Juliana πβπ¨
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A lute strung with poets' sinews Hermaphrodite Logic β a new history of the intersex movement (out June 3rd)
Berlin
Joined December 2015
I'll be publishing a history of intersex liberation, 'HERMAPHRODITE LOGIC' with Verso Books next June.
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Classic leatherdykes always hit because they look like total dorks while undeniably People Who Fuck.
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They wrecked her studio, she set up a fundraiser to try and restore it, then they killed her.
π¨Heartbreaking: Haya Meqbil 24 years old , an architect & owner of a pioneering company specializing in interior design and decor, was KILLED today by Israeli army along with her entire family in a barbaric airstrike on #Gaza City & the homes of civilians.
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The 'Starbucks offers full trans healthcare!' to 'Medical detransition as implicit leverage during a union drive' turnaround was so quick.
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Idk if the stereotype is women loving Magic or men not wanting to wear pronoun pins.
pronoun pins at this card shop lol we're never beating the allegations
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Really captures the tenderqueer self image in the last frame.
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Somehow by the 21st century most people stopped thinking in terms of fashion choices as generative of silhouette, and started to think of them as a means to display bodybuilding "results". I'd love to know why.
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Lots of DMs:. Yes, they deleted a paragraph criticising gender critical feminism. Yes this is confusing, and (I'm told) unprecedented. Yes we asked for it reinstated (or as a last resort, republished). Yes I offered a rewrite to bring it up-to-date. Yes I'm now going to bed.
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Radical feminists (2022): Lesbianism is when an ADULT FEMALE (XX) loves another ADULT FEMALE (XX) very much. Monique Wittig's 'The Lesbian Body' (1973): We escape heterosexuality through cuddling cats and reciprocal cannibalism.
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Media people: I've written a press statement about the Judith Butler censorship (cancellation?), feel free to DM me if you haven't already. Non-media people: think about a capybara, just close your eyes and picture it's ruffly little fur, and squinty friendly eyes. Neat, huh?.
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@hannahkateboast @seanbeegee One weird tip: tell yourself 'I know I shouldn't feel this way' and any unwanted feeling will vanish without a trace.
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@OmerYeroush @Helenreflects Zionism is a nationalism, calling it an identity is goofy. Opposing nationalism consistently isn't cancel culture.
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Basically 'birth assignment' was meant to be denaturalising but now people are using it in ways which assume it names a real category of people, not a heterogenous process (ranging from discursive to institutional to surgical).
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Guardian US asked me to interview Judith Butler. We talked about their early work (Gender Trouble turned 30 last year!), and more recent controversies around 'gender ideology'. Enjoy!.
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A new public Patreon post from me, to store the deleted Judith Butler answer in a more stable place than Twitter. Also includes my questions (original and revised).
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The use of 'safe' here is making my skin craaaaaaawl.
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I simply wanted illuminate how Judith Butler isn't a theorist of identity, but the *limits* of identity as a sound basis for political emancipation. Same as their use of the word 'performativity', this point not only gets missed, but reversed!. Sadly, that seems set to continue.
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They deliberately cultivate a sense of themselves as uncultivated, easily confused goofs, to sustain a career framing themselves as 'cult victims'. It's the same thing as sissy fetishists declaring themselves perfectly passive submissives (while actually being very pushy).
If you ever detransition, by law you have to buy a pair of the ugliest stupidest glasses imaginable.
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Specifically the hatred against him is biphobia (horror at ambivalence):. He's too well kept to be a dad, but seems cosy like a husband. Lean but not muscular. Effeminate yet assured. Elegant but not a twink. Overdressed for the occasion in casuals. Tight trousers but no belt.
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The original meaning of 'coming out' was a playful appropriation of US debutant rite of passages. The point wasn't that you made a public statement of your orientation to the wider world, but specifically the moment when you hit the scene + presented yourself to your peers.
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So this BBC journo was working on this piece for *over a year* and didn't google one of her key named sources, Lily Cade. Or did she know?.
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Have any of you seen the size of Barbara Streisand's house? Wow, what a beachfront!.
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@tronsgender @masctrologer Ime if you asked an archaeologist 'Did you dig up a male or female individual today?' they'd be most likely to reply something like: 'Who is to say if this context even had individuals! Modernity isn't my department'. As a discipline it's the worst nightmare of the anti-wokes.
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did ANY boys with this haircut circa-2009 survive as males?.
full circle moment to meet @skrillex 12 years later and him asking what my new name is. what a legend β€οΈ
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How the fuck would a ban on conversion therapy for gay/lesbian people that includes an explicit exception for 'encouraging gender non-conformity desistance' even work?.
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(To be 100% clear: my proposed question rewrite was written and sent to them before the deletion. Goodnight!).
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I KNOW THIS IS ME BEING AN ORTHODOX BUTLERIAN AGAIN BUT 9/10 OF YOU BITCHES SAY 'performative' WHEN YOU MEAN 'ceremoniously' OR PERHAPS 'with a flourish' OR JUST 'pretentiously' AND IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL.
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I'm going to be thinking of the feminine use here all day.
I utterly condemn the ongoing attacks on Israel and her citizens. There is no justification for this act of terror which is being perpetrated by those who seek to undermine any chance for future peace in the region. Israel has a right to defend herself.
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The momentary thrill of roasting a tenderqueer has been replaced by the dawning horror of how extensive Defence Contractor Twitter is.
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Cortisone is a steroid y'all. Your wound isn't less inflamed, you're literally on drugs.
Testosterone has an antidepressant effect. Estrogen has a "calming" effect. You aren't gender euphoric; you're on drugs.
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I don't use the term TERF anymore other than flippantly (TERF island). At this point it's more confusing than ever to conflate Gender Critics with radical feminists. Most GC feminists have no background in radfem organising + rarely speak of 'patriarchy'. Many are even hetero.
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It's pretty unusual to hear prison abolition perspectives in Britain, especially via mainstream media, so this is v cool.
βLet's take trans people and see how they expose a problem in the whole system.β. Shon Faye says the problem of where to put trans women in prison could reveal wider failings and asks βwhat if our goal was not to delight in punishing people but create a less violent society?β
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Makes me feel blue that Keffals has one band of people saying she raised too much money to take on the organisation that shoved a gun in her face and then booked her as a male, meanwhile the network of people who made it happen are saying their only regret is she wasn't killed.
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Helen Joyce asking for a chart definitively ruling intersex variations as either male or female. There are in fact three such charts by 'Gender Critics' in circulation, as that phobic movement is split on Androgen Insensitivity. It's almost like sex is complex!.
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I wonder how many cruelties she faced from you before this one.
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Broke: Endos treating their trans patients as pathological pity cases, miserly estrogen doses as standard.Woke: Accidentally getting high on your own supply while roadtesting estrogen as the elixir of youth.
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The more I read about N. American residential schools and Irish orphanages, the more I realise we need to be more anti-clerical politically.
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A concrete resolution where T4T is neither a 'mode of care' nor 'like incest', but a type of gay sex.
t4t is like incest. it would probably happen if two sisters were stuck alone in an attic for 25 years and it wouldn't be good or okay but the victims deserve pity, not anger.
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A shooting outside a Bratislava gay bar killed one man and one nonbinary person, injuring one more. The shooter was a Slovak nationalist, but his 65 page manifesto cited the usual global right rota too. This is a clandestine movement, not isolated crimes.
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Liberals are incapable of arguing against reactionaries on trans kids without reaffirming the sovereignty of parents / children as their property.
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Never really bought trans and intersex people having competing interests. This is affirmed by the situation in Texas, where intersex cutting ("corrective") surgeries are explicitly exempted from the trans ban. The state distinguishes these two groups, only to preserve harm.
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@LeeColvin711 @Rachelagain The mortgages and insurances (overheads) secure you with *equity* that increases along with the property prices. Your tenants are footing the bill for your asset appreciating over the years, while buying themselves no lasting security beyond each month paid for.
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Remembering that 'SOPHIE appropriates female experiences' piece and (once again) in awe of how oblivious to gay scene conventions liberal feminism became in the 2010s.
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I'm afraid this was largely why PrEP is so important, and has achieved breakthroughs in years previously impossible in decades.
holy shit. imagine saying condoms shouldnt be part of HIV/AIDS advocacy because βpeople donβt like condomsβ.
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Profoundly offended by Sarah Ditum saying trans men don't write hornily. Patrick Califia? CJ Hale? Paul Preciado? AO3?.
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@wifekisser303 Come on now Beancat would never say transexxual it's 'binary white transfems' collective and 'that person' singular.
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It's really for 40 something arms contractors :).
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This is a silly stuff. It isn't biphobic (or transphobic!) to notice when you're surrounded by hetero action. We've learnt to identify spaces that aren't centred around us from bitter experience. There's a clear diff between a bisexual freakshow and a dozen het couples at it
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HRT guru Will Powers threatened a critic with a lawsuit to get her blogpost about him taken offline.
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So any black woman who does well against a white athlete has to have her endocrine system probed. Fuck this cocktail of racism, transphobia and interphobia!.
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Straight girls hate effeminacy so much, I find it disgusting to watch.
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You call that "T4T"? Looks more like Anxious4Avoidant! (The audience hisses, tears me to pieces).
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What you have to get about New Atheism is that it's colonial Protestantism that they streamlined by jettisoning God.
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Let's push for this worldwide! Nobody should be trapped in a war zone.
Ireland will waive visa requirements for all Ukrainian people who travel to Ireland following the Russian invasion, the Taoiseach has confirmed.
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Yes our rage is performative: it instantiates itself through the repetitive action. How else would we have any human response to the grandiose, impersonal and dehumanising processes of imperialism?. Should we offer those atrocities no passionate reply, instead?.
The over-the-top fury at Henry Kissinger from younger, very-online people seems to be about 40% based on legitimate studying of his career, and 60% being excited to find a target for performative rage. People love making public shows of self-righteous protest and rage.
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I'm sorry but queer theorists were unironically right about 'reproductive futurism' and it's becoming embarrassing I ever doubted it.
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Well we burnt out their archive, their schools and churches, left their medics performing amputations without painkillers, abandoned kids on incubators to rot, bombed their poets and scholars alongside their families, and declared them human animals. But "genocide" is too much.
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People say stuff like this as if the bedrock of fascism wasn't engineers, shopkeepers and medical doctors.
they should invent a mysticism that can survive in modernity without making people nazis.
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I think you shouldn't date someone born in a timezone to your west.
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I admire the kid's obvious resistance, obliging her parents to escalate and explicate their imperatives at a level that will be much easier to challenge later in their life. Remember not only that this coercion happens but that kids push back from younger ages than we recall.
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@SpillerOfTea She seems to think Hitler was describing his own plan rather than his deranged fantasy about the plot hatched by "International Jewry" (which to him included them normalising transsexuality btw).
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People should read the original Compulsory Heterosexuality essay, which tries to use the framework as part of the case for straight women and lesbians having more closely shared interests than gay men/lesbians. Never an altogether convincing claim imo!.
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I'm trying to phrase this in the least moralising possible way: if you brush off the thought you personally are disabled, there's a good chance you are shutting down a breakthrough in consciousness that will help you build power with plenty of people around you.
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@halomancer1 They struggle on dating apps because they put Harry Potter references in their profiles to drop a hint they're phobic, meaning they have a Harry Potter reference in their dating app profile.
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The type who three years ago would have denounced 'racist microaggressions', but now Palestinians are called 'human beasts' while having their food/power cut off says 'it's complex'.
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As a historian, it's hard not to see 'Judged by the standards of today. ' type arguments as an effort to sweep under the rug how long the US had an abolitionist movement, prior to Emancipation.
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First we aren't allowed to "romantacize" recreational drugs, now it's HRT. Taking control of one's own destiny, reshaping one's appearance and senses, can only ever be romantic.
IMO romanticizing HRT isn't good either. It's a very serious business which shouldn't be taken as just some aesthetics or vibes. It's a medication which has very strong effects on one's body and it's not just nice ones.
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@WistfulOtter @MFrederickM Does 'FeministRoar' think that 6 foot cis women never have abusive partners?.
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Some say I'm betraying my materialist feminist principles when I tell them I'm a moon goddess worshipper these days. But here's my why Marxist burnout is the rational twin of ritual sacrifice to ravenous pit deities. (1/93).
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All I have to promote is another tism rizz icon look.
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Tenderqueer love letters like 'Darling you made me form a secure attachment like I never thought I could, without once violating my boundaries, asking without asking to ask, or missing a stair. Is it OK to say I adore you?'.
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Hi Jesse! Butler didn't talk about Wi Spa in their answer. Cutting that part of my question was only floated when The Guardian told me their plan to axe the whole last section of the piece. JB could have been consulted + editor's note added. I forgive you for calling me a hack.
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Hi I'm Alan Sokal, maybe you remember me as the (in)famous hoaxer who published a spoof physics article in Social Text. Wasn't that a laugh?. But today I'm hear to tell you which types of LGBT conversion therapy don't count as conversion therapy. .
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Bro I didn't depict them as a crying baby cabbage-crab, you know who did?.
Adding the word 'tenderqueer' isn't going to erase the fact that you're making fun of somebody for being uncomfortable with seeing PDA.
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Zizek did so much research for this he claims the Tavistock Clinic are 'woke capitalists' motivated by profits (it's part of the NHS).
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek: "Wokeness Is Here To Stay".
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You would think that how interchangeable these acronyms become under close scrutiny would have people questioning the whole pop psychological process of authoritatively assigning those around you Disorders. You'd be wrong.
if y'all want a REALLY hot take about borderline personality disorder, here's mine . it's high functioning AUDHD for girls.
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A lot of Gen Xs counterculture was defined by deriding anyone who still believed in revolutionary change as old fashioned and past it. Across time that gives way to 'well what about accurate crime statistics??' type thinking, and a dozen kinds of edgy pessimism.
Why did Gen X produce so many TERFs. Didn't yall pride yourselves on being counter-culture?.
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LGBA: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to 3/5 of the victims. ".
We are horrified by the news of the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, and stand in solidarity with LGB people worldwide against this senseless hatred. Our thoughts are with the victims, and all who knew and loved them.
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