I need transfeminism…
Because major anti-oppression organizations see fit to give transmisogynist feminists a platform to speak on anti-sexism.
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anarchist catnip
White queer vegan anarchist genderqueer femme married to a rad white queer genderqueer femme in unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver). I spend my days as a youth worker and my evenings reading feminist literature, crocheting anigurumi animals, listening to records, and completing a BA in Child and Youth Care.
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: RadFem 2012 is fucking disgusting. Obviously.
“RadFem 2012 is women only. We respect that discussion spaces are needed free from oppression and dis-empowerment, and we assert our right as women to organise a women only space. As Radical Feminists we recognise that patriarchy dominates personal and political spaces across the globe. In…
Hit & Miss: should non-transgender actors play transgender characters?
“Chloë Sevigny plays a transgender assassin in the new series. Paris Lees, who is trans, also went for the part”
…and she discusses it here.
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Regular readers of this blog will know i have no love for Chloe Sevigny. She is a transmisogynistic piece shit who takes obvious pleasure in appropriating the experiences of those she cares little for in exchange for cash.
I’m surprised Paris describes Hit & Miss as “a beautifully shot and nuanced drama” and says that “Sevigny does a fantastic job”.
I won’t be watching it, so i can’t judge (although the song in the promo is v catchy…).And i still think Sevigny stinks.
Activist prevents Israeli officer from arresting Palestinian child
During Sunday’s Jerusalem Day events, a Palestinian boy, perhaps 10 years old, was chased down an East Jerusalem street by a very angry officer of the Border Police. The boy tripped and fell, then picked himself up just as the Border Police officer reached him and tried to grab him. But a 22 year-old female Israeli activist prevented the boy’s arrest by throwing herself between the two, allowing the Palestinian boy to flee.
Jerusalem Day is meant to be a celebration of the city’s ‘reunification’ following Israel’s victory in the 1967 war. In practice, it is a day for Israeli nationalists, draped in flags, dancing in circles, singing and chanting (including the popular Israeli nationalist chant, ‘death to Arabs’) as they march through the streets of East Jerusalem and the Old City. Many of the Jewish demonstrators are bused in from right-wing yeshivas in Israel and the West Bank
This year, an Orthodox Jewish man grabbed the Palestinian flag from the hands of a 10 year-old boy and refused to return it. The boy, enraged, tried to prise it out of the Jewish man’s hands. A Border Police officer, seeing the struggle between a 10 year-old Palestinian boy and a fully grown Jewish man, chased the Palestinian boy rather than ordering the Jewish man to return the flag. Someone made a montage of the incident and posted it on Facebook, with commentary. Note the expression of rage in the Border Police officer’s eyes, as seen in the second photo.
In the end the boy got away, due to the intervention of a 22 year-old Israeli activist from Jerusalem named Sahar Vardi, who threw herself in front of the Border Police officer just as he was about to grab the child. Photojournalist Haim Schwarczenberg caught the incident.
The incident was also filmed and the clip posted on Youtube.
Source: +972mag
Takes a big man to point a gun like that at a ten-year-old.
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What a thoroughly well constructed academic rebuttal from fuckyeahgenderstudies!
Thanks, glad you like it.
I don’t need academic anything to know that if anyone has a boot on anyone’s neck it’s radfems on trans women, not the other fucking way around.
And if anyone needs to show anyone some fucking courtesy—again, that’s not the lookout of trans women.
So.
Shut the fuck up.
srs blog entry - t-minus 21 days
first day without estardiol and i am feeling fucked up. the only other time that i have been without estrogen in my system was when i had forgotten to take my pills until 6pm and just started crying. that was two years ago and, this time, i have tried to prepare myself. but right now i am feeling sketched out, like i am on the drugs that i quit doing over eight years ago. it is reminding me of why i started to take those drugs in the first place. how i was numbing myself from partner violence and attempted murder. how i lost myself in that relationship. i stopped being comfortable with my gender. i stopped wearing makeup and tried to dress more like a typical guy in order to save a relationship that had already self-destructed. and then i started to use in order to escape. i tricked myself into being one half of a gay male relationship that seemed so picture perfect although i was denying myself. it wasn’t until i had cleaned up that i was able to talk with people about gender. that i was able to reject the masculine roles and maleness that was expected of me. after i cleaned up, i started to find myself again.
