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Jenny Holzer, Untitled In a Dream You Saw a Way To Survive and You Were Full of Joy, 1983-85

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Danez Smith, from “acknowledgements,” published in Poetry (2018)

[“& before we were messy flesh, i’m sure we were the same dust”]

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Julia Soboleva

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not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

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A comic about the spectrum of responses to stress - we talk alot about the more extreme ends of this and trauma, but the more subtle and every day responses can be harder to spot. if we can understand our own and other’s responses better, problems Are easier to confront and blaming is less likely to happen :) hope it’s helpful!!

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there's something truly miserable about JK Rowling being, at this point, the most prominent public figure associated with a hate movement but facing effectively no consequences for it because it's an issue that only a small fraction of the population is passionate about.

Like it's one thing if you have someone who's said or done some "problematic" things in the past. It's one thing for a media figure to be beloved by annoying MAGA chuds but despised by anyone even a hint left of center. It's one thing to consume art from someone who was a monsterous bigot in their lifetime but has long since passed.

But with Harry Potter it's just.... nothing. There's not even a conversation to be had. Aside from people who are online enough to care, everyone else just carries on as before. There is no cancelation to come back from, there is no smaller audience the work is restricted to, there is nothing to contend with unless you're friends with a specific kind of person. I still see people on dating apps who put BLM or ACAB or some other progressive slogan in their bios, but list Harry Potter as their favorite books. There is no shame in this. They see no contradiction because to them it is a non-issue.

Rowling is the face of a hate movement and most people who like her work don't even realize it. They don't have to realize it. And if they did, they probably wouldn't understand why what she's saying or doing is wrong.

I think about this every time I see new Harry Potter media coming out. Society does not care enough about people like me to even question if the people who hate us should face consequences for it.

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Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’ | Life and style | The Guardian

Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’

The author of the ground-breaking book Gender Trouble says we should not be surprised when the category of women expands to include trans wo

Gender is an assignment that does not just happen once: it is ongoing. We are assigned a sex at birth and then a slew of expectations follow which continue to “assign” gender to us. The powers that do that are part of an apparatus of gender that assigns and reassigns norms to bodies, organises them socially, but also animates them in directions contrary to those norms.

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I checked twitter to see if terfs were throwing a fit about this and the first thing that came up was that, apparently, the publishers went back and deleted an entire section where Butler talked about how damaging and fascist-aligned the whole terf/gender critical sphere is lmaoooo. Fortunately some people had it saved so here it is if you didn't get to see it before:

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Screenshot transcript:

It seems that some within feminist movements are becoming sympathetic to these far-right campaigns. This year's furore around Wi Spa in Los Angeles saw an online outrage by transphobes followed by bloody protests organized by the Proud Boys. Can we expect this alliance to continue?

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves.

The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.

The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.

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Information/ slides via:  https://www.instagram.com/endconversiontherapynz/

Additional Resources (Hyperlinked):

Document Containg Information From The Conversion Therapy Action Group [New Zealand]

“The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Change Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity” - Human Rights Campaign

Conversion Therapy (Definition) - Wikipedia

“Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill — First Reading” - New Zealand Parliament (10 August 2021)

“New Zealand moves to outlaw LGBTQ conversion therapy” - Washington Post (July 30, 2021)

“Parliament backs bill to ban ‘monstrous’ conversion therapy” - New Zealand Herald (5 Aug, 2021)

“Conversion therapy ban legislation passes first reading at Parliament” - Radio New Zealand (5 August 2021)

“Man exposed to conversion therapy excited the practice will be criminalised for children and teens” - Stuff.co.nz (Jul 30 2021)

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