[fairyfawm]

about post ^-^

my name is prilla (pronouns: fawn/fawns or they/them) and i'm in my early twenties. white and TME. disabled (mid support needs). i live in aotearoa.

interests include marxism-leninism, deltarune (which i post about on my sideblog @snowangelnoelle), animals (especially my pets), revolutionary girl utena (sideblog @revolutionarygirllenin), lolita + similar styes fashion.

[jingerpi]

Heya! One of my org comrades - whom I spent the end of our last meeting explaining the origins of British TERFism and pseudo-Marxist bioessentialism to - has asked me if I have any texts or resources I could send their way on Marxist transfeminism*, and since I remember you trying to collate resources in a post a while back (which I can't presently find, you know how Tumblr is) I thought I'd ask you 'cause I personally can't think of any explicitly Marxist stuff, so yeah do you have any recommendations for me to pass along?

*Not in those exact words, they actually just said they found what I said "vis trans and Marxism really interesting" and they're "very into Marxism and phenomenology of identity at the moment", but y'know if I can steer them into actual transfeminism that would be good

hi!! yes ive been working on this for a bit. unfortunately as ive said its tricky and resources are sparse but ive got a lot more than when i first set out on this. im writing some stuff of my own to add to it and compile a lot of feminist and marxist texts through a transfeminist perspective but that wont be ready for some time, so for now heres some stuff i can recommend. for explicitly marxist transfeminism, the main place id point is evalyn penrose.

A Brief Materialist Look at Transgender Oppression

Note: This article was written in a USA-specific context.

What Is A Trans Woman?

correct revolution depends on correct analysis

Concrete Steps Towards Transgender Liberation In The United States

We know we want transgender liberation, but what does that entail?

another work ive been recommended on is marxism and transgender liberation, which should be particularly revelant to your context, though i still need to read it myself

I can also recommend some critiques of dominant feminism's and where they go wrong, Angela Davis' Women Race and Class is one of my favorites, if you're not familiar she was a member of the Black Panther Party, which should give you an idea of her perspective. there is also Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis, she is not a marxist but is a believe a transfem anarchist, so slightly off but still critiques a lot of these issues from a transfeminist perspective. There is also Philosophical Trends of the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy, a maoist organizer in India. She critiques both radical feminism and terfs, as well as liberal feminisms and even some errors of socialist feminists.

If you want marxist feminism more generally, Sankaras speeches and most of Kollontais writings are good (Social basis of the womens question, etc), but for transfeminism specifically much of it is still in the realm of liberalism (something I am trying to fix), so not much will replace some of the basic foundations yet, like Serano and Crenshaw. Jules Gil-Peterson professes to marxism, but honestly i wasn't a huge fan of A short history of transmisogyny. It may still be worth the read but it requires some scrutiny in my view, in some ways its actually rather anti-transfeminist. I've not read histories of the transgender child but it might be worth looking into further, I'll probably get to it eventually. Similarly Ive heard mixed reviews on Transgender Marxism but given the name its worth noting at the very least.

Bhatt has her own host of problems but I do think The Third Sex is worth a read for people unfamiliar with transfeminism to familiarize themselves with how transmisogyny is often laundered through the language of decolonial feminism.

I can get you links to all of this if you need, just let me know. Serano has whipping girl of course but also a few good articles on her blog, Crenshaw has plenty of writings but the main ones I tend to reference are Demarginalizing the intersection and Mapping the Margins. other short resources that are helpful are Girls you can hit by the part for reclamation and survival, as well as hot allostatic load and the abusers guide if you're wanting to familiarize anyone with how callout posts are often leveraged against transfems in particular. you can also sometimes connect this with Davis' and Crenshaw's writings about sexual purity being weaponized against minorities, if deeper analysis is up for discussion.

I know not all of this is exactly what you've asked for but I was just making a new list earlier and I figured I might as well be somewhat more exhaustive here so I can share this as a more current list of writings on transfeminism which I'd recommend.

I will probably update this more in the future and people are welcome to send me their recommendations, i know theres a lot of smaller writers working on the topic and I'm happy to check those out as relevant. This is just most of where I'm at so far.

^^ <3

[jingerpi]

oh! and if you're looking to analyzing terfs and where their issues come from Ellen Willis' retrospective radical feminists and feminist radicals is pretty insightful as to how things went the way they did, even if I don't totally agree with Willis

[damazcuz]

(Smiling fondly at nothing) puppy music school..... puppy music school.

[damazcuz]

Even puppy can learn music.

[damazcuz]

Literally it's puppy music school.

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[strawbunnycakes]

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[strawbunnycakes]

new sona ☕️🌱

[marinolta]

[fairyfawm]

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[identitty-dickruption]

I'm reading a study on how nurses define the term 'drug seeking', and what makes them more likely to put the 'drug-seeker' label on a patient's charts and. well. let me just throw down some quotes

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

the article itself put it best when it says: “some comments depict patients trying to apply sound pain management principles, such as continuing to take medication for persistent pain”. no wonder all the other literature on the matter says that women of colour are the most likely group to be labelled drug-seeking. this shit is entirely vibes-based (read: based on the prejudices of nurses and doctors)

[iliothermia]

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[fairyfawm]

are you minecraft um because um (gets shy) ten heart when i see you

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[innerchildabortionclinic]

uppies-seeking behavior

[txttletale]

theyre called tankies because you say 'tank you, for having such good political opinions,' to them

[transfemstalin-deactivated20260]

engels please we need to abolish the family quicker my mutuals are going through things you would not believe

[kaitlynillustrations]

I’ve been obsessed with Little Twin Stars since I watched the 70s anime a year ago, so I finally made some fan art of them! 💕⭐️

Prints are available at my Etsy shop, kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com

I also made a YouTube video showing the process of this piece:

https://youtu.be/U81LDxWfqi8?si=XZizOdihaArf_nv3

[kaitlynillustrations]

I’m getting in the mood for spring so I drew some flower fairies 🌷💕 I referenced some photos I took during tulip time in Holland, Michigan. I can’t wait to go see the tulips again this year! 😊

This original piece is available at my shop kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com 🌿

[kaitlynillustrations]

The collection I made with Dollbe is now available at Dollbe.etsy.com 🎀

[anton--rayne]

India's carbondioxide emissions per person is half the global average, while USA's is 7× to 8× times higher than India, 3.5× to 4× times the global average, yet USAmericans are the ones comfortably sitting with air conditioners in their office jobs while Indians die in heatwaves in outside manual labor jobs

[anton--rayne]

And even then its the Indians who contribute the least who are the most vulnerable, it's not the Indians who own shares in oil companies being inconvenienced, it is the workers who work in farms under the sun, those who work in physical construction, outside in manual labor, the regular families who can't afford to move somewhere where there aren't regular blackouts. It's simply not fair, you understand

[winged-void]

does a cute pose despite it all