Deconstructing cis women privilege as well as 'feminism-as-an-ideology' is so f****** hard because it requires to *stop identifying with the aggressor* and actually pulling away from a system that in many ways seems 'caring' or 'safe', even if 'abusive' in many other ways.

IMO, ‘compulsory solidarity’ with cis women—and thus adhesion with (cis)feminism / academic ‘queer theory’—is very much structurally analogous to the dynamic of ‘women who strike a bargain with the patriarchy’. ‘Belonging’ based on ‘fitting in’ rather than ‘coming as one is’ is no belonging at all.

Hammering *again and again* that feminism *isn’s structurally different from any other ideological construct* (as far as it’s ‘behavior’ is concerned) is something most trans women would probably benefit from feeling free to say.

A responsible feminism necessitates to cease projecting the undesirable and unsavory bits outside. (@jane.inurhead.lol, tysm for the quote!)

We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15

Thread on the cisfeminist origins of trans(sex)phobia & trans(sex)misogyny in theyfab art. Trans(sex)phobia & trans(sex)misogyny is subtle yet pervasive in many forms of art & discourse produced by non-transitioning AFABs. Posted in response to a thread on theyfab art by @annatleigh.bsky.social.

We REALLY need to differentiale transsex from cissex ppl—the latter including BOTH cisgender and trans*gender* ppl. Defending and caring for transsex ppl REQUIRES to CENTER them. Because as this graph shows, trans*gender* ppl now make up the overwhelming majority of *trans* ppl (in the USA/west).

pretty good evidence that the dicotomy between cis/transexuals is just as important to understanding patriarchal violence as the hierarchy between men/woman

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Thread on the epistemic violence of single-root cause narratives against non-standard lived experiences. Political messaging inherently requires to simplify reality. This however sadly results in flattening or erasing whole non-standard existences. Beware the pitfalls of rankism. #DignityForAll 🎈🏞️

Afab only space

Most journos are the very happy subservient stenographers of the social order. If you are ever interviewed, insist to separately record the whole exchange. You’ll see how many will become nervous & defensive. Then ask: “Do you fear accountability? Why?” What they‘ll respond tells a lot about them.

"you should consider therapy" is a statement 9/10 thrown around by people who actually have never tried therapy firsthand and witnessed how ineffective it is at tackling most issues

Thoughtful thread underlying the poisoning schmittian friend/foe dynamic sadly operating in a lot of ‘progressive’ spaces (without recognizing their participation in fascistic and scapegoating dynamics for the sake of moral purity). 100% recommend.

Succinctly articulates the tension of “you are valid” discourse with actual trans healthcare needs as well of the different reality planes on which transgender and transsex people operate 🎯

Yes it 100% is. But from reading the context in which the expression was coined, the deconstructionist discourse on “sex as fixed, gender as variable” wasn’t a thing then. *Gender dysphoria* was the term thought the best fitted by the Stanford MD who ran one of the first US gender clinics.

Discord is a shitty app. It breeds shitty behavior and online cults. Its name reflects very often what it helps sowing. Obviously, it's the preferred organizing and community-building tool of most young western progressives. Makes so much sense when the main goal is mostly performative activism 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤯

I am absolutely amazed by the courage and sense of solidarity of the so many people who currently resist the fascist trump admin, but that kind of statement is more a pep talk than sound analysis. Most people live on a borrowed sense of morality and only act when harm is publicly identified as such.

My daughter used to be in Rainbows, like the girl in this story. She coloured in. She iced some biscuits. Did some games. She was welcomed. She played, laughed and joined in. The cruelty is entirely the point. When did bullying little girls become the norm. 1/2

Good example of ideological deformations induced by righteous fragility. This kind of fragility can affect everyone but IME it’s much more prevalent in leftists spaces than elsewhere. Righteousness often requires simplistic binaries in the guise of justice to preserve moral economies.

Shoutout for “Being a Lesbian Is Not a Political Choice" by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social What’s incredible about this short article is how prescient and articulate it was about the dangers of “political” lesbianism, considering it was published almost ten years ago. thequeerness.com/2016/01/30/b...

@dkettchen.bsky.social Just discovered your *Matriarchy* video series. Wow! Beyond labels, your freedom of thought and social independence is stunning! Kudos man 👏 👏 👏 👏 PS: awesome sewing skills 🤗

Purity politics shares common roots with the very systems of oppression criticized by progressive thought. On a deep level, purity politics reproduces the same exclusionary dynamics against which social organizing emerges. Yet, militant culture most often *rewards* purity and not pluralism. 🤯 🤯 🤯

Hi @fiercemum.bsky.social! I am so grateful for your thesis on cis supremacy! I thought about that for quite some time and was positively surprised to discover your work in the few results of my then google search. Thanks! 🥰

Classic epistemicide under the guise of "active interest" and "actual care". I still actively remember my days in academia where so many "research focuses" were actually mostly performative—especially in the humanities. Finding people really caring about a topic was actually quite rare.

This distinction is so useful! I am sadly not surprised that it didn't get traction. Hypotheses as to why: ▪︎  It doesn't make sense for most people for which their lived sex is already aligned with their subconscious one ▪︎  It fundamentally complicates the relationship between sex and gender, ...

This is actually sadly not recent. Viviane Namaste already wrote in 2000 how “queer” theorists actually erased transsexual lives/needs For intellectuals and gender theorists “revolutionaries”, we mostly exist as intellectual curiosities or useful pieces on their checkboard against “patriarchy”.

It’s a classical in-group bias. In this closed-system moral economy, privilege has to give in somewhere for the system to change. In the meantime, AMABs carry the unprocessed shame of the system 😪

In many aspects, cisfeminism is fundamentally built on the shared assumption that *AFAB-coded people possess an ontological moral superiority or supremacy because of their AFABness*.

This 100% highlights one of the places where *patriarchy* and most of the feminist ethos perfectly intersects. I am speaking of course of *ontological female innocence*, which is upstream from most of the subtle/not-so-subtle prevalent moral superiority/supremacy of AFAB-coded people 💁🏻‍♀️🔫🤯