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"Mothers are uncelebrated, overworked, and made to endure thankless drudgery" and "Society equates womanhood with motherhood and romanticizes the role of mothers to push women towards domestic confinement" are both true statements about patriarchy by the way
The point is to sucker you into indentured servitude with pretty words
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do you think building solidarity with other multiply marginalized women among the anti-transmisogyny community on tumblr is worthwhile? what is our role in the greater struggle against oppression to you? or are you more focused specifically and exclusively on transmisogyny?
i think any (trans)feminist worth her salt should be talking & reading about other multiply marginalised women. some of the women i am closest to, feel safest with, and who i feel understand/engage with my experiences the best have been cis women of color, particularly disabled cis women of color. like even just on a purely pragmatic level i’m going to be honest there are just not enough trans women for us to meaningfully tackle transmisogyny without help lol. build bridges wherever possible.
like, ultimately, no offence but i always kinda laugh at the implications behind “should we be focusing on other multiply marginalised women or just transfemininity” — im sorry, but there are lots of trans women who are disabled, non-white, immigrants, living in the global south, homeless, chronically ill, etc etc anything you can name. even beyond the inherent responsibilities to other marginalised people that i feel everybody has, there are trans women of belonging to our own community who do not feel safe, respected, or even accounted for amongst the transfeminine community due to being marginalised in other ways.
also btw whilst flattered i’m utterly baffled how many of those asks were like “forget sex or dates, i want you to tell me your transfeminist takes, i wanna listen to you teach me things i don’t know” like first of all that’s already what my blog is lol and secondarily as much as i like talking about it, it is not sexually gratifying to me in any way to teach other people stuff like this
Forcefem kink but the "fem" stands for "feminist"
I made that one for bsky like weeks ago
I've been accused of thinking men are ontologically evil a couple of times, and to be clear, I would never absolve shitty dudes of responsibility like that. Men who are evil have the opportunity to choose otherwise.
A better world is possible, and preventing it from being built is a group effort with a large number of knowing, willing participants. Morally that's worse than if they couldn't help it, actually.
I have seen men choose to talk in crass and dehumanizing terms about the women they profess to love, even when themselves uncomfortable with the language, simply for the approval of male peers.
They're not innately evil. They exist in a social, cultural, and legal context that demands misogyny from them, that frequently enables misogynistic violence free of consequence, and the rewards for doing so are just tantalizing enough that most never unpack their beliefs about "women's place" in the world, never bother to think about the consequences of their actions and words, never consider that the humanity they take for granted is something they often refuse to extend those placed below their sex-caste.
It would be so simple if men were just innately evil, because then we could just act with that as a constant of our world. Instead, we exist in this matrix of engendering violence, of discipline and humiliation, where our most intimate relations are tainted by the moral cowardice of people who'd rather be a Man than be empathetic to the struggles of the Womanized.
That's worse.
Hello Tumblr Crew. Today I reach out to you with a personal matter. My big sister and the kindest, smartest and most loving person I know is in desperate need of financial support to be able to get her facial feminization surgery (FFS) as health care in Germany does not cover it.
Here is the link to the crowdfunding campaign on gofundme. you can also donate directly via PayPal. i would be so grateful if any of you would help my sister out, be it by sharing this post or donating. if you have any more questions feel free to message me!
Hello Tumblr Crew. Today I reach out to you with a personal matter. My big sister and the kindest, smartest and most loving person I know is in desperate need of financial support to be able to get her facial feminization surgery (FFS) as health care in Germany does not cover it.
Here is the link to the crowdfunding campaign on gofundme. you can also donate directly via PayPal. i would be so grateful if any of you would help my sister out, be it by sharing this post or donating. if you have any more questions feel free to message me!
Hello Tumblr Crew. Today I reach out to you with a personal matter. My big sister and the kindest, smartest and most loving person I know is in desperate need of financial support to be able to get her facial feminization surgery (FFS) as health care in Germany does not cover it.
Here is the link to the crowdfunding campaign on gofundme. you can also donate directly via PayPal. i would be so grateful if any of you would help my sister out, be it by sharing this post or donating. if you have any more questions feel free to message me!
I’m big sister 🥺
Jaskier gave in to the puppy eyes
“Today, the fields of queer and trans history are still in the process of finding ways to talk about gender and sexuality diversity among Native people in a way that is neither appropriative nor exotifying. Here I am trying to tell the story of Ozaawindib’s life, not as a way to show the myriad possibilities of gender and sexuality among “primitive” peoples, as some white queer writers have done. Nor am I telling her story so it can be used as a sort of precursor or opening scene which non-Native queer people can inherit after Native people seemingly vanish from the dominant narrative of history. I am sharing her story simply because it is an apt demonstration of how gender diverse Native people were important actors in North American history. Ozaawindib’s story reveals important historical realities of queer, trans, and/or Two-Spirit experiences in North America, especially relating to the process of colonization and the erasure of people who did not conform to the accepted dominant standards of gender and sexuality.[i] Both her story and its subsequent narrative fracturing are symptomatic of larger trends in the history of North American queer, trans, and Two-Spirit peoples.”
— Kai Pyle Ozaawindib, the Ojibwe Trans Woman the US Declared a Chief (via makingqueerhistory)
If only “first world” sex workers care about decriminalization, then why is it a global movement more strongly organized, say, in Calcutta, India (durbarblog.org famously has a massive membership base that makes SWOP in the US or Australia look like a knitting circle). African sex worker activism also supports decriminalization (please see Chi Adana Mgbako’s work http://law.fordham.edu/faculty/chimgbako.htm) as well as very organized groups everywhere in the globe (http://sciencespeaksblog.org/2015/08/07/with-amnesty-international-set-to-vote-on-sex-work-decriminalization-stance-african-asian-groups-unaids-voice-support/). Gabriella Leite is a very influential voice in Brazil and the documentary on her life’s work is worth a watch. (http://www.akissforgabriela.com/).
Sex workers around the globe are fighting for decriminalization because they oppose state sanctioned violence against their lives and families. To suggest that only American sex workers are fighting for decriminalization to the expense of the world is to willfully ignore the voices of women loudly speaking up on every corner of the planet. Cops are not the path to liberation.
We are our sisters’ keepers, not the police. Criminalized sex work won’t stop patriarchal violence any more than homicide laws have stopped murder. Marriage is an institution under which women are trafficked, raped, & battered but we haven’t criminalized these unions even though not every women gets to consent to her lawful marriage and/or may make her choice based on economic necessity. What we do is we create networks of people ready to assist women in bad situations *when they are ready to make that leap.*
Criminalizing any aspect of sex work ultimately serves to keep women in danger.
Moreover: I love watching someone’s bullshit statistic climb throughout their argument. 90%, 92%, 94%….what’s the source for this? 115 Blagork percent of sex workers had hummus sandwiches for lunch yesterday.
Additionally, issues of treatment on the job are not used to defend any other form of employment. Restaurant staff, retailers, janitorial services, childcare (babysitters, daycares) etc all have horrible customers, deal with work place abuse, and continue to work these jobs purely for money related reasons. But i dont see swerfs rushing to criminalize eating out, or hiring a cleaning lady.
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked. How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet, at the same time, remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
— Bell Hooks, All About Love (via sydneyrae)
COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.
african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement
Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents
Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.
This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.
They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.
231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21
237,730 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.
PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)
Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.
The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.
If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.
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Lucy, a trans woman who survived the Holocaust, is refused by all retirement homes
Translation of this article: https://tetu.com/2018/01/18/une-survivante-trans-de-la-shoah-est-refusee-par-toutes-les-maisons-de-retraite/
The Italian administration refuses to give Lucy Salani, 94, a place in residence for elderly people on the grounds that she is trans.
It’s hard to imagine, looking at her 20-year-old portrait, that this woman with a peaceful face witnessed so many horrors. Lucy Salani was born in Piedmont, northern Italy, in 1924, but grew up in Bologna, further south. Rejected by a family who sees her as a “different boy”, she is sent to the army to serve under the fascist flag. She deserts but is overtaken by the authorities and deported Germany. After a miraculous escape, she is captured again. This time, she is sent to Dachau, the first concentration camp built only a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor in 1933. Classified as a homosexual man, she most likely carried the pink triangle that was imposed by the Nazi power to deportees for homosexuality, which accounted for up to 2.5% of the detainees in Dachau. Of the 200,000 political opponents, Jewish people, LGBT people, Roma and Sinti who were sent there, an estimated 70,000 people died. All experienced cold, famine, sickness and torture. On April 29, American soldiers entered the Dachau camp. Lucy is alive, she is a little over 20 years old. Shortly after the Liberation, Lucy physically transitions in England but in the eyes of the Italian civil registry, Lucy still has her birth name and male legal status. For several years, she lives between Bologna, Rome and Turin. She is an upholsterer and interior designer and also likes to organize parties. Often passing through Paris, she frequents her trans friends. In Italy, she continues to be punished for crossdressing until the 70s. During the 80’s, she returned to Bologna to take care of her aging parents Now 94, Lucy lost her family but still lives in Bologna, where she lives alone and isolated. Some volunteers of the MIT, the Italian Movement for Transgender Identity, visit her to help her in her daily life, because even if “she is very energetic and she has no major health problems,” she needs constant care. But the Italian Social Security refuses to grant her a place in a retirement home. According to social security Lucy can not be placed with the men and share the bathrooms since she has changed sex, and vice versa with regard to sanitary facilities for women since she is legally registred as a man.
In the space of a few years, the number of people in Lucy’s situation may increase. MIT’s lawyer plans to legally fight this situation and MIT also aims to open an inclusive establishment in Bologna: it has already raised funds “but nobody wants to rent us premises.”
