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"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:
I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
But particularly women, and especially black women.
TMEs calling themselves femboys and other transfemme-focused slurs is the gender equivalent of whites calling themselves nigga but if you point it out they’ll try to say that it can’t be comparable because only crackers can be trans women. Which is, you know, just rehashing the trope of “Black women are actually all men”.
It really is fascinating how oppressors just Do This constantly with any slurs/terms that “belong” to us whether we want them or not
Heya! One of my org comrades - whom I spent the end of our last meeting explaining the origins of British TERFism and pseudo-Marxist bioessentialism to - has asked me if I have any texts or resources I could send their way on Marxist transfeminism*, and since I remember you trying to collate resources in a post a while back (which I can't presently find, you know how Tumblr is) I thought I'd ask you 'cause I personally can't think of any explicitly Marxist stuff, so yeah do you have any recommendations for me to pass along?
*Not in those exact words, they actually just said they found what I said "vis trans and Marxism really interesting" and they're "very into Marxism and phenomenology of identity at the moment", but y'know if I can steer them into actual transfeminism that would be good
hi!! yes ive been working on this for a bit. unfortunately as ive said its tricky and resources are sparse but ive got a lot more than when i first set out on this. im writing some stuff of my own to add to it and compile a lot of feminist and marxist texts through a transfeminist perspective but that wont be ready for some time, so for now heres some stuff i can recommend.
for explicitly marxist transfeminism, the main place id point is evalyn penrose.
Note: This article was written in a USA-specific context.
correct revolution depends on correct analysis
We know we want transgender liberation, but what does that entail?
another work ive been recommended on is marxism and transgender liberation, which should be particularly revelant to your context, though i still need to read it myself
I can also recommend some critiques of dominant feminism's and where they go wrong, Angela Davis' Women Race and Class is one of my favorites, if you're not familiar she was a member of the Black Panther Party, which should give you an idea of her perspective. there is also Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis, she is not a marxist but is a believe a transfem anarchist, so slightly off but still critiques a lot of these issues from a transfeminist perspective. There is also Philosophical Trends of the Feminist Movement by Anuradha Ghandy, a maoist organizer in India. She critiques both radical feminism and terfs, as well as liberal feminisms and even some errors of socialist feminists.
If you want marxist feminism more generally, Sankaras speeches and most of Kollontais writings are good (Social basis of the womens question, etc), but for transfeminism specifically much of it is still in the realm of liberalism (something I am trying to fix), so not much will replace some of the basic foundations yet, like Serano and Crenshaw. Jules Gil-Peterson professes to marxism, but honestly i wasn't a huge fan of A short history of transmisogyny. It may still be worth the read but it requires some scrutiny in my view, in some ways its actually rather anti-transfeminist. I've not read histories of the transgender child but it might be worth looking into further, I'll probably get to it eventually. Similarly Ive heard mixed reviews on Transgender Marxism but given the name its worth noting at the very least.
Bhatt has her own host of problems but I do think The Third Sex is worth a read for people unfamiliar with transfeminism to familiarize themselves with how transmisogyny is often laundered through the language of decolonial feminism.
I can get you links to all of this if you need, just let me know. Serano has whipping girl of course but also a few good articles on her blog, Crenshaw has plenty of writings but the main ones I tend to reference are Demarginalizing the intersection and Mapping the Margins. other short resources that are helpful are Girls you can hit by the part for reclamation and survival, as well as hot allostatic load and the abusers guide if you're wanting to familiarize anyone with how callout posts are often leveraged against transfems in particular. you can also sometimes connect this with Davis' and Crenshaw's writings about sexual purity being weaponized against minorities, if deeper analysis is up for discussion.
I know not all of this is exactly what you've asked for but I was just making a new list earlier and I figured I might as well be somewhat more exhaustive here so I can share this as a more current list of writings on transfeminism which I'd recommend.
I will probably update this more in the future and people are welcome to send me their recommendations, i know theres a lot of smaller writers working on the topic and I'm happy to check those out as relevant. This is just most of where I'm at so far.
oh! and if you're looking to analyzing terfs and where their issues come from Ellen Willis' retrospective radical feminists and feminist radicals is pretty insightful as to how things went the way they did, even if I don't totally agree with Willis
it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
"You're too young to remember this, but there used to be so many insects outside that you would have to clean them off the windshield after a long car ride" is the kind of sentence that would have been in a cheesy scifi short story earlier in my life, perhaps submitted to a literary magazine and accepted to show support for its environmentalist message - now it's something I've said in earnest.
There’s art twitter drama about some creators making chiikawa style warrior cats plushies. And everytime it comes across my feed I have to stop myself from going “I think copyright is fake as shit and artists should be allowed to do whatever they want. #FuckCopyrightLaws”. I just have to go clock “not interested” everytime it pops up
Idk everytime this discourse comes around it just makes me realize a lot of artist thinks of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires who if they defend copyright law just this time it’s good. Like boringgggg . People should be allowed to make whatever art they want . Share whatever art they want. Copyright law is just fake bullshit made up by large companies to make more money.
And before someone says some dumb shit about this: No, the solution is not to just make shit at home. Even if you print your own stickers and art prints, make some Shrinky-Dink keychains, tye dye some shirts, or sew up your own plushies or whatever, somebody still had to make the printer, the sticker paper, the card stock, the ink, etc etc. The problem isn't that the artist themselves didn't make it, but that the people who did are exploited.
there’s not going to be a 100% ethical way to make any type of merchandise or art until there is large systemic change. The way things are set up now it’s impossible to make things without exploitation somewhere in the chain.
The way art and human creativity has been locked into having to require exploitation somewhere in the chain is something that makes me so fucking mad all the time.
Filtration performance of do-it-yourself (DIY) box fan filters deployed across a university campus was assessed over an academic year. Four
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Filtration performance of do-it-yourself (DIY) box fan filters deployed across a university campus was assessed over an academic year. Four DIY air filters were constructed from box fans and air filters with a minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) of 13 and deployed in four spaces (two laboratories that include sources of particles and two offices). They were operated 9 hours daily with a programmable timer and were continuously monitored with power meters. Particle concentrations in the spaces were continuously monitored with low-cost nephelometers. The particle size dependent clean air delivery rate (CADR) and single pass filtration efficiency for each box was measured in a laboratory before deployment and every 10 weeks, for a total of five measurements over 40 weeks. We find that these DIY box fan filters maintain robust performance over time, with each air filter maintaining at least 60% of its initial CADR at the end of the 40 week study even with daily operation in environments with modest particle concentrations. CADR values for particles of 1.0–3.0 μm optical diameter averaged 34% higher than CADR values for 0.35–1.0 μm particles, aligning with MERV 13 filter size-dependent filtration expectations. Reductions in CADR over time were attributed to a reduction in filtration efficiency, likely due to a loss of filter electrostatic charge over time. There was no strong indication that increased resistance due to particle accumulation on filters appreciably decreased flow rates over time for any of the fans. The long-term robustness of DIY box fan air filters demonstrates their validity as a cost-effective, high performance, alternative to portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters.
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