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May Peterson, Wicked Witch Girl (she/her)
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The way transmisogyny gets characterized in trans circles as a thing that sucks up attention, a shallow manipulation tool of trans women, is amazing because it’s crystal clear how much
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Many claim trans women don’t understand the fight for reproductive freedom because we’ve always had it, but trans women have NEVER had reproductive liberty in this country and still don’t.
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I feel I should make clear, on twitter I have a “speak for yourself” impulse a lot and I’ve talked about transmisogyny being institutional, but I am personally also really
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Social justice abstractions tend to revolve around irreducible foundation concepts that are treated like objects instead of descriptions of complex events in the real world. Misogyny isn’t a particle, do
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The thing about the transmisogynist argument that “women’s oppression is about biology” is that it does two things. One is that it prompts us to fight it by denying sexism
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So one of the hard things about discussing double standards is that sometimes it’s about identifying a standard no one should be held to, sometimes it’s about a standard being
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Thread for cis authors who want to write trans women or transfem/AMAB non-binary characters (esp. in romance)!I encourage reading the whole thread as my point may be more than it
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Let’s have a thread about a behavior I like to call Vulnerability Hoarding. This is when someone emphasizes their own vulnerability, frailty, suffering, etc, in a way that frames the
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We need more understanding of how there’s a culture of hyperscrutiny around the work of trans writers, particularly on the way trans life or suffering are depicted. I routinely see
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Story motifs don’t have the same meaning for all authors/characters. Eg. a common feminist motif is a woman shown not needing protected by a man. But trans women already don’t
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This kinda blew up so I want to add something that’s also related to Kai Cheng’s earlier commentary about shame, how shame and guilt are different, and what we should
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Does anyone else get a strong sense of guilt and shame from receiving *positive* attention? For decades, I’ve had not only a sense of guilt for receiving it, but a
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