#radicaltrans

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transgender community does not exist outside the contexts of those very entities which are concerned to find a transgender community: social service organizations, social science accounts, and activist discourses

David Valentine, Imagining Transgender, pg. 68

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to imagine historical subjects as …  'transgender' ignores the radically different understandings of self and the contexts that underpinned the practices and lives of historical subjects

Imagining Transgender, David Valentine, pg. 30

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trans epistemologies pt. 1

‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ are neither self evident experiences nor natural explanatory frameworks”

- Imagining Transgender, David Valentine, pg. 1

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i was not born in the wrong body 

i was born in the wrong society

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your presence is powerful.

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developing voice: historicity of femininity pt. 1

femininity in colonized america...

is historical phenomena, learned tradition,

and not inherent nor dependent on the topography of bodies, though some bodies are privileged with being able to contribute to the historicity of gender performance . 

needs to be located

in both time and space,

because recognition of our variations is key to our liberation.

has been dominated and violently ruled by cis folk,

with the production of new femininities only being recognized  by bodies with vaginas and breasts

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~ there is not just one femininity. there are femininities, plural, and one can practice a multiplicity of these femininities ~

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this is a call for a reordering of femininities located in the united states

(b/c i am in the u.s. and i have no place to make a call for change in other places and spaces)

we need to recognize that any body, regardless of genitalia, hormones, or chromosomes, has the capacity to produce new femininities. 

these bodies should be recognized as having the agency to do so.

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this is a call for the survival of transfemininity. 

we who claim our womanhood automatically have the capacity to claim femininity to our bodies, regardless of our dix, our deep voices, our beards. 

we demand that our transfemininity enter the canon and persist through history. 

without this, our bodies are being conquered and imprisoned by cis folks’ limitations and conceptions of their own gender performance.

we do not perform cis femininities because we are women.

we are women who CAN perform our own femininities.

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message me w/ ur thoughts and critiques. help me develop these ideas

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But a person can only be transgender if and only if they identify that way

B. Binaohan in decolonizing trans/gender 101, (28)

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projecting the transgender identity on folks is an act of white supremacy and colonization. many iaopoc who are not cis are not transgender. by automatically assuming this label, one is participating in the white social justice tendency of discursive colonization

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“I try to use the concept of queer time to make clear how respectability, and notions of the normal on which it depends, may be upheld by a middle-class logic of reproductive temporality.” (In a Queer Place and Time,6)

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