I could use some warm vibes today, to balance out the creeped-out feeling of having my photo and contact information published on a blog specifically devoted to attacking transsexual lesbians.
*warm vibes*
Evil people :-(
Trigger warning - racialized violence/police brutality
Had a conversation with kid #1 (12 years old), about how to handle himself if he’s been stopped by the cops, or someone like Zimmerman. Somewhere in the middle of explaining how to protect his head &…
Cis people, and cis women specifically, please stop making the cotton ceiling about YOU.
This ain’t about YOUR panties.
This ain’t about “shaming” you into engaging in a sex act you attent interested in. Or using the language of social justice to coerce someone into intimacy or sex with someone…
Remember when they killed Troy Davis with hardly any evidence and recanted witness testimony?
And now, when there’s overwhelming evidence of Trayvon Martin having been murdered —POOF! Nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. Lip service from the “We’re here to serve and protect” police.
You’d almost think there were two entirely different justice systems here. Two completely different ways to value the worth of a person’s life.
i just wrote “genderqueen” instead of “genderqueer” for a paper
I actually kind of like the mental image this gives me:
To cis women, I think this sometimes can look a bit like ‘nit picking’. “Of course trans women can come”, we sometimes think. “After all, it says ‘all women’. Why wouldn’t that include trans women?”. I’ve thought that myself in the past. But, for me, that response comes from a place of privilege. We think it’s not an issue only because *it’s not an issue we have to worry about* (which is almost the definition of privilege). We’ve never have to think about what it might be like to be at an march or a conference or a feminist group meeting and suddenly be made to feel unwelcome or unsafe because of transphobia. We’ve never had to put up with conversations about horrific rapes and murders of our sisters being derailed into debates as to the validity of our existence. We’ve never had to feel the slap-in-the-face of events signed “women-born-women only”. We don’t bang our heads against the wall time and time again trying to bring this point home to people.
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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| — | Adrienne Rich, Invisibility in the Academe (via bitterbuffalo) |
