It has also been almost entirely detached from systems of power and inequality and become a way to list petty personal grievances.

Which is why you get absurd ideas and constructions like "being taught how to cook by your mom is a privilege third worlders have over Westerners". (Real example.)

Isaac's deconstruction of the 'privilege' framework here is desperately vital because it's no longer used as a tool to name and identify vectors of oppression, but rather a competitive bludgeon through which we assert why others don't have it as bad as we do.

It has become anti-solidarity.

Nothing to do while Bluesky is down??

Why don't you try reading Jemma's new book?? It has transfem lesbian nuns killing men and loving women!!

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And that's a wrap! Out early on Patreon, Talia and Emma look back on the first season of Cracked Ivory, discuss what's in store for the next season, and answer listener questions and feedback!

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interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

[slamming mug on bar, yelling] estonia's right

hey at least he's not white

i actually googled around for pictures afterwards to make sure i didn't hallucinate a hairstyle that doesn't work or really exist, and no of course i didn't

the gender affirming experience of being unable to convince the hairdresser to cut my hair as short as i wanted it

They Detransitioned. They’re Still Trans Allies. — Assigned Lucy Kartikasari was only 19 when she underwent mandatory sterilization as a part of her transition to male. Eight years later, she started detransitioning.

Detransition is often used as a cudgel against the transgender community, but most people who detransition actually remain trans supportive.

Today on Assigned, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social spoke with three detransitioners who support trans people.

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Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why. YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The response to the conversion therapy video has been amazing. I’ve gotten messages from lots of NHS staff appalled to learn about the present-day abuses, who want to hold senior managers to account. As I say in the video, allowing this abuse undermines the entire NHS! 🏥

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Abigail's hard work being recognised is amazing, and I'm proud to say I voted for her <3

two more weeks peeps, please share

Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.

Great article from @taliabhatt.itch.io on the trans literary counterculture that's been at the core of a lot of the hottest sff coming out these days--whether readers know it or not www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Occasionally I run into trans ppl who are like "gosh sometimes I wish I could transition again. Like if I was assigned a different sex at birth, I would've transitioned too. I would transition again, only that's impossible" and I'm like. C'mon man. Don't make me develop a stare like in The Office

How To Prevent Detransition In Five Simple Steps (Part 1) When detransition is not being exploited to deny trans existence, its discussion inevitably flows to its prevention. So let's talk about it.

part 1 btw in case you love chronological order (i read part 1 first and i think it also slays)

open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...?

Detrans/Uncis (Part 2) On the place of detransitioners within sex/gender, and what that entails.

i just finished reading this essay (which is a part 2 to a different one but still) and it fuckin slayed super hard and i liked it a lot so go read it plz

open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...

Long waits filled with uncertainty punctuated by pressure to quickly make decisions is an approach that practically engineers regret. It's completely unjustifiable.

Oslo University Hospital claims their long process for gatekeeping trans healthcare is about reducing the risk of regret. In practice, long wait times with a high risk of being denied treatment and appointments on short notice incentivise patients to ignore concerns and just take what's offered

Yellow text on a hot pink background. "Grow the biggest rack. Win at transition. NO GIRLS ALLOWED." Preorder now - Out May 24th Contains an image of the "Estro Junkies" cover: blue-gloved hands extracting liquid from a vial into a syringe.

Amid crackdowns on transition care, a trans woman resorts to a secret cis-men-only breast growth competition to provide her with hormones. Based on the web serial Ranked Competitive Breast Growth, ESTRO JUNKIES is available for pre-order now!

taliabhatt.com#fiction

I continue to be a bad influence and peer pressure women into reading terrible books >:)

Help me reach 6k, it's very close 🙏

That would be pretty neat if that were true

Since she is professionally associated with neoconservatism, I remained unruffled when Miss Flick told me that though she continued to be grateful for the progress that feminists made in the last 10 years, she had stopped associating herself with feminism about two years ago. She now considers it ''an exclusively radical, separatist, bitter movement.'' I was startled, however, to learn that her mother, who had gone to law school after raising three daughters, was the head of the task force on battered women at the San Diego chapter of the National Organization for Women. ''My feelings about feminism are at least par-tially a reaction to my mother,'' she explained. ''Betty Friedan is right; they're losing the second generation because of this incredible bitterness.'' She went on: ''My abandonment of feminism was a process of intellect. It was also a process of observation. Look around and you'll see some happy women, and then you'll see these bitter, bitter women. The unhappy women are all feminists. You'll find very few happy, enthusiastic, relaxed people who are ardent supporters of feminism. Feminists are really tortured people.''

Married straight women with kids are never unhappy or bitter, of course

Sorry for setting women back since '86, after all there's nothing worse than feminism making women unattractive to men--or worse, lesbians

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Thank you everyone for your support and for listening to us <3 We hope to continue bringing you accessible and irreverent breakdowns of feminist discourse in the coming year!

And for our last offering of Season 1, we present to you the other side of the academic debate between "transgender" and "transsexual": Which one is more subversive and radical, and which is bourgeois and regressive @juliaserano.bsky.social figures out the true answer with us!

I have at least three identities that used to be classified as disorders, science isn't "everything minus the ugly parts" come the fuck on now