#trans rhetoric

[kittyit]

new ways to blame women for male violence that are just the same old ones in a neoliberal disguise.

[whalehouse1]

How it feels seeing anti-Trans messaging in a Red State:

[woodpengu]

Realized I don't use a "born in the wrong body" rhetoric for trans beans. I referred to myself as "the wrong shapes" or "deformed" (myself, not others, unless they related to the syntax). My surgeries were "tumor" removals, and my dysphoria is a deeply visceral "phantom limb" experience.

Any sense of "born in the wrong body" was a conflation - an entanglement of emotions seated more in how people treated my struggling self rather than how I genuinely felt in my skin.

Because this is my skin.

Wrong shape, right skin. This flesh was surgically altered to fit closer to the software. Same skin, different shape. Shapes that don't enable a sense of illness or disability or poor functionality. I didn't end the "old me" to birth the new... I shed the skin - the ill-fitting outer layers that do not suit my overall health and well-being - in order to accommodate me. That's the way I see it.

[queerephemeralities]

Queer Geographies, 99

This review essay asks how the field of rhetorical studies can center intersectional queer and trans perspectives within conversations about space, place, mobility, and mapping. What difference does it make to center queer and trans sensibilities, bodies, and practices as central to the production of spatialities? How has our criticism contextualized the study of space and place in ways that would inhibit centering queer positionalities, temporalities, public cultures, and intimacies?

[queerephemeralities]

Queer Geographies, 99

More so, as Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Catalina de Onís note, the turn to space or environmental topoi in situ signals a growing ecological awareness from which to examine social and planetary precarity. Space matters. Space is alive, dynamic. Space is a medium of power. These are foundational tenets of a rhetoric of space and place that have been well established. And yet in accounting for orientations of spatiality as a social process or struggle over belonging, queer and trans perspectives on the matter seem to have fallen off the map.

[ohegarty]

He has spoken.

[ohegarty]

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow