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*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...
but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu
this has been a psa
i've had this as an idea since 2017 btw
damn, tumblr says my art is ass and trans people is eye strain so no blaze for me :\
it'd be a shame if this...
blazed the old fashion way...
Ephemera ACT UP Chicago (1990s)
had a fun experience on the subway the other day
thinking about that one moment when I was about to get top surgery
People do not see masculinity as being as fluid and complex and nuanced as femininity and it’s annoying as hell. Because of patriarchy’s stranglehold on masculinity and radfem theory’s stranglehold on queer spaces, people really think with their whole heart that only femininity is subversive or experimental, or frankly, queer, and that masculinity is only a power grab and nothing more. Embarrassing!
Below is a bunch of writings from a variety of genders, cis and trans, on queer masculinity:
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam (book pdf)
Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman (book pdf)
Understanding the Bear Movement in Gay Male Culture by Eric Manley, Heidi Levitt and Chad Mosher Mcoun (essay)
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For Spirit Day, GLAAD Campus Ambassador Grace Ancrum shares her experience with bullying and coming into her gender expression.
This is something that I have been discussing with close friends and working on what this means for myself. As somebody who is considered a
Mermaids’ Luan meets writer Ezra Woodger to talk about his new book, To Be A Trans Man
There's even a wide variety of masculinities even within cis hetero society as well, many of which are not privileged by modern patriarchy. That and a more broad exploration of that also is within the academic text "Masculinities" by Raewyn Connell who discovered her transness writing the first edition.
Well, I addressed a few times that the focus was on people thinking masculinity cannot be queer but also that yes even cishet masculinity can be subversive. That being said, the majority of the texts are by cis people addressing cis masculinities, including cis men. And most of them are related to intersections of other identities, a big one being race.
I admit I knew little about Raewyn (R.W.) Connell but her story sounds so fascinating! A number of trans theorists uncovered their transness though gender studies but I’ve heard of it way more frequently over “”women””’s studies. Absolutely delightful that her study of (predominantly men’s) masculinity uncovered her gender reality too.
I began reading the second edition of Masculinities last night and am already immensely intrigued. (Pdf)
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"Tranz Portraits" by Del LaGrace Volcano, from the book Sublime Mutations
Fifteen year old me, deeply in denial: Im sure all girls wanna look like that
That:
really factual recounting with no embellishments whatsoever
hi this is a comic about me please be nice
Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s
Hisashi Eguchi talking in toco toco
Which could mean nothing
"Butch" by Katie Niles, 1994
source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener
RYAN (HEAD-BUTT), 1999 “That’s not my blood. I was making out with my main squeeze on a stoop in the East Village and some macho jock dickhead walked by and called us fags. I don’t think he expected me to get up in his face. We scrapped a bit and then I head-butted him and could feel his nose break on my forehead. We ran for blocks, laughing at the top of our lungs, and then jumped into bed, where my boyfriend took this picture of me.”
That’s one goddamn beautiful picture.
"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York
source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman
we never should have let cis people get away with “sex is biological, gender is social”
can someone explain this one pls
sure thing! It’s a fairly mainstream “trans-inclusive” opinion that while sex is still biological (which is to say, binary, “real,” outside of social opinion, it exists in nature), gender is socially constructed. This frames being transgender as having a socially constructed gender that ‘conflicts with’ biological sex. This conforms to mainstream psychiatric models of transgenderism, which frames trans people as having an identity disorder or something psychologically wrong with us that makes us ‘want to have a gender that is different from our biological sex.’ It is a handy way of conceding that gender is social while still maintaining the belief that sex is a real biological thing. It is very common among doctors, cis allies, policy documents about trans inclusivity (the ones I’ve read, anyway), and is also a common opinion among trans people in my experience.
I really dislike this framing for several reasons - one is that it is in fact arguing that gender is biologically based by tying it to our ‘natural sex’ (if our gender ‘conflicts with’ our sex, then gender is still biologically based, and if the reason you want to change your gender is because of mental illness, then a desire to change one’s gender can only be gained through psychological abnormality). It also maintains sex as something that is real, unchanging, natural, and universal across space, time, and culture. It is none of those things -
sex can change (HRT, surgery, and so on changes our sex, in fact it’s called ‘sex reassignment surgery’ and HRT is comminly understood as initiating a ‘second puberty’),
sex is not binary - a belief that it is binary is what constructs the category of ‘intersex,’ ie people who don’t fit this supposed universal sex binary, and this construction produces medical violence against intersex people by positioning them as medically defective/abnormal,
sex is not ‘real’ in the sense that the category of ‘sex’ is a social construction that bundles a complex series of properties of the body (external genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, chromosomes, gametes, etc) together by claiming they always 100% coincide with each other and form a coherent whole (this is not true, ‘sex’ is a spectrum because sex refers to many, many things). You can read the work of Julia Serano, a trans biologist who has published many open access essays on this subject. I believe she recently published a piece critiquing the idea that gametes are binary
The process of assigning sex at birth does not even follow this supposed scientific fact properly, because we don’t run chromosome checks on infants, we don’t do ultrasounds on them to see what their internal organs look like, we don’t measure their hormone levels, and so on. Sex assignment at birth is a social process of doing a quick genital inspection of infants and then writing down their sex on birth records based on that inspection, and if those external genitals don’t conform to binary understandings of sex (eg the infant is intersex), these genitals are surgically altered to fit this binary model. I believe Adamson describes this in Beyond the Coloniality of Gender as preparing children for a life of ‘good heterosexual sex’ (this is a paraphrase, I don’t remember the exact quote)
Because sex is a socially constructed category, it is not universal, because social constructs are dependent on the social context they arise in. I’ve read a number of papers from postcolonial/decolonial scholars in particular critiquing this supposed universalism as a form of colonial domination (María Lugones’ Coloniality of Gender, Sally Engle Merry’s Colonial and Postcolonial Law, Boris Bertolt’s The Invention of Homophobia in Africa, Jenny Evang’s Is Gender Ideology Western Colonialism?, B Binaohan’s Decolonising Trans/Gender 101. These last two aren’t postcolonial works but they’re very instructive for understanding sex assignment as a deeply oppressive and non-scientific practice: Heath Fogg Davis’ Sex Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination: An Intersectional Critique and Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and US Surveillance Practices)
essentially, “sex is biological, gender is social” is a massive cop-out that still accepts the framing of binary sexual biological legitimacy, which is the foundational belief that produces transphobic violence and discrimination in society. I really like Judith Butler’s framing of it Bodies That Matter: if sex is this supposedly biological reality that can’t change, but our understanding of sex is only always in reference to our social interpretation and application of it in the world (eg gender), then sex is also socially constructed
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