since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here): juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Something I always notice about 'liberal' pro-natalists is that they want more births, but are averse to opposing coercive fertility limitations (eg in the criminal legal system). Liberal or conservative, it's entirely about *who* is allowed to, or forced to, have and raise their own children.

Talking about birth rate panic and referencing pro-natalist agendas without talking about eugenics and *who* these people think should be having kids is an interesting editorial decision.

i regret to inform you that you will simply never be able to craft a coherent vision of queer liberation without feminism, no matter how much you want to leave women out of your visions of a sexually free world

sexual violence is THE key operative mechanism of patriarchal enforcement & regulation of bodies, "penetrability," and sexuality/the heterosexual regime. queer oppression is more than thwarted desire. sexual freedom must begin with body autonomy & freedom from coercion

louise michel, an anarchist woman involved in the paris commune, was among the first (that we know of) to explicitly name the black flag as a symbol of anarchism. the story goes that she used a black petticoat as a flag in an 1883 demonstration of starving workers. i love that. a woman's underskirt

Feminism’s criticism of men’s violence against women & the sexualisation of men’s violence exists wholly apart from religious right criticism of porn, not least because elements of the right believe in dismantling protections against MVAWG

It’s a semantic point but choking is when the windpipe is obstructed from the inside, i.e. with a piece of food. What this is referring to is called strangulation.

Don’t for one second, not one millisecond, say babies drowning in Texas is justified because of their parent’s vote. Jesus Christ. Be better.

A modest proposal: Every major news organization should have a full-time trans writer on staff who gets to write about trans issues.

they do this and then they publish "research" about how these tribes are so sexually enlightened they see csa as harmless and normal, if only those feminist prudes hadn't ruined everyone's fun with bourgeois moralism we could be so enlightened too etc, then that research becomes standard citation

rinse and repeat forever until every single paper on history or anthropology of childhood has to begin with "childhood is a social construct so who can say if sexual abuse is really all that bad?" or else it won't get published

Child marriage is legal in 35 US states, but it's interesting how the laws don't map neatly onto a red state/blue state divide. California has no minimum marriage age, where Texas only allows 16 & 17 year olds to marry if they are emancipated, and there's bipartisan support to close that loophole.

"feminism is about choices and my choice is to be loudly acephobic, biphobic, and lesbophobic. I'm a sex positive ally by the way." - the average liberal cis straight woman I run into online (at least that's what it feels like lately)

"You can't have a litmus test for who can be a feminist" I can and I will. How are you going to dismantle patriarchy without being pro-abortion, anti-rape, and pro-LGBTQIA+, ESPECIALLY pro-trans rights in this environment?

On our latest Bust Magazine blog, we’re raging and grieving in this heavy week of news. An elected official who stood for reproductive freedom was shot and killed. Abortion providers were named on a hit list.

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone.” Audre Lorde

Once I had a friend who was friends with Gayle Rubin, and she kept bringing up how unfair the world had been to Gayle Rubin, and finally I was like “Because of the pro-pedophilia stuff?” And she was like “yeah, it was so unfair of them to come after her for that.”

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

Justice Barrett, joined by Thomas, slams the door on another pathway to challenge laws that discriminate against trans people: the claim that trans people are a quasi-suspect class.

did you know that the public discourse around "how can we reform straight men into having a healthy positive masculinity (that isn't too faggy)" and "how can we reform heterosexuality" is in fact the same discourse that serves as the good cop to the bad cop of andrew tate and camille paglia

i'm kind of convinced atp that humankind will not be on the path to freedom until the day cis+heteronormativity is abandoned. until that happens we will have to deal with eternal legal challenges to women, queer+trans ppl, and also 300 articles/yr about "how can we make het sex Erotic again"

and im really not talking about increased suicide risk liberals love to harp about here. historically, the places you had to go for transition medicine without prescription, the trades you were pushed into to afford uncovered surgeries, the learned aversion to trained doctors -- these are dangerous

related as well to the broad idea that legislating trans people out of existence or mandating that they must live as their birth assignment will somehow make trans people disappear. nope, it just makes trans people's lives exponentially more difficult and vulnerable to violence

And you know, it’s not that I expect a detailed understanding of Iranian history from westerners. Nor do I expect them to be up to date on the internal struggles of Iranians. But when you speak in a way that exposes gaps in when you care based on rhetorical convenience, I can’t not notice.

The way the West talks about us, about other cultures, about marginalization and struggle through history, is SO BROKEN. It's like the moment they became self-aware on the reactionary jingoism of the 2000s, they decided to literally never take a real stance on worldwide oppression ever again.

The notion that opinion of Western White Feminists has any significant contribution in convincing the average American to go to war in Iran (as opposed to national security, which is always at the center) is hilariously naive and I’m afraid this tweet is just anti-feminism.

White Western Leftists have a long ass tradition of choking any criticism of global south despots by pretending anyone in the west actually cares about brown people being free, even on the propaganda level, to go to war for it.

“Being alive matters more than what you wear” yeah bestie literally tell that to the people killing Iranian women for what they wear while also failing to protect them from Israel.

The modern wave of reaction has been carried through a certain progressive spinelessness, a refusal to take a stand on anything and pontificate about nuance for hours until the shelters have burned to ash. "Better to be a coward than be wrong" seems to be the motto.

I don't normally like generalizations about different generations, but like, are the millennials ok? Something happened in the last six months. Some of you are begging for your own oppression and calling it progressive when you'd find any of the social justice movements of the 60s & 70s too radical

can't remember who it was that suggested thinking of asexuality as a coalition rather than a spectrum, but i like it. Asexuality is a big part of my identity, but sometimes I do feel like I have more in common with allo sapphics. Happy there's room for community under both the ace & bi+ umbrellas.

"sometimes it really feels like cis liberals have already written trans people off as dead, and are surprised to see us still alive and resisting the continued encroachment on our rights." That's because they have, and they are. "Why won't you go away? Can't you see we're trying to save Democracy?"

I'm really quite tired of this entire tone that pervades politics of trans people being privileged, unserious, and detached from radical politics for whom hormones are little treats we can compromise on instead of vital healthcare that plent of us are sourcing directly from compounders.

Thinking about this 😭 Relinquishing mothers are over 500 times more likely to die by suicide than mothers who did not lose their child to adoption.

Cisgender medical practitioners are, as a class, collaborators

The idea of Ice raids at domestic violence shelters makes me want to vomit and become extremely violent

This brings to mind a recent post, which made a likely correct observation; the average rank and file "wine mom" democrat who shows up to protests is very much not the same type of person as a certain type of insufferable bluesky liberal, the type who spend all their time fighting with leftists.

Why does my medical clinic offer tetanus, chickenpox, flu, and rsv vaccines but not covid boosters? They offer covid testing, but not vaccination

Had to say this on the other site, so guess I'll say it here too: I'm an acespec feminist. If you don't want to hear from "people who don't even have sex" on topics like rape culture, sexual objectification in media, decriminalization of sex work, etc., then I'm probably not the account for you.

Boyfriend #1: "I'm only in this relationship to spite my ex" Boyfriend #2: *uses magic powers to erase boyfriend's memories and plant false information" Person interviewing the actors: "it's almost like they're mutually gaslighting each other"

Though some aces are heteroromantic/hetero-oriented, a broad statement that asexuality itself is heteronormative is a heterosexist claim, and if you think this, I have some reading suggestions for you on what heterosexuality is

I do think this is more or less the heart of it. The notion that the media we consume both reflects and influences the values of the culture that produced it is banal and uncontroversial in every instance *except for* pornography. Why?

You might decide that you prefer the misogyny of the vulgar libertines to the misogyny of the Christian puritans. That’s your prerogative, I guess. But don’t tell me that one of these is somehow not really sexist, or not really harmful. It is harmful.

Be weary of anyone who refers to “cross-generational sex.”

Sex exists on a special, isolated, opposite-day hermeneutic plane where everything degrading and sexist is secretly empowering and feminist. How, you ask? Shhh. Don’t worry about it.

But seriously. If they get rid of no fault divorce, which is not totally unlikely scenario, that is going to be very bad for a lot of people, most of whom are women.

Please get divorced now if you've been thinking about it at all

The feminist survivor movement is a response to a centuries old social program of patriarchal terror. A program built on the brutalized and subjugated bodies of the gender marginalized and maintained only on the basis of the labor it *continues* to coercively extract them today.