Tales of a Wordsmith

Hiya! I'm Jarrah L. Barton. I am an author, poet, actress, publisher, producer, and musician living and creating on stolen lands in so-called Australia

[storyweavingspider]

The Transfeminist Womanism Archives

You can access it here. Please reblog this post when you see it so more folks can get access and so I can get more recommendations to add to it lmfao

This archive isn't complete, as no archive ever is. I'm constantly taking suggestions on what to add to it or changes to make. If you'd like to see something added to the archives or are having technical difficulties, please send me a DM. Current content categories and archivist's note below cut.

"Anonsee, what is Transfeminist Womanism?"

Transfeminist Womanism itself is a synthesis of both eponymous ideologies, seeking to fill the gaps formed within each that often leave out Black trans women - racism within transfeminism, transmisogyny within womanism - when Black trans women are often the people that need those ideologies the most. Transfeminist Womanism is a primarily Abolitionist ideology, finding value in the rhetoric, knowledge, tactics, and tools of anarchism, communism, and other ideologies without falling directly into any of those categories.

Additionally, I've curated a "Foundational" folder that gives guided reading to help understand the underlying principles and thoughts behind Transfeminist Womanism.

If you're an author of works in the archives and you'd like to be added to the tip list, please send me a DM and I'll add your information. For fiction titles and art, I'm only accepting works from Black and/or transfemme authors/artists to be added to the archives.

NEW: If you are Black and/or Transfemme and would like to potentially include your art in the archive - visual, audio, or otherwise so long as its digital, DM me!

If you'd like to tip me for curating this archive, you can do so through vmo @AnonseeStoryweaver or Cshapp $tshenta

Works within these archives primarily focus on the following topics:

-Transfeminism

-Womanism ("Black Feminism")

-Disability Justice

-Restorative and Transformative Justice

-Ecofeminism

and subjects related to them.

001. Foundational - 63 items

002. Transfeminism - 49 items

003. Womanism - 25 items

004. Disability Justice - 6 items

005. Studies - 15 items

006. History, General Non-Fiction, and Poetry - 54 items

007. Resources, Pamphlets, and Instructions - 21 items

008. Fiction - 2 items

009. Religion, Theology, and Spirituality - 28 items

010. Art (non-written) - 5 items

Archivist's note: Remade the post because I updated a bunch of file organization and standardized the file naming much to my chagrin the past several days. This should make it easier to find items AND search the archives. Thank y'all so much for your support in this, it really really means a lot.

[retoxx]

this a beautiful archive, and includes work by one of my elders and mentors Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin who, along with his wife Jonina Ervin, are organizers, writers, and all around lovely people currently living and agitating in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lorenzo needs emergency dental surgery, and they are raising $$ via fundrazr. i feel appreciative to live in a time where i can support living members of a rich political tradition, who have fresh ideas on the path forward and hands on knowledge of what works and what doesn't with regards to organizing. their work is foundational to my thought processes, as well as many active organizers today - please consider engaging with both their writings and contributing to their current life expenses!

Emergency Dental Care for Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Please support us by making a contribution!

[trans-bunny-boy]

Anonsee has painstakingly curated a thorough archive for people to educate ourselves on transfeminist womanism and be good allies with. There was never an excuse to not learn to be better but now even less so. Please go through and share this archive!

And say thank you to Anonsee and all other black transfems, as well as Lorenzo and Jonina Ervin + all the writers and artists 🩷 Please support them all by sharing and donating (if you can)!

[strawberry-crocodile]

jk rowling kills children

[normalest-lux-ever]

Fun fact for anyone who does this, being a misogynistic man isn't funny just because you're trans or you think the idea of treating trans women like women is inherently funny, how funny do you think she finds your "ironic" misogyny when you punch down on the women that don't have cis privilege over you

[strawberry-crocodile]

also no one says it but the punchline of "trans inclusive misogyny" is almost always the implicit assumption that transfeminine people do not actually experience misogyny in our day-to-day life. thats why its considered humorous and acceptable to do, rather than just being. misogyny against women.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

it shows their absolutely vile views on womenhood as a whole and also their views on specifically trans women.

on women in general, it shows that they think misogyny is deserved, natural even, so much so that it is the default way that all people interact with women. if you exist as a woman, at any possible moment, you can and should be subject to misogyny, and thats normal.

on trans women specifically, it shows they don't actually see us as women. they think we aren't subjected to misogyny on a daily basis. they think we dont experience this behavior already, when it's not as they refer to as a "joke". they think that like themselves, no one in the world could possibly see us as actual women.

therefore, when we are subjected to misogyny, it should be "affirming". its someone briefly winking and nodding at us, saying "ill pretend you're a woman, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich". its the belief that they're doing us a favor, that they're being trans positive, even. they think its the same as calling us pretty. after all, they're momentarily treating us the same way they treat every other women.

the worst part is that they're partially right. it can actually feel slightly gender affirming the first time a stranger says your tits look great. but its not as fun the second time. or the third. or the 50th. or the 1000th. they are right, i would rather be called a cunt or a bitch rather than a tranny or an autogynophile. but id much rather not be called any of that. it can feel nice the first time a man hits on you because he finds you attractive (aka fresh meat), instead of hitting you for not being man enough. it gets old real quick having to cover my drink around literally everyone.

people think trans women aren't subjected to misogyny, and that they can be gender affirming by being misogynistic, something that comes so naturally to them that they already do it to all women. but they don't realize that trans women experience transmisogyny - that we suffer through every single thing a cis woman suffers through on a daily basis, and worse on top of that for daring to exist at all.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Love version of by Richard Scott

[madeline-kahn]

@pscentral event 39: pride

"When you’re in a fight as bitter and as important as this one, against an enemy, so much bigger, so much stronger than you - well. To find out that you have a friend you never knew existed - It’s the best thing in the world."

Pride (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[adastrabbit]

had to block a new follower today so im seperating the wheat from the chaff immediately by making my position EXTREMELY CLEAR

[dragongirlsweetie]

fantasy stories love to begin with the world's most razeable peaceful little farming village having a big grand festival

[sepiapol]

It's the best time to raze a village because there's usually people from nearby villages visiting for the festivities so you get to kill more people this way

[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[noze2222]

It's so funny to me when I make a transfeminism post about my lived experience and I get people in my replies saying "You should just say cis people instead of TMEs. It would be wrong to lump trans men into this because your brothers would never ever do that so you should-" and so on because the post will very often be made coming off the heels of a trans man calling me a stupid bitch or an ignorant girl.

To be clear, trans men aren't unique in this at all, but when I say TMEs, I mean TMEs, and trying to interpret some other secret trans divisionist meaning from my posts just makes you look very very silly

[nemfrog]

A perfectionist child “may have a deep emotional problem.” Developing responsibility in children. 1953. 

[truenoodle]

"alas" is a truly S tier english word. fantastic mouthfeel, makes me sound like a world-weary wizard, looks cool when written out. good job to whoever created this word.

[fabiansociety]

thinking of her

[bayesic-bitch]

Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement

[januaryhoney]

Late Spring, Mary Oliver

[frostops]

i dont stricty disagree with the notion that terms like transfeminized and transmisogynized are "better" than tma, but i do think its naive to think either would avoid the "confusion" people have with tma. People who argue we are all affected by transmisogyny would also just argue we are all transmisogynized. People who argue transfeminine just means trans and feminine would argue that transfeminized means trans and feminized. the "confusion" people have with tme/tma was never in good faith.

theres also the issue with neither term having a tme equivalent. shorthand for "people who are not transfeminine" is pretty useful when discussing transmisogyny, and while you could just put the "non-" prefix, avoiding that was part of why tme got popularized to the extent it currently is.

[frostops]

I think another thing to keep in mind is that tma, transfeminized, and transmisogynized are all functionally synonymous. The “issue” tme people have with any of this terminology is its meaning, not any semantic particulars of the given words. Transmisogynists do not want us to be able to articulate our own marginalization. It is meaningful that while they discount tme/tma, they also try to argue for the “validity” of afab transfem, because any language which specifies us cannot be allowed. They know precisely who tma refers to, and that alone is why they hate it.

[fishing-princess]

I hate when people call an animal or a creature “just a little guy” and default to using he/him pronouns for it. Surely we can do better than that