#racialized disposability

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Understanding Third-Sexing

Crossposted from my Troonsky account.

[taliabhattwrites]

For #TransRightsReadathon, I've reduced the price of my book on Itch about as steeply as I can afford. I will also note, however, that if you do not have even that much to spare, my work is available for free on my blog. I hope some of you find it worthwhile.

Here's the obligatory Amazon link, for hard copies:

You can also probably inquire at your local bookstore; I've made the book available in both paperback and hardcover.

Here's an ebook link from non-Amazon storefronts, as well: books2read.com/u/br6NXA

Happy reading!

[taliabhattwrites]

Disposability Across Marginalizations

No one who has ever spewed hatred towards "privileged" women, who has dressed up rank misogyny as "punching" up, who has appended every prefix--"white", "cis", "rich", "abled", "perisex", "settler", and more--to their unhinged, bilious tirades, has ever turned around and regarded more-marginalized women with any degree of respect.

People struggle to spot transmisogyny in part because their misogyny is already so normalized. When women are slandered, people hunt for excuses, for rationalizations, are more likely to try and ascertain why the woman deserves it than to leap to her defense. More-marginalized women, then, do not accrue any additional layers of protection, but are commensurately easier to discard and vilify, because not only do we experience the full measure of patriarchal misogyny, but our other identities compound our vulnerability. Many a time you will see a targeted woman whose race is erased, who is positioned closer to whiteness, whose class positionality is inflated, whose power is exaggerated in order to paint her a target is acceptable to be vicious and abusive towards.

Ultimately, these dynamics are simply DARVO, scaled up to community relations instead of intimate ones. Those who wish to be cruel and abusive will exaggerate their own marginalization while diminishing that of their targets, and if the target is vulnerable enough, it will usually work with little pushback.