#trans socialist queen

[a-queer-little-wombat]

I almost hate to bring up the part where the being a boy was because of a magic spell to hide her as a baby from the Evil Witches, because, y'know, this is a better story.

the queen of Oz is a trans lesbian and she’s dating Dorothy

[g0dtier]

im trying to see the best in people but sometimes you meet a self-dxed white woman who loves harry potter and queen elizabeth who clearly thinks youre not leftist enough cause you dont agree that men are inherently evil and its just so hard not to just straight up assume shes a terf

[tequiilasunriise]

Being in fandoms where the characters are clearly based on other pieces of media/famous figures is so much fun because then some of my ships look like this:

Parentified Goldilocks who is also The Beast x Avoidance attachment Beauty who is ALSO also The Beast, one of my fav moments with them is when they off the Minotaur together who is ALSO also also The Beast

Little Red Riding Hood if she was also the Wolf and has galloons of repressed trauma x Snow White but she’s heavily knight coded and the poster child of daddy issues

Edgar Allen Poe’s Lenore x Annabel Lee but they’re in gay ghost love

The poem ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ x Odin’s raven Huginn but they’re exes still in love in a milf yuri divorce that ends super mega tragically and domino effects mommy issues out the ass

Historical figures Cleopatra x Frida Kahlo with the most chef’s kiss height difference you’ve ever seen

A polycule with Joan of Arc x Mulan x Thor x Achilles but they’re all genderbent/trans

The Velveteen Rabbit x fashion icon Coco Chanel if she was a lesbian with a gun

Frankenstein’s monster x a different sapphic Cleopatra bc baby gays <3333

Okay okay that black cat from Poe’s, well, The Black Cat x Poe’s Eulalie is cute yes

But I actually really REALLY love Poe’s Eulalie x Poe’s Berenice bc they’re “me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic” personified

The Snow Queen with mega daddy issues x Robin Hood if he was a socialist lesbian I SAIDDDD ITTTT

Imma say it historical figures JFK x Confucius were adorable bros

Aesop’s Fisherman x Odin’s other bird Munin you will always be famous my tragic old man yaoi <////3

Y’all will really have to hear me out here when I say Cinderella if she fucken snapped x ice cream Mad Hatter because couples who are terrible to each other but in a “only I’m allowed to be a horrid to them” way can be so funny

And I could go o n fer ages but the point is imagine explaining these ships to someone like 30 years ago with ZERO context their heads would explode and it’d be so funny

[kyriemrmister]

well

i've finally finished reading the crossover monkees RPF fanfiction (aka Time Prison Fic) that i liked that davy design from and um

how can a fanfiction be so unapologetically LGBT-friendly and anti-TERF and also hate women and sapphics so much?

it's also painfully obvious how much of a self-insert the fic's version of mike is (and tbh it also stinks of naruto harem fic except it's mike nesmith from the monkees instead of naruto and he's transmasc and there's more then women in the harem)

the earlier parts before mike came in were more tolerable (elaine kido is both a girlboss AND a girlfail. what a queen. i love her) but wow the monkees popping up and taking over the story ruined it.

mike literally has none of the babygirl and pathetic meow meow qualities he actually had (according to the monkees fandom on here) and is literally every poorly written alpha male OP self-insert harem smut fic lead on ffnet except he's trans, and surprise! he doesn't just like women! (props to that bit! but it's just an excuse for male and nb characters that half of the writing duo has the hots for to also get into mike's pants and be his cheerleader and do nothing otherwise like the women also do in this fic and almost any other harem fanfiction from ffnet)

there's also other Questionable Things, socks and his flanderization from genuinely good and interesting lead to 'heehoo funny meme guy', for one (i could write an entire dissertion on what the story lovingly calls the 'TFSP' oh man)

and whatever tf they did with micky dolenz (once she comes out as a woman in the fic she just becomes another cheerleader and porking object for mike and they disregard previous characterization for that. did i mention how much that half of the writing duo hates women and sapphics? because wow he sure does)

and tbh this fic also does davy dirty (he's just there for fetishization of fat people because the half of the duo who writes him has a weight gain and feederism kink and it's painfully obvious but he doesn't want to push it on mike because he doesn't want him being 'weak and helpless' or something)

peter is also done pretty dirty too tbh (literally he's just boiled down to 'hippie pacifist plantboy who puts up protective barriers and heals people', which is not a bad concept in itself, but it's executed so SO badly. like you gotta make socialist and bisexual autistic icon and avid woman respecter peter tork into a soft 'don't hurt me or i'll cry' boy to further elevate mike?)

and when a new character appears or an old character from earlier in the fic, 9/10 they're just there to be mike's cheerleader/pork mike/for mike to beat up

there's some genuinely good humor in this fic (the puns and wordplay are top notch in this fic, and they know the right time and place to slip in a meme or reference)

but wow. WOW. does the male half of the writer duo ever hate women and sapphics.

i'm currently reading the reboot of the story and tbh it also stinks of some of the same problems (mike somehow has the ability to turn straight men gay for him, which is funny, but also the ability also makes sapphics fall in love with him, a man, who isn't even close to being butch, fall in love with him too, which is kinda gross lol)

the only fun parts of the reboot of the story so far is the reimagining of the seiya and ikki rivalry as more of a bugs bunny and daffy duck situation (a very galaxy-brained but clearly not canon-compliant take on their rivalry. doesn't stop from making me love it though), women having more agency (when mike's not around lol), and the use of pizza tower as a new addition because peppino's pretty bang on characterization-wise so far and he's been frequently enjoyable as a character for the Most Part, as there's the One Misstep for the Crossover Mother of his OC Child because the whole 'don't age up children and ship them' discourse which taints the fic's version of peppino Slightly.

it's obvious the writers care a lot about representation but hm. there's a lot of woman and sapphic hate permanating this fic saga and its reboot (the reboot significantly less so but it still Stinks of it Slightly) and i think that's what ruins it.

[sudokufag]

Magical Things that happened at pride this weekend:

>lots and lots of people complimenting the shirt I made for my buddy

>two girls in the parking lot adjusting each other's outfits for way longer than they needed too making a ton of eye contact

>seeing an old friend from highschool who was struggling with her sexuality last time we spoke now walking with a giant lesbian flag on her shoulder

>passing an older straight faced man dressed completely ordinarily but wearing a shirt that says "good boys get treats"

>lots of furries keeping cool by putting ice packs in their mouths (never seen so many fursuiters in Arkansas before!!)

>I signed a ceasefire petition and they gave me a local socialist newspaper!! How cool!!!

>so. Many. Chappell Roans.

>a pup excitedly tipping a drag king, the king kissing his nose, and the pup doing a happy dance as he ran away from the stage

>beautiful drag queen (at the same show) dropped her coat right in front of me as I went to tip her 🫣

>anti-gay Christian protesters getting drowned out by a girl voguing infront of them with a crowd cheering her on

>the parade opening with two elderly men carrying a banner who appeared to be a couple

>a person in the parade running right up to me to give me a hand made trans pride bracelet!!!

>LARPers at the parade having a dramatic sword fight in front of us (the guy with a giant bisexual sword won btw)

>a free Palestine/no pride in genocide section at the end of the pride parade with the crowd cheering louder than they did with any other part (and no zionist company sponsors at the parade as far as I can tell!!)

> my mom referring to me with he/him pronouns FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!!!!

[christmassavestheyear]

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music ✮ one direction, conan gray, olivia rodrigo, twenty one pilots, maddie zahm, caity baser, dylan gossett, sabrina carpenter, alexander black, megan moroney, xana, kelsea ballerini, noah kahan, ed sheeran, billie eilish, five seconds of summer, cavetown, maisie peters, finneas, taylor swift, queen, hozier, girl in red, luke combs, phoebe bridgers, gracie abrams, miley cyrus, dean lewis, sixpence none the richer, morgan wallen, birdy, renée rapp, the beatles, abba, robbie williams, ashe, blackbear, dyl dion, chappell roan, luke combs

books ✮ little women, red white and royal blue, osemanverse, jane doe and the cradle of all worlds, nevermoor, boyfriend material and husband material, afterlove, the meaning of birds, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, i kissed shara wheeler, the fault in our stars, they both die at the end, song of achilles, girl in pieces, you'd be home now, a semi-definitive list of worst nightmares

musicals ✮ come from away, hamilton, in the heights, high school musical, hsmtmts, dear evan hansen, tick tick boom, wicked, disney musicals<3, the greatest showman, the addams family musical, matilda, tina: the tina turner musical, mary poppins + returns, six, miss saigon, rocky horror, west side story, funny girl, chicago. moulin rouge, grease

movies & tv ✮ little women (2019), barbie (2023), dunkirk, don't worry darling, my policeman, julie and the phantoms, rwrb, heartstopper, 9-1-1 (and lone star), doctor who, clouds, love simon and love victor, station 19, greys anatomy, b99

my characters ✮ amy march, nina rosario, henry fox-stuart, nick nelson, christopher eccleston's doctor, achilles, ezra squall, regulus black, augustus waters, john laurens, evan buckley, carlos reyes, allen from barbie.

my ships ✮ larry stylinson, firstprince, tarlos, tevan, nick&charlie, wolfstar, jegulus, amy&laurie, morrigan&cadence, hamburr, laurette, hobama<3, eddie diaz with literally anyone (but especially josh russo)

goals and dreams ✮ i want to study abroad, publish my writing, adopt or foster kids, travel to every continent someday, volunteer with lgbt+ homeless/support shelters/charities, attend 4/5 1d boys' concerts, learn at least two languages

my sideblogs ✮ my poetry blog: @thelostboyschapter 1d lyric keywords: @onedirectionandblank

[pashterlengkap]

GOP candidate for governor called teachers “demons” for teaching about “filthy” LGBTQ+ people

A 2021 video shows staunchly anti-LGBTQ+ GOP candidate Mark Robinson referring to LGBTQ+ people as “filthy” and calling teachers who speak to students about LGBTQ+ issues “demons.” Robinson – the Republican nominee for North Carolina governor and the state’s current lieutenant governor – was reportedly speaking at a 2021 Independence Day event held by Conservative Coalition North Carolina. Related: Man parades rainbow-painted donkey through GOP campaign rally in bizarre attack on trans people “I thought to myself, that is not a rainbow unicorn.” “I’m a little more concerned with what’s going on in our classrooms when you have these demons in there trying to teach our children about all this filthy homosexuality and transgenderism, trying to force it down their throats,” Robinson said, adding that kids are also being taught to “hate America.” Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Daily * Weekly * Good News * He also made the contradictory statement that “you have the right to be transgender, but you cannot transcend God’s creation and you are not playing on the girl’s team if you’re a man.” “When did freedom become insanity?” he asked, emphasizing his belief that there are two genders: “Two. Count them. Two. There’s two sets of DNA, male and female. That’s it.” In the same speech, he blasted the notion that racism is a problem in America, saying, “We’ve reached a point in this nation where people don’t care what you look like anymore.” He also repeatedly praised Donald Trump and said America needs to “wake up” and “tell those socialist b****rds who want to destroy this nation, ‘You will not do it on my watch, you will not do it now, you will not do it ever.” Donald Trump recently endorsed Robinson, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.” This is despite the fact that Robinson once called the Civil Rights Movement a communist plot to “subvert capitalism” and “to subvert free choice.” He was speaking on a podcast in 2018 and said Black protestors and white allies who had protested racist laws by eating at a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter during a July 1960 protest in Greensboro, North Carolina were “ridiculous” and wrongly trying to pull “the rug out from underneath capitalism and free choice and the free market.” As the November election looms closer, a spotlight has been cast on Robinson’s long history of inflammatory comments. In March 2023, Robinson declared that God created him to battle against LGBTQ+ rights and added, “Makes me sick every time I see it — a church that flies that rainbow flag, which is a direct spit in the face of God almighty.” In 2017, he wrote on Facebook, “You CAN NOT love God and support the homosexual agenda.” In 2021, Robinson compared LGBTQ+ people to cow dung and claimed straight people are superior to gay people due to their ability to procreate. In the same sermon, he declared there are only two genders and disparaged trans people’s bodies: “I don’t care how much you cut yourself up, drug yourself up and dress yourself up, you still either one of two things — you either a man or a woman.” He also said people who support events like Drag Queen Story Hour do so because they desire to molest children. He has previously proclaimed that being gay is a step before pedophilia, that former First Lady Michelle Obama is secretly a trans woman, and that trans-affirming people are “devil-worshipping child molesters.” He also condemned gay people as an “abominable sin” in response to the 2016 Pulse massacre. Robinson created an education task force to investigate and remove LGBTQ+ literature from public schools, as well as report instances of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools. Teachers’ names, employers, and information were released unredacted in the report, yet many of the… http://dlvr.it/T4jKbl

[redhairandpronouns]

ok first off the second reblog is hilarious. it is not in fact narcissistic to pat yourself on the back for words, it's annoying and self-centered. narcissists are people with npd. casual ableism aside,

everyday Existing is not legal shit. yes the difference matters when it comes to that, in some cases, but a transphobe will call a trans woman, a drag queen, and a gnc person all trannies. saying "well actually there are differences between these labels" isn't gonna get you an apology. the distinction matters, but what i think should take priority is standing together so our brothers and sisters and siblings don't get fucking killed

we ARE all freaks anyway. and it's easier to knock down a boulder once it's split itself into pebbles. and furries and kinksters and punks are fighting for queer rights (including legally). even if i did happen to imply a completely allocishet person was queer, the point is these are the identities queerphobes are using to get their foot in the door.

some memes to help:

[ID: two comics. the first comic portrays a person with a beard, red hat, glasses, and white polo shirt shaking hands with a person with short blond hair wearing a shirt reading "LGB without the T" and holding up a rainbow sign reading, "GAYS AGAINST DRAG QUEENS". in the background there are silhouettes of people handcuffed and presumable being led away. the person on the left says, "We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people and drag queens! Thanks for your help!". the second person replies, "Happy to be of service!" the second panel is zoomed into the second person's face, and they ask, "So, who are we going after next?" the third panel is a close up of the first person's face, who simply stays smiling. in the fourth panel, the second character asks again, "I said who's next?" in the fifth panel, the first character's expression remains unchanged. in the sixth panel, the second person's expression has grown worried and asks "Who...". The first person's expression remains unchanged.

the second comic has an overall blue background. a person shaded red says, "i helped you round up all the other reds, will you accept me now?" to their right is a police officer with a stern expression, shaded in blue. the second panel is a closeup of the police officer, smiling and saying "thanks for being one of the good ones." while shaking red's hand. the third panel is a close up of the cop loading a gun, with a small "click" sound. in the fourth panel it zooms out to see the cop shooting the red in the head, and they fall back into a deep pit of other red bodies. the art is credited @ breadpanes. End ID]

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. - Martin Niemöller

THIS is what my post is about. stand together or die alone. of you can't understand that, that's your loss and i hope you feel better soon. i think this is the last time i'm gonna keep arguing with your particular brick wall.

was thinking about infighting and like. they all see us the same. from the wildest queerest fagdyke to a cis gay guy. we are the same to them. the weird queers are not like. ruining your precious community. we're a part of it

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.5 (before 1940)

63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville. 1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many. 1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother, Berenguer Ramon II. 1408 – Seeking to resubjugate Muscovy, Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself. 1456 – The first of two earthquakes measuring Mw  7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people. 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany. 1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from the country. 1560 – Thirteen-year-old Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici as regent. 1578 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan, raids Valparaiso. 1649 – The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) is founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger. 1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. 1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale. 1770 – 29th Regiment of Foot privates Hugh Montgomery and Matthew Kilroy are found guilty for the manslaughter of Crispus Attucks and Samuel Gray respectively in the Boston Massacre. 1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary. 1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives. 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate. 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. 1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain. 1895 – New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert. 1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica. 1919 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Polonsky conspiracy is suppressed and its participants are executed by the Kontrrazvedka. 1921 – The Football Association bans women's football in England from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years. 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City. 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.

[tampire]

My Drag Is Valid feat. Hollow Eve and Disasterina (x)

[vaspider]

Oh but their story is so much more than that. The two of them were deeply, deeply in love with one another. Charlotte met Toni and introduced her to Magnus Hirschfeld, who helped her obtain her surgeries. They lived together as wives, moved around together when they were notified that they were 'under observation' because Toni had been a member of the Socialist USPD. Charlotte worked as a translator and Toni painted pictures for spa guests in one location, but they had to report into the police regularly due to their 'special status' so they returned to Prague.

During the rise of the Nazis Party, Toni made the decision to convert to Judaism, in part for Charlotte and under Charlotte's tutelage, which, honestly, may we all be loved so very much as that. In 1942, Charlotte was arrested for being a Jew and was to be sent to a camp. However, Toni ran to the American embassy and notified them that an American Jew had been arrested. Charlotte was saved from the death camps and deported to the US.

Toni could not follow, and the two never saw one another again. Toni survived the war and lived in East Germany -- they corresponded but Toni could not come to the US and, as a Jew, Charlotte was hesitant to return to Germany, to put it mildly. Charlotte taught diction and acted Off-Broadway, and was known as "the Queen of Brooklyn Heights Promenade." Charlotte died in 1963 at age 72, while Toni passed in 1961, when she was 80 years old.

As a side note for younger trans people: Charlotte was 38 when she had her GCS, and Toni was 51. You're not 'too old' to start transitioning.

Charlotte Charlaque (left) & Toni Ebel, two of the first trans women to undergo gender affirming surgery.

[imethimwheniwasavirgin]

Radical Feminist Reading Masterpost

This is a list of books I want to read on the subject of radical feminism. It’s definitely a long journey since many of these books can be difficult to make it through, but I wanted to share this list for anyone else interested.

Let me know if there are any broken links.

Abortion and Pornography: the Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality (by Twiss Butler)

A Collection of Essays on Feminism and Sexism in the Anarchist Movement

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late 20th Century (by Donna Haraway)

A Deafening Silence: Hidden Violence Against Women and Children (by Patrizia Romito)

A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (by Chimamanda Ngozi Achidie)

A Voice from the South (by Anna Julia Cooper) 

All About Love (by bell hooks)

African Gender Studies (edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi)

African Women & Feminism (by Oyeronke Oyewumi)

Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (by Tavia Nyong’o)

Against Our Will: Men, Women, Rape (by Susan Brownmiller)

Ain’t I a Woman (by bell hooks)

A Mercy (by Toni Morrison)

Americanah (by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

An American Marriage (by Tayari Jones)

An Autobiography (by Angela Davis)

An Autobiography (by Assata Shakur)

Ancient Hatred and Its Contemporary Manifestation: the Torture of Lesbians (by Susan Hawthorne)

An End to the Neglect of the Negro Woman (by Claudia Jones)

Angela Davis: a Biography (by Angela Davis)

Anonymous is a Woman: A Global Chronicle of Gender Inequality (by Nina Ansary)

An Orchestra of Minorities (by Chigozie Obioma)

Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution (by Sheila Jeffreys)

Are Prisons Obsolete? (by Angela Davis)

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (by T.V. Reed)

Assata Shakur (by Assata Shakur)

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain (by Abby Norman)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (by Mary Wollstonecraft)

Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women (by Susan Faludi)

Bad Feminist (by Roxanne Gay)

Beauty and Misogryny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (by Sheila Jeffreys)

The Beauty Myth (by Naomi Wolf)

Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (edited with John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin)

Being Lolita (by Alisson Wood)

The Bell Jar (by Sylvia Plath)

Beloved (by Toni Morrison)

Bewitching: Recalling the Archimagica Powers of Women (by Mary Daly)

Beyond Beautiful (by Anuschka Rees)

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation (by Mary Day)

Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation (by Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar)

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Conscioussness, and the Politics of Empowerment (by Patricia Hill Collins)

Black Feminist Voices in Politics (by Evelyn M. Simien)

Black Looks: Race and Representation (by bell hooks)

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (by C. Riley Snorton)

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History (by E. Patrick Johnson)

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson)

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (by Patricia Hill Collins)

The Black Unicorn (by Audre Lorde)

The Bluest Eye (by Toni Morrison)

The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women’s Rights in America (by Debran Rowland)

Breaking Out Of The "Man Box" (by Tony Porter)

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua)

Bringing Together Feminist Theory and Practice: A Collective Interview

Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (by Marlon M. Bailey)

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (by Sylvia Federici)

The Chalice and the Blade (by Diane Eisler)

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (by Peggy Orenstein)

Colonialism and Homosexuality (Robert Aldrich)

Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (edited by Bushra Rehman and Daisy Hernadez)

The Colour Purple (by Alice Walker)

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Combatting Cult Mind Control (by Steven Hassan

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Erasure (by Adrienne Rich)

Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution (by Evelina Giobbe)

Consciousness Raising: A Radical Weapon (by Kathie Sarachild)

The Creation of Patriarchy (by Gerda Lerner)

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody (by James Lindsay)

Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (by Anne Summers)

Daring Greatly (by Brené Brown)

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975 (by Alice Echols)

Dear Ijeawele (by Chimamanda Ngozi Achidie)

Delusions of Gender (by Cordelia Fine)

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (by Alicia Gaspar De Alba)

Desert Flower (by Waris Dirie)

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (by Carol F. Karlsen)

The Dialect of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution (by Shulamith Firestone)

Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History (by Eileen O’Neill)

The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture (by Bonnie J Morris)

Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-made Environment (by Leslie Kanes Weisman)

Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy (by Grace Chang)

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (by Maya Dusenbery)

Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge to Transgenderism (by Janice Raymond)

Drag = Blackface (by Kelly Kleiman)

Epistemology of the Closet (by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick)

Erotic Island: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean (by London K. Gill)

The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms (by Carla Kaplan)

Everyday Male Chauvinism: Intimate Partner Violence Which is Not Called Violence (by Luis Bonino and Peter Szil, with contribution from Gabor Kuszing)

The Evolutionary Origins of Patriarchy (by Barbara Smuts)

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley)

Fasting Girls: A History of Anorexia Nervosa (by Joan Jacobs Brumberg)

Fat is a Feminist Issue (by Susie Orbach)

Father-Daughter Incest (by Judith Lewis Herman)

Female Chauvinist Pigs (by Ariel Levy)

The Feminine Mystique (by Betty Friedan)

Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression (by Sandra Lee Martky)

Feminism Confronts Technology (Judy Wajcman)

Feminism is for Everybody (by bell hooks)

Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (by Catherine A. MacKinnon)

Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (by Chandra Mohanty)

Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (editors Robbin Crabtree, David Sapp, and Adela Licona, 2009)

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation (by Bonnie J. Morris and D.M. Withers)

The Fifth Season (by N.K. Jemisin)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (by Hallie Rubenhold)

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery (by Virginia Blum)

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women (by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English)

Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America (by Evelyn Nakano Glenn)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (by Angela Davis)

Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation (by Pamela Allen)

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (by Marina Warner)

From Fashion to Politics: Hadassah and Jewish American Women and the Post World War II Era (by Shirli Brautbar)

Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice (by Alice Dreger)

Gay Shame (edited with Valerie Traub)

Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities (edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi)

Gender Trouble (by Judith Butler)

The Girl With the Louding Voice (by Abi Daré)

Girl, Woman, Other (by Bernadine Evaristo)

Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild)

Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation (by Sonia Johnson)

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (by Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor)

Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (by Mary Daly)

Hands, Tools, and Weapons (by Paola Tabet)

Heterosexualism and the Colonial Modern Gender System (by Maria Lugones)

The History of Patriarchy (by Gerda Lerner)

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (by Barbara Smith)

How Porn Fuels Sex Trafficking

How to Suppress Women’s Writing (by Joanna Russ)

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

Hunger Makes Me (by Jess Zimmerman)

The Husband Stitch (by Carmen Maria Machado)

I Am Your Sister (by Audre Lorde)

The Icarus Girl (by Helen Oyeyemi)

The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers (by Frank Cioffi)

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (by Anne McClintock)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave GIrl (by Harriet Jacobs)

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade (by Sheila Jeffreys)

In Harm’s Way: the Pornography Civil Rights Hearing (by Catherine A MacKinnon et Andrea Dworkin)

In Our Time (by Susan Brownmiller)

Intercourse (by Andrea Dworkin)

The Invention of Women: Making African Sense of Western Gender DIscourse (by Oyeronke Oyewumi)

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (by Caroline Criado Perez)

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (by Abigail Shrier)

Is Art Creating Patriarchy or is Patriarchy Creating Art? (By Mary Daly)

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray (by Rosalind Rosenberg)

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (by Angela Nagle)

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (by Dorothy Roberts)

Kindred  (by Octavia E. Butler)

Lactivism (by Courtney Jung)

Ladyparts (by Deborah Copaken)

Learning From the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought (by Patricia Hill Collins)

The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (edited with Henry Abelove and Michele Aina Barale)

The Lesbian Heresy (by Sheila Jeffreys)

Letters From a Warzone (by Andrea Dworkin)

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism (by Catherine MacKinnon)

Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment (by Susanne Kappeler)

Life and Death (by Andrea Dworkin)

The Light of the World (by Elizabeth Alexander)

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organization 1968-1980 (by Kimberly Springer)

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (by Imani Perry)

Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism (by Barbara Macdonald, with Cynthia Rich)

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (by Saidiya Hartman)

Love and Politics: Radical Feminist and Lesbian Theories (by Carol Anne Douglas)

Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Male Violence, and Women’s Lives (by Dee Graham)

The Madwoman in the Attic (by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar)

The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (by Mary Romero)

The Many Faces of Backlash (by Florence Rush)

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality , Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color (by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw)

Marx and Ghandi Were Liberals (by Andrea Dworkin)

Medical Apartheid (by Harriet Washington)

Medieval Households (by David Herlihy)

Men Who Hate Women (by Laura Bates)

Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don’t Know Why (by Susan Forward

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches Anything (by Deborah Schoeberlein and Suki Sheth)

Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, c. 1945-2000 (by Angela Davis)

More Work for Mother (by Ruth Schwarz Cowan)

Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment (by Pamela Sparr)

My Sister, the Serial Killer (by Oyinkan Braithwaite)

Natural Liberty (by the Sage Femme Collective)

The New Reproductive Technologies (by Gena Corea)

No Angel in the Classroom (by Berenice Malka Fisher)

Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls (by Carrie Goldberg)

NW (by Zadie Smith)

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (by Adrienne Rich)

Off Our Backs: The Feminist Newsjournal Issue on Mary Daly

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (by Grant Kester)

Only Words (by Catherine MacKinnon)

Origins of the Family, Private Property, and State (by Friedrich Engels)

Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (by Andrea Dworkin)

Outlaw Women: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 (by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World (by Lundall Gordon)

Paid For: My Journey Through Prositution (by Rachel Moran)

Paradise (by Toni Morrison)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (by Paulo Freire)

Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equality (by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf)

The Pimping of Prostitution (by Julie Bindel)

Pleasure Activism (by Adrienne Maree Brown)

Plucked (by Rebecca M. Herzig)

Points Against Postmodernism (by Catherine MacKinnon)

The Politics of Women’s Studies: Testimony from Thirty Founding Mothers (edited by Florence How)

The Porn Industry's Dark Secrets

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (by Gail Dines)

Pornography: Men Possessing Women (by Andrea Dworkin)

Post-Mortems: Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in Victorian Culture (by Valerie Messen)

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome America’s (by Joy Degruy)

The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard)

Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries (by Melissa Farley, Ann Cotton, Jacqueline Lynne, Sybille Zumbeck, Frida Spiwak, Maria E. Reyes, Dinorah Alvarez, and Ufuk Sezgin)

Queenie (by Candice Carty-Williams)

Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (by Margaret L. Andersen)

Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights (by Angela Davis) 

Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence (by Bonnie Burstow)

Rape and Sexual Power in Early America (by Sharon Block)

Red at the Bone (by Jacqueline Woodson)

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice (by John Stoltenberg)

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Dr Orna Donath (by Dr Orna Donath)

Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, (edited by Catherine M. Orr, Ann Braithwaite, and Diane Lichtenstein)

The Right to Sex (by Amia Srinivasan)

Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females (by Andrea Dworkin)

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (by Elizabeth Rush)

The Robber Bride (by Margaret Atwood)

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (by Paula Gunn Allen)

The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression: A Marxist View (by Bob McCubbin; link)

Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation (an interview with Audre Lorde by Susan Leigh Star)

Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo: A Novel (by Ntozake Shange)

Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Making (by Mary Midgley)

SCUM Manifesto (by Valerie Solanas)

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (by Carolyn Gage)

The Second Sex (by Simone de Beauvoir)

Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism (by Nancie Caraway)

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement (by Sally G. McMillen)

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (by Alyson J. McGregor)

Sexology and Antifeminism (by Sheila Jeffreys)

Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States (by Janice G. Raymond & Donna M. Hughes)

The Sexualized Body and the Medicalized Authority of Pornography (by Heather Brunskell-Evans)

Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (by Jeffrey Q. McCune)

Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse (by Valerie Heller)

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (edited by Dorchen Leidhodt and Janice G. Raymond)

Sexual Politics (by Kate Millett)

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (by Carl Zimmer)

The Silent Patient (by Alex Michaelids)

Sinister Wisdom: A Gathering of Spirit (by North American Indian Women’s Issue)

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (by Melissa V. Harris-Perry)

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (by Robin Morgan)

Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum: The Practice of Freedom (editors Thandeka K. Chapman and Nikola Hobbel)

Sold: A Story of Modern-Day Slavery (by Sana Muhsen)

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America and Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (by Laura Shapiro)

Sophia Tolstoy’s diary

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (by Toni Morrison)

The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880–1930 (by Sheila Jeffreys)

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (by Alexis Pauline Gumbs)

Spiritual Midwifery (by Ina May Gaskin)

Stone Butch Blues (by Leslie Feinberg)

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (by Laura Kaplan)

The Subjection of Women (by Harriet Taylor)

The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy (by Maria Mies and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen)

Sula (by Toni Morrison)

Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation (by Renate Klein)

Susan B Anthony’s Daybook

Taking Charge of Your Fertility (by Toni Weschler)

Taking Our Eyes Off of the Guys (by Sonia Johnson)

Tales of the Lavender Menace: a Memoir of Liberation (by Karla Jay)

Teaching transformation: transcultural classroom dialogues (by AnaLouise Keating)

Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black DIaspora (by Nadia Ellis)

Terrorizing women: Femicide in the Americas (by Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (by Zora Neale Hurston)

Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (by Marquise Bey)

They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers)

Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley)

Things Fall Apart (by Chinua Achebe)

Towards a Feminist Theory of the State (by Catherine MacKinnon)

The Transexual Empire (by Janice Raymond)

Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (by Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff)

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (by Judith Herman)

The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement (by Winifred Breines)

Truth About Porn (by Karen Countryman-Roswurm)

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (by Charlene A. Carruthers)

Unpacking Gender Dysphoria: A How-To Guide

Unpacking Queer Politics (by Sheila Jeffreys)

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution (by Laurie Penny)

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World (by Elinor Cleghorn)

The Use of Erotic as Power (by Audre Lorde)

The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine (by Jennifer Gunter)

The Vagina Monologues (by Eve Ensler)

Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn (by Shelley Lubben)

Varat Och Varan: Prostitution, Surrogatmodraskap Och Den Delade Manniskan (by Kajsa Ekis Ekman)

Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) (by Linda Alcoff)

The Visual Culture Reader, 2nd edition, (edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff)

Voices of African American Women in Prison (by Paula C. Johnson)

Virginia Woolf: the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work (by Louise A. DeSalvo)

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 (by Julio Capo Jr.)

We Should All Be Feminists (by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (by Helen Oyeyemi)

Where the Wild Ladies Are (by Aoko Matsuda)

White Fragility

White Teeth (by Zadie Smith)

Who Cooked the Last Supper: A Women’s History of the World (by Rosalind Miles)

The Whole Woman (by Germaine Greer)

Who Look At Me: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body (Durrell Callier and Damonique C. Hill)

Why a Materialist Feminism is (Still) Possible and Necessary (by Stevi Jackson)

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (by Lundy Bancroft)

Why Women Are Blamed For Everything (by Dr Jessica Taylor)

Wide Sargasso Sea (by Jean Rhys)

Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution (by Sonia Johnson)

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (by Masih Alinejad)

Witch (by Lisa Lister)

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A history of Women Healers (by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English)

Woman on the Edge of Time (by Marge Piercy)

Women and Civil Liberties (by Kathleen A. Lahey)

Women and their Bodies (by Boston Women’s Health Collective)

Women and War (by Jean Bethke Elshtain)

Women as a Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realities (by Mary Beard)

Woman Hating (by Andrea Dworkin)

Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere (by Oyeronke Olajubu)

The Women of Brewster Place (by Gloria Naylor)

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (by Clarrissa Pinkola Estes)

Women, Race, and Class (by Angela Davis)

Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle (by Thomas Sankara)

The Women’s Room (by Marilyn French)

Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politcs (edited by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Agatha Beins)

Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Secual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (by Afsaneh Najmabadi)

The World We Have Lost (by Peter Laslett)

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (edited by Cherie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua)

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (by bell hooks)

Zami Sister Outsider Undersong (by Audre Lorde)

[putris-et-mulier]

I got a really cool question about how pride can be more inclusive of disabled people

1. Just remember us

When you make content remember to add disabled people to the conversation. Add "disabled people" when you are naming marginalized communities but also consider how ableism affects whatever the topic is

Don't feel bad about having a checklist. "Did I include BIPOC? APISA? Trans? Non-binary? Intersex? Disabled?" Etc.

2. Remember queer and disabled aren't mutually exclusive

If you are talking about queer history remember that disabled people are part of it. People love learning that Helen Keller was a lesbian and socialist radical

3. Be accessible

3a. On the Internet

Include basic trigger warnings. If you are sure if flashing lights or pictures are intense enough to trigger seizures then err on the side of caution

If you are making a website make sure it can be read by software for the vision impaired, this can be as simple as putting brief descriptions on photos and remembering to spell things clearly

Don't censor text and subtitles

3b. At live events

Have handicap parking

Have accessible bathrooms

Have handicap seating with companions seats (meaning spaces for wheelchairs with regular seats so you are not segregating the audience anymore then you need to and people can sit with their family/friends/partners)

Have free and readily available seats in the common areas

Have sign language interpreters (a lot of people will volunteer if you ask)

Have a events on pavement

Have shade

Space things enough for wheelchairs/walkers/etc. to fit through

There are a million things you can be mindful of but if you just try to meet ADA standards you will already be doing better than most people

4. Remember the fun stuff

Disabled speakers and performers exist, even drag kings/queens

Merchandise can include accessible symbols (diversify and make a little bit more money for yourself while being woke)

Fun promotions for things like showing vaccination cards (like a free drink or flags) to promote accessibility

5. Remember you can just Google "pride month" and "disabled people" for lots of information and suggestions

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Solidarity with Cuba, trans people at Queens Pride

By Melinda Butterfield

Thousands of people gathered in the multinational immigrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York, for the 25th Queens Pride Parade June 5.

Supporters of the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha marched with the NY-NJ Cuba Si Coalition contingent. The response from those lining the streets was overwhelmingly positive, with many chanting “Viva Cuba!” or running up to take photos with the coalition’s banner.

[salsa-and-light]

"The problem is that the terms 'trans' and 'TERF' have been so stretched as to lose all meaning."

I wouldn't go that far, but I'll hear you out.

"I don't wonder for a moment why some trans people now call themselves 'transsexual', so as to put space between themselves and the Gender Ideology crowd."

Yes, transmedicalists or truscum or whatever the nom de jour is.

To my knowledge, they're generally considered to be.. if not prejudiced then ignorant and exclusionary.

They're not some token that you can use to support your own opinions.

"Only a few years ago, being trans meant something very specific that affected a tiny number of people."

It still "affects" very few people.

And it still does mean something very specific.

The number of trans people has not suddenly exponentially grown according to any data that I've ever seen.

You're probably just reacting to the subjective experience of there seeming to be more trans people.. because you're now seeing more trans people.

..

And also.. trans people have always been a fairly diverse bunch, especially if you include trans people from any pre-20th century culture.

The line has always been blurry to some extent.

"TERF meant exactly what it says on the tin. Trans Exclusionary Rad Fem."

Yeah.. but "NAZI" means a national socialist, but the connotation is relevant.

Not that being a transphobic radical feminist was all that great of a starting point.

"Most of us probably didn't even notice trans people,"

Well.. if you created an ideology to exclude them then I have to assume that you noticed.

"because looking and sounding as much like the sex they were living as was part of the deal."

It wasn't "part of the deal" this was not a deal. What you're describing is an ultimatum.

Conform or else.

That was the condition that many trans people had to meet in order to be safe in society, but that was not ever a universal norm, nor should it be.

Trans people do not owe anyone gender conformity.

"As was adequate mental health care, to make sure that transition was what each person really needed."

Medical gatekeeping, yes, that is something that is very much still with us.

But even if it weren't. There's not really anybody to stop you from getting a face tattoo or any other radical plastic surgery.

Seeing as trans people are relatively rare.. why is there such a concern when plenty of other people do equally as extreme things with no supervision?

The only explanation that I can muster is that people are much more threatened by the flexibility of gender than they ever were by lizard men or people with black eyeballs.

"Gender Ideology took over, one dark day,"

I'm going to be honest with you, one drama queen to another, you being too dramatic.

What is "gender ideology"?

The idea that gender and sex are distinct?

That's not an ideology that's just a verifable anthropoligical reality.

The idea that you can change you gender presentation?

That's also not an ideology, just a practical reality.

I really don't know what people mean when they say "gender ideology", but it sounds like you're just frightened and concerned over atypical gender presentation. Which, while understandable, is not a valid social or political concern

"ignoring the reality of biological sex"

Who is ignoring biological sex?

Don't you think that people undergoing a gender transition are the most aware of their biological sex and how it effects their body and presentation⸮

Don't you think that they're only able to change it because they've paid attention to it⸮

"and saying that being man or woman is purely a subjective thing."

Well, it's not entirely subjective; but it is malleable.

I don't consider myself trans, but people have been questing my gender for years.

Especially when we consider modern medical technology, pretending that everything is beyond our control is a bit delusional.

"Which is utter rubbish!"

It is.. but also no one actually says that, it's a straw man, you're repeating it because it's ridiculous.

"I listen to plenty of trans people. But they're those who speak rationally about what they are, what they're not and why they live as they do.. It's based very firmly in biological reality."

Uh huh.. meaning..

"Since at least the 1980s we've known that being a male man or a female woman is purely and simply WHAT we are."

No. No reputable study actually says that.

"A man can be masculine, feminine or androgynous as suits him. Because all that makes him a man is being male."

If you consider male and man synonymous, which many people do not.

"Man" is a gender term. It invokes a certain set of behaviors and norms.

That may one day change but that is the current reality.

Even transphobic people still regularly treat "man" as a social category which one can fall in or out of.

"So. When we had trans people in the past, we knew what was going on."

I don't believe that that's true. Most people still don't know what's going on, let's not rewrite history and act as if everyone was someone fine with it in the '80s.

"A male living as a woman knew that looking and sounding as female as possible was key to being accepted as a woman."

Well that's true, but it doesn't mean that it should be.

"Because femaleness is the essence of womanhood."

Well that's a matter of opinion isn't it.

Actually no- that's just incorrect.

I know that TERFs are all about excluding trans people but maybe you should talk to a Butch, please- it would probably do you some good.

What a "woman" is varies depending on time and place, and it is a social category which has changed over time.

As it is likely to do again.

"Worse yet, we're confusing children."

I find it very disingenuous when people pretend to care about "confusing children".

Children are frequently confused, that's "part of the deal" as it were.

In my experience most people can't even seem to muster up concern when children are confused about things that they actually need to know; things that cause genuine physical or emotional harm.

And as an educator, if I was supposed to never confuse a child, then I would not be able to do my job/

What people usually mean when they fret about "children being confused" is that children aren't coming to the same conclusions that they are.

This same talking point was brought up about school integration(we can't have children thinking that it's okay to socialize across racial lines), it was brought up when gay people first started appearing in media(we can't let children think that that "lifestyle" is acceptable) and now we're hearing it about trans people.

Not even trans people in media or in schools, just trans people.. existing.

If the boundaries of male and female are really so impermeable, and if man and woman really are natural biological categories, then it shouldn't matter if they're confused as children or not, they'll figure it out eventually.

I didn't know what race I was as a child, in fact I had the exactly incorrect idea of what my race was.

But some part of you believes that if you don't keep this from children then they won't come to your conclusions.

That doesn't mean that you're wrong, necessarily, but it does mean that you have next to no faith in the correctness of your opinions.

"Identity issues can mean many more things than gender dysphoria and yet vulnerable young people are pushed into gender transition,"

Who is doing this? And for what motivation?

Is there any documentation of this or and is there any logical reason why?

Or is this more like the "lizard men putting drugs in the water and altering the media to emasculate men" genre of theory.

Because if there's not evidence, then this fearmongering is irresponsible and unethical.

"Gender non conforming children are in no way a new thing. A boy can explore femininity or androgyny and still be a boy."

Preaching to the choir hon'

"A gender non conforming teen might be struggling with being gay or lesbian and needs help to learn how to embrace themselves as they are."

Sure, but some people might also be trans..

There are plenty of trans people who were originally completely heterosexual.. who are only gay by virtue of their transition.

Considering how concerned you are about heterosexual men transitioning to sexually assault women, this shouldn't be surprising to you.

I also don't care for the commodification of the experience of being a gender-non-conforming gay child so that you can dismiss the feelings and experiences of trans people.

"There may be a trauma or abuse that they need help to heal from. He/she may have Autism and needs help to learn how to navigate the world, with a brain function for which the world is not designed."

Yeah.. cool.. um.. you do realize that you sound like your garden variety homophobe right?

People can't just be trans, they have to have trauma.

It's the same line that homophobes use on Queer people who didn't have a "strong male role model".

That need to ""heal"" from whatever "made them this way"; "heal the mesculine/femenine within" or whatever crap.

"The issue of single sex spaces should not be pushed under the rug."

Okay.

Why not?

"A trans woman is NOT a potential predator for being male. And I'd argue the point with anyone thinking otherwise."

Well that's a pleasant surprise.

"BUT we do need to gatekeep who gets to enter women's spaces."

Okay. Why?

And what is your idea of "biological sex"?

Chromosomal sex?

And what about people who don't fit into the gender binary or don't have a typical chromosomal sex?

XXY, XXX and X0 are all extant types of Chromosomal sex and they're just a few of the types of intersex conditions that can exist.

There are also plenty of men who have XX chromosomes and plenty of women who have XY..

And even ignoring all that, what is it that makes your sex "biological"?

There are some trans people who have only ever gone through one puberty in their target gender. Their knowledge and experience of the opposite sex experience is as fuzzy and theoretical as yours is.

"First and Foremost, woman = adult human female. This is simply a fact."

No, that's an opinion.

If those two terms were truly equivalent then comparing them side by side would not convey any new information or any point.

You're playing a semantic trick.

Here you are trying to prove that trans women are not women because they are not chromosomal females.

If that was what being a woman was about.. then no one would be disagreeing.

But clearly, you and everyone else is arguing about this because being a woman means something more than having an extra leg on a chromosome.

"We don't need to find a definition of womanhood, because we've always had one."

Well that's not true.

Also.. speaking from a linguistic standpoint words mean whatever they are used to mean.

If people are referring to trans men as men, then trans men are included in what a "man" is.

That's how semantics work.

You can't put up a wall to block of language just because you have personal feelings about what a word should mean.

If you want to do that then you need to invent a term.

"Deciding who comes into women's spaces starts from there."

Says who?

And also, your understanding of what you're even talking about is limited by your language.

How are you going to establish your rules, let alone enforce them, when it's not clear what you're even talking about?

"A trans man is female too. But he may be more comfortable in men's spaces."

Uh-huh...

"A trans woman is a male. So we have to decide what constitutes being a trans woman with entry to women's spaces."

So do you think that trans women should be welcome in women's spaces or not?

Because it sounds a bit like you're treating "women's spaces" as these sacred shrines whereas you think that male spaces can be entered at the pleasure of anyone.

I don't personally care, but it sounds like you're bordering on sexism if nothing else.

"(A trans woman is not the same as a woman. She is male and living AS a woman, which is all well and good, as long as we know exactly and specifically what a woman is.)"

Well that's a fun hypothetical but most people don't know what a woman is as well as they think they do.

But let's suppose for arguments sake that there is a difference between a trans woman and a cis woman in the real of public spheres, and let's also assume that that that difference is relevant..

What is that difference and what does it change?

Can you actually pinpoint a universal relevant difference?

Any experience or trait that I can think of that might exist in a trans woman would also exist in a number of women.

"At one time it required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and time spent living as a woman, to get the certificate of gender recognition."

So?

Once upon a time women had to have their husbands permission to open a checking acount.

Personal freedom is usually considered a good thing.

"And isn’t that a good thing?"

Medical gatekeeping..

Not universally no it's not.

Like I said, personal freedom is usually considered a good thing.

"Isn’t that one way of sorting out who’s in this for real and who’s just 'playing’?"

What exactly do you envision when you say that someone is "playing"?

You can change your sex, but only if you're not having fun?

What‽

And more importantly, why does it matter?

We don't stand outside movie theaters, interviewing people to make sure that they're really sure that they want to see the movie.

We don't harangue teenagers when they make impactful financial decisions about their future careers and education. There's no gatekeeping on becoming an English major

We don't even question when people want their noses remade, their breasts repositioned, their bones stretched or their tongues split.

There are people in this world with black eyeballs, horns, piercings through every fold of their body.

There are also people who wear tabacco khacki cargo shorts, and no one stops them.

People assume the risks of their behaviors by choosing to do them.

I don't believe that you're honestly that concerned about trans people might make an ill-advised transition. I think you're really far more concerned with protecting some notion of gender that trans people contradict.

"Simply saying that womanhood means “I say I am, therefore I am” opens the door to potential disaster."

That disaster being?

This is your soapbox, tells us exactly what we should be concerned about.

This is an opportunity to exprress concerns, not ghost-story hour at the campfire. If understanding is your goal instead of fear, then act like it.

"Yes. It means that 100% genuine predatory men can and have used this excuse to get into women’s spaces,"

Well of course, the guard outside of every women's bathroom would only let someone come in with official documentation..

Not really right?

No matter how much gatekeeping their is, someone can still just lie.. and why would they even lie.. when there's no one there to stop them from going in the first place.

For as much as you say that you don't think that trans women are predators because they are male you seem awfully concerned that a male person being in a gender-segregated space has some immutable negative consequence.

I also notice that you're not worried about women entering men's bathrooms to hurt men..

So what's up with that huh?

Do you wanna' explore that a bit?

"with a ready supply of often vulnerable potential victims."

As opposed to every other place on God's green earth-

Come'on.

This idea that cis-male presenting people are going to hack the system to change their documents to enter a woman's bathroom just for access to women when they're the least likely to tolerate human proximity is wild.

A real predator has lot's of options that don't involve bureaucracies and which don't leave a paper trail.

Bars, clubs, parks, a fast food restaurant.. -any street.

any part of a pool, beach, wood or field.

Anywhere there are people a bad person could find somebody to hurt.

And being a masculine-presenting person in a woman's bathroom is not going to give them any advantages. The best case for a predator in that space is neutrality.

Because women don't trust people that look like men on the street, why would they trust them in a bathroom?

I had a drink spiked, it happened in a club, I've been the victim of multiple muggings and had a man chase me through the night that happened on residential roads, I had men try to kill me, that was on a city street. I have been groped, harangued, propositioned and sexually assaulted, not once has that ever happened in a bathroom, a changing room or even a pool or beach.

I was also hit by a truck- that obviously did not happen in a private sex-segregated space.

I'm not saying that bathrooms are inherently safe, I'm definitely not saying that they're some sacred place, but the idea that a changing room or a restroom is the ideal place to find victims is almost always out-of-touch paranoia.

America does not have many public spaces to begin with, but it's a fantasy to believe that people enter a locker room and then forget all their personal and cultural instincts.

"You may scoff at this. But just tell me. What is there to stop them?"

Alright

A) bathrooms/changing rooms etc. are actually some of the worst places to do something nefarious because people are hyper-vigilant there.

B) bathrooms have never been segregated by sex, they have been segregated by gender presentation. Butch women frequently encounter problems in women's bathrooms, many trans people do not.

C) social convention in America is that people do not touch strangers and very rarely approach or address strangers in bathrooms and changing rooms, a friendly hello is often treated with suspicion, anything actually dubious is going to cause a hyperfocus.

D) lesbians have been using women's bathrooms since time immemorial, bathrooms have never become a hotspot for lesbian sex

Actual male predators have just as much ability to enter a woman's bathroom now as they did a hundred years ago, they usually still don't.

Any law that officially allows or disallows it is not going to make any difference for as long as cultural norms around bathrooms stay what they are.

Note the assumption that all LGBT people automatically support each other.

Even though many TERFs/“Gender-critical feminists” are lesbians.

Also, many people specifically say that their issue is not with LGBT people, it’s with “degenerates” hiding behind a minority label.

Including some LGBT people who don’t want to get dragged down with the pervs.

Most of the people who talk about “degeneracy” will apply that label to straight, non-trans people too.

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i feel like as far as leftist Edelstans go, her rhetoric and actions just like, specifically attract certain types of performative leftists who don't understand how society and actual communal support works and have weird fantasies about staging a violent burn-it-all-down revolution without any regard for innocent (often marginalized) people that might be displaced or harmed in the process and think just because they're like, a lesbian or bisexual or something and know the word communism that makes them the authority on progressive politics, and it really shows how much they fetishize violence without understanding or putting any actual thought into how social change that actually helps people and uplifts the marginalized would work. with other Edelstans it seems like less of a commentary on things like that but specifically with people who tout her as someone bringing about some kind of leftist revolution that's the impression i get.

It comes from an extreme place of privilege. As a leftist myself I talked about this exact stuff with my irl friends, and takes like that come from very shallow and reactionary world views. Privileged (often white and at least middle to upper middle classed) people who make "teh cool leftist memes" on twitter won't be the first ones targeted by responses to violent revolution. It will be those thoroughly stuck in the working class, poor people, people of color, queer people in right wing communities-especially trans people-, the disabled, etc.

And even if that weren't the case irl, this does not apply to Edelgard. The church does not control the Empire. Therefore, she is not revolutionizing anyone. She is invading independent territory under the idea of "I'll save you from yourselves" whilst killing people who resist. That's one of the things that irl leftists worth their shit knows is heinous, stuff that we've seen through history and by all accounts is still happening in modern age.

The utter fact that a self proclaimed "leftist" can see what Edelgard does and still say she's some "Communist/Socialist Queen Taking Down the Establishment" when she gets so much privilege so easily and uses it to antagonize other nations? God, it reads like a fucking Onion Article.