February 2012
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transmisogynist cis women in queer spaces | trans... →
fuck you. go home. get out of my space. get out of our space.
so last night i was attending a fun queer variety show of sorts. super hot performers, a significant amount of trans folk and genderfuckery galore.
my date and i actually came closer to the second half / end of the show, which is kind of a bummer, but anyway, we were standing around and really enjoying the hott performances, many of...
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Fuck The Following Things: — PrettyQueer.com →
1. That folk singer lady who plays at Michfest and house shows in Chicago and stuff. The one who I think is white, and has dreads? BORING. Have you ever noticed that whenever she posts an essay about how it would be impossible for her to ever do anything transphobic, it’s a long, self-congratulatory “I have black friends” argument? It blows my mind and breaks my heart that in a community that...
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Pretty Queer: That's What She Said →
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Sometimes I wonder whether trans men writing about transmisogyny and trans-man-douchebaggery and how much is sucks is the new spoken word poetry. Every time I’ve written anything about how trans dude culture can get pretty gross in the way it appropriates the experiences and oppression…
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The T Word and 5 Other Things You Should Not Say... →
It is unheard of in the life of a trans woman to never experience misgendering, judgment, cissexism¹, or transphobia in their lifetime. It just happens.
In order to understand everything in a transgender perspective, there are certain basics that people have to get through. Creating this list is one of them. And holy moley, there’s so many lists of this and that, and yeah it gets tiring, but...
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Your NATO/G8 primer | Feature | Chicago Reader →
On January 26, the activist organization Adbusters, which helped spark the Occupy Wall Street movement, called for at least 50,000 “redeemers, rebels and radicals” to visit Chicago in the month of May for “the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.”
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electoral politics: the sideshow of 2012 →
as my newsfeed, twitter feed, and regular listening on npr becomes unbearable with so much crap about who is winning over who in the republican primary, i constantly remind others that this is nothing more than a sideshow to real politics: the class struggle.
now, don’t get me wrong. i’m not an anarchist who thinks that all elections and voting within the u.s. power structure is worthless and...