#zoe lancaster ;; texts

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[text] It's not going to work out. - zoe

[TEXT]: k then [TEXT]: don't say i didn't try [TEXT]: actually u know what. no. it's supposed to be a break but u keep making it into a Not Break because you keep fucking messaging me! i don't know what you want me to do, eric [TEXT]: i asked for space and you said you'd give me that and you're not. so 'it's not going to work out' my ass [TEXT]: maybe it would if you tried a bit harder ffs. if you're not gonna bother trying then pls just leave me be

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[ghelgheli]

i love your thoughtful posts and your patience in answering questions, was wondering if you had read transgender marxism and if so what did you think of it? ty!

thank you 💖💖

i put off answering this ask specifically to read transgender marxism. i hadn't realized, going in, that it was an anthology of essays rather than a book with a single thesis and thread. having worked through them all i have to say... i was underwhelmed.

a few of the essays (e.g. queer workerism against work and seizing the means) read as restatements, using assorted theoretical widgets, of the rote fact that aspiration toward class consciousness and proletarian revolution demands that we organize with a consciousness of transness. true! moving on.

a few others (trans work employment trajectories, notes from brazil, dialogue on deleuze) felt like re-presentations of known knowns and (sorry!) kind of pedestrian to work thru.

several of the later essays (and especially the afterword, which as far as i could tell misrepresented at least JGP in histories of the transgender child and possibly even metabolic rift) bored me near to tears and were difficult to distinguish from the wordplay of theorizing purely in the realm of ideas. i'm pretty sure i think "‘Why Are We Like This?’: The Primacy of Transsexuality" by xandra metcalfe is just wrong and plays into racialist constructions of the plasticity of the subject while trying to construct an image of liberation.

that said, I had some favourites that i would recommend:

Encounters in Lancaster by JN Hoad. i posted an excerpt of this one recently. the analogies to atomism, the conception of the aleatrix, the image of heterosexuality as the swerving stream that sweeps us up in its currents—i thought it was beautiful and sharp.

The Bridge Between Gender and Organising by Farah Thompson. also posted an excerpt of this one. just a good autobiographical account with clear upshots of one subjectivity of organizing for a Black trans woman

A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction by Nat Raha. this is a critical recommendation (i think there is a classic overuse/misapplication of "femme" thru the text) but the concept of "gender labour" (not gendered labour!) and of the transfeminine subject as being relegated to the lowest, informal and unwaged rung of performing this labour in service of gender maintenance is something that will stay with me

i also enjoyed Transgender and Disabled Bodies: Between Pain and the Imaginary by Zoe Belinsky. don't have too much to say about this one. here's an excerpt tho: "The organism creates her own foundation: she continually creates the being of her own species – the condition for creating the ‘I can’. She continually creates her capacity to create that species-being and the ‘I can’. She does this through the collective labour of organisms labouring in common, in order to coordinate themselves as sensory parts in a higher organism. The labourers must move from particularity to generality in order to establish the general horizon of transformative possibilities: the inorganic body – institutions, tools of culture – that support the creative capacity of the human body."

[weirdletter]

Embodying Fantastika, 8th, 9th and 10th August 2019, Lancaster University, UK. Info: embodyingfantastika.com.

‘Fantastika’ is an umbrella term that embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The sixth annual Fantastika conference will aim to define, challenge and debate conceptualisations of embodiment. We seek to investigate how various bodily forms are addressed or ruptured across a myriad of canvases, whether it be through (re)construction, transposition or indeed destabilisation. The conference will diagnose how Fantastika texts may extend upon or confront definitions of what it even means to be ‘embodied’, inviting researchers from fields such as posthumanism, medical humanities and other relevant fields to collaborate through productive discussion.

    Thursday 8th August 11.30–12.30 Registration and Lunch 12.30–14.30 Training #1: Building your digital profile / Academic CV writing 14.30–15.00 Break 15.00–17.00 Training #2: Theorising Embodiment with Fantastika Frameworks

    Friday 9th August 8.30–9.15 Welcome and Registration 9.15–10.30 Panel Session:     Panel 1a: Trans(forming) Bodies – Taylor Driggers, Thomas Moules, Felix Kawitzky     Panel 1b: Mechanising the Human – Molly Cobb, Zoe Wible, Courtney Kidd     Panel 1c: The Objects We Live With – Leonie Rowland, Marita Arvaniti, Kerry Dodd 10.45–12.00 Panel Session:     Panel 2a: Re(production) – Eleonora Rossi, Katie Stone, Sheryl Hamilton     Panel 2b: The Return of the Discarded – Lyu Guangzhao, Sarah Dodd, Chelsea Haith     Panel 2c: Un(healthy) Bodies – Chase Ledin, Mia Harrison, Virginia Conn 12.00–13.30 Lunch 13.30–15.00 Keynote #1: Professor Sherryl Vint – ‘Suspending Death, Reinventing Life’ 15.00–15.45 Break 15.45–17.00 Panel Session:     Panel 3a: Confronting Monstrosity – Shellie McMurdo, Megen de Bruin-Molé     Panel 3b: Posthuman Archives – Tom Kewin, Dan Byrne-Smith     Panel 3c: Clowns, Comedy and the Carnivalesque – Oliver Rendle, Valentino Paccosi

    Saturday 10th August 9.00–9.15 Registration 9.15–10.30 Panel Session:     Panel 4a: Weird Kin and the Cthuluscene  – Rob O'Connor, Beata Gubacsi, Steffen Hantke     Panel 4b: Patriarchal Subversions – Luke Turley, Miranda Corcoran, Jane Hartshorn     Panel 4c: Ballet Gothic – Karen Graham, Daisy Butcher, Kate Harvey 10.45–12.00 Panel Session     Panel 5a: Consumption, Appetites and Desires – Craig Ian Mann, Stephen Curtis, Ruth Booth     Panel 5b: Uncanny Spectres and the Divided Self – Daniel Pietersen, Joe Howsin     Panel 5c: Surgical Transplantations – Ahmet Yuce, Rachel Simpson 12.00–13.00 Lunch 13.00–14.30 Keynote #2: Dr Sara Wasson – ‘Slow Lacerations: Time in Tissue Transfer Fantastika’. 14.30–15.00 Break 15.00–16.00 Panel Session:     Panel 6a: Military Bodies – Chris Hussey, Mike Ryder     Panel 6b: Weird Ecologies – Michael Wheatley, Shelley Webster     Panel 6c: Augmentation and Prostheses – Chen Michaeli, Daniel Martin 16.15–17.00 Roundtable

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[text]: You ever ask yourself if birds see a bee and just go ‘wow a bee’? im high. - zoe (feeling generous haha)

[TEXT]: no because why the fuck would i be thinking about birds or bees? i'm not sure if birds even have any thoughts [TEXT]: you good? wtf have you been taking? should i be worried? [TEXT]: this isn't because of me, is it? please tell me you're not high because of me.

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[cursivebloodlines]

[ 📲• sms ] —maybe I can stay the night with you tomorrow (Zoe & Eric)

[ 📲• sms ] —maybe I can stay the night with you tomorrow (Eric)

[TEXT]: wut[TEXT]: DON’T TAKE THAT AS A NO PLEASE OGLSDGDG[TEXT]: i was idk...not expecting that.[TEXT]: it’s not a problem, i just need to clean up a bit first[TEXT]: sooooo the not-so-longwinded answer: yeah, maybe you can 😊

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[TEXT]: nvm, i’m sorry! [TEXT]: I understand, it’s too soon [TEXT]: yeah? you sure? you don’t have to say yes, I kinda put you on the spot [TEXT]: but if you’re sure, i’ll be there tomorrow w/ snacks and all, no need for cleaning 😊

[TEXT]: noo don’t be sorry! it’s okay :) [TEXT]: not at all. i mean its just like old times right but like...new times [TEXT]: well i already have so  😂 [TEXT]: besides if i really didn’t want you to then i would have already said no hehe [TEXT]: sounds great!!! but cleaning is an actual must. my place looks like a bomb’s hit it. i’m slacking dude!