddha to help him and also confesses that he actually does not know, or have, Buddha Palm powers. Zhu Bajie overhears this admission and tells Sun Wukong, who challenges Tang to a fight. Just as Sun Wukong is about to strike, a blinding ray of light shines from the heavens and he retreats.

The next day, the group pass into the capital city of the Biqiu Kingdom and a minister comes out to greet them and bring them to see the king: an immature and childlike man who likes to play games. The king orders Tang to perform for him but the monk does not have anything to showcase. Sun Wukong therefore pastes an "obedience sticker" on Tang allowing Tang to copy his actions and perform stunts for the king. Sun Wukong, however, goes too far and makes Tang slap the king continuously, who throws them all out. Tang orders Sun Wukong to return and apologize, but it is revealed that Sun Wukong purposely provoked the king to make him reveal his form as the demon Red Boy. They fight and Sun Wukong defeats Red Boy, also freeing the true king of Biqiu from his cage under the throne. As a reward for helping him, the king presents them with a beautiful girl, Felicity, to accompany them on their travels. As Felicity dances for them, Tang is reminded of his deceased lover, Duan.

The group set off and on the way, Sun Wukong realizes that Felicity is actually a demon. In the meantime, Felicity takes out the nose plugs on Sha Wujing, allowing him to sneeze out the poison and turn him back into his human form. Tang, however, does not believe him, so they set off to visit Felicity's home village. Sun Wukong becomes enraged with Tang's lack of trust in him and that night he destroys the whole village, killing everyone. Tang stops him from killing Felicity, further angering Sun Wukong, who attacks Tang, but Felicity finally confesses that she is actually the demon White Bone Spirit and that the whole village was an illusion conjured by her. Sun Wukong flares up and turns into a giant Monkey King demon and swallows Tang. At that moment, the minister and Red Boy arrive and see Sun Wukong has fallen for their trick.

They had deliberately sent Felicity with the group to cause strife between Tang and Sun Wukong, so Sun Wukong would kill his master. Sun Wukong spits Tang out, however, as they had known this all the while; they only played along so that the minister would reveal her true form. They battle and the minister creates an illusion of Buddhas surrounding Sun Wukong, using them to fight him. The real Buddha, however, uses his giant palm to destroy the false Buddhas and reveals the minister's real identity as the Immortal Golden Vulture.

After the battle, Tang heads back to find a dying Felicity. He has no choice but to free her soul as there is too much demon in her. Before she dies, Felicity asks Tang if he loves her. Tang replies that he has only one person in his heart. The animosity between Tang and Sun Wukong has finally dissolved; together with Sha Wujing and Zhu Bajie, they continue their journey to the West through a desert.

In a post-credits scene, breaking of the fourth wall is invoked with the appearance of a modern movie theater, where theater employees tell both the viewer and the in-story audience that it’s time to leave and there is no post-credits scene

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West:_The_Demons_Strike_Back

Link: https://ww5.0123movie.net/movie/journey-to-the-west-the-demons-strike-back-19438.html?play=1

[cappucino-commie]

also beloved communist transgender mutuals. I am looking for bite sized pieces of (trans)feminist theory, and related intersectional theory. I specify bite sized as I am trying to set up a reading/discussion group within the queer group I am in, to make some of the conversations we have less terrible.

So far I am considering:

The blog & excerpts from works of Serano, like basic primers on transmisogyny and de-gendering.

The blog of Talia Bhatt (I have not read all of her work but at least her piece on the Third Sex feels very important to introduce to an overwhelmingly white trans queer group)

Sandy Stone

Susan Stryker

Krenshaw's original paper on intersectionality (I know there are mixed feelings on the rest of her bourgeois feminist career but it's seminal)

(If we get to the point where I feel comfortable introducing more explicitly commie stuff) the Power/Not-Power/Subaltern trinary gender system article written by Sizhen (@/maowives)

I feel like what I'm really missing:

A good body of work on restorative justice in a transfeminist context - something which is not Hot Allostatic Load that discusses disposability politics within queer spaces.

More intersecting critical race theory/transfeminist work.

(Before anyone asks, I cannot suggest reading Lenin. I'll get there someday.)

[jeaninelatragedia]

anyway read this article by sizhens dot tumblr dot com. fascinatingly succint yet effective at landing the thing i was talking about in a roundabout way.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/sizhens/772760187588296704?source=share

"#zionists: famously people who do not commit sexual war crimes against the colonized peoples of the settler colony they occupy"

I bet Op thinks marginalized groups can’t do bad things and only those with power can rape

can someone check what they posted on October 8th?

[tezuka-rin]

sizhens literally took down the post which you claim is all you asked yet you still keep reblogging your pinned post.

Ah, don't check her blog regularly. Will sunset it.

[timmie-p]

guys im gonna read tumblr user sizhens extant gender ternary and then i will talk sbout gender abolition. rventually. perhaps.

[cavewretch]

hm. small captains log entry of a sort

i think when i was like 19 i decided i Could Not be plural bc that would make me Crazier and we are all very concerned about Being Crazy . also my therapist at the time was like "well if you let yourself read the dsm you'll be relating to all sorts of things! i remember i did that in college but [paraphrased] remembered that was irrational, i couldn't be crazy!" (note: i have not read the dsm. i've had it quoted at me but i have never opened that damn tome.)

BUT sizhen's post and ifs and my remembered love for mr robot and my relating to dpr ian who apparently has DID and my referring to my creatures and versions of myself and my using of the royal we since middle school im like Well . maybe it would be ok to think about this curiously rather than restrictively. but i don't know that i want to bring it up to my therapist bc yeah i trust her but i feel safer if she is thinking about it in ifs terms . i keep not letting myself journal or post or talk about this and the creatures have been Quiet since the terrible no good finals+holidays one-two punch so i'm kind of just gnawing on metaphorical cardboard making myself think in circles . yayyy .

[fullmusicbardsquared]

deleted that post because I realized it was selfish & contrary to the posts actual spirit and point. sizhens i am sorry

[tortuah]

Like connie can be abrasive at times but the post about sizhens hardly even bordered on impolite sheetz kinda just started going off on her