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Apr. 18th, 2009
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Apr. 18th, 2009 02:47 pm
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Apr. 18th, 2009 03:25 pmSo, what are your favorite trans-friendly, PoC friendly feminist blogs? I have some empty space in my usual blogroll as of this week, and I'm looking to replace them.
I've got takesupspace, womanist musings, shakes, blackamazon, questioningtransphobia,and a few others, but I'd like many many more, just to reassure myself that they are out there.
I've got takesupspace, womanist musings, shakes, blackamazon, questioningtransphobia,and a few others, but I'd like many many more, just to reassure myself that they are out there.
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Apr. 18th, 2009 09:05 pmIt may finaly be time for me to make a longer post about transfail. cisfail. This is sort of in response to a post that was open yesterday but has now been blocked to me, so i can't figure out the diplomatic way to address it.
Basically there was a post conflating the general "my body isn't good enough/I'm not woman enough" bullshit that the patriarchy tries to feed all women with the way trans people feel abut body and gender. And included the whole "if i woke up a guy tomorrow there'd be no problem, so it's totes the same as being in the wrong gendered body as a transperson.
I'm going to make this post all about me for a minute, not because this discussion i needs my perspective, but to counter her personal anecdote shit. I also would not be in anyway gender bothered if i woke up a guy tomorrow, because i personally have a very weak connection to my gender identity. At least part of me would say "Oh, finally' if I woke up male, actually, because i have always been slightly conflicted about my gender. But I recognize that tat is not the same for everyone. Other people have their own degree of connectedness to their gender identity, which doesn't neccessarily correlate with their physical bodies.
This is coming out all assed up.
I feel as though there is a continuum regarding gender identity, like with sexuality, and an intersecting continuum of how strongly one is connected to a gender at all. I'm fairly in the middle on both. I'm cis, in that I dont care much whether I am a man or woman, so since my body is woman it's easy enough to just go with that. But it would still be well within the realm of normal for me to feel strongly that I was gendered. I can't take the fact that I am not closely tied to my gender and use that to deny trans people's experience. Or for that matter to try to tell cis people they shouldn't strongly ID with their gender either, if that was what I was seeing people do.
crap, I feel like I'm still not making my point. I'm going to stop now and see if I've offended anyone with what I've come up with so far.
ETA, I just want to make clear to any who read this that my point is I had a big fucking problem with her using her casual disconnect with her gender to imply that basically since she can deal with not feeling woman enough as a cis woman, being trans is no big. Not that I somehow agree with whole bit that being a woman in a sexist society means she understands the subtleties o trans issues. But I couldn't say it on her journal because I don't have a dreamwidth.
Edit again. If you don't know what cisgender means by context, fucking google it. Posts picking at the language from a privileged point of view will be summarily deleted. If you really need to get a language moan off your chest, PM me, so the other readers don't have to deal with your derail. Thank you for reading.
Basically there was a post conflating the general "my body isn't good enough/I'm not woman enough" bullshit that the patriarchy tries to feed all women with the way trans people feel abut body and gender. And included the whole "if i woke up a guy tomorrow there'd be no problem, so it's totes the same as being in the wrong gendered body as a transperson.
I'm going to make this post all about me for a minute, not because this discussion i needs my perspective, but to counter her personal anecdote shit. I also would not be in anyway gender bothered if i woke up a guy tomorrow, because i personally have a very weak connection to my gender identity. At least part of me would say "Oh, finally' if I woke up male, actually, because i have always been slightly conflicted about my gender. But I recognize that tat is not the same for everyone. Other people have their own degree of connectedness to their gender identity, which doesn't neccessarily correlate with their physical bodies.
This is coming out all assed up.
I feel as though there is a continuum regarding gender identity, like with sexuality, and an intersecting continuum of how strongly one is connected to a gender at all. I'm fairly in the middle on both. I'm cis, in that I dont care much whether I am a man or woman, so since my body is woman it's easy enough to just go with that. But it would still be well within the realm of normal for me to feel strongly that I was gendered. I can't take the fact that I am not closely tied to my gender and use that to deny trans people's experience. Or for that matter to try to tell cis people they shouldn't strongly ID with their gender either, if that was what I was seeing people do.
crap, I feel like I'm still not making my point. I'm going to stop now and see if I've offended anyone with what I've come up with so far.
ETA, I just want to make clear to any who read this that my point is I had a big fucking problem with her using her casual disconnect with her gender to imply that basically since she can deal with not feeling woman enough as a cis woman, being trans is no big. Not that I somehow agree with whole bit that being a woman in a sexist society means she understands the subtleties o trans issues. But I couldn't say it on her journal because I don't have a dreamwidth.
Edit again. If you don't know what cisgender means by context, fucking google it. Posts picking at the language from a privileged point of view will be summarily deleted. If you really need to get a language moan off your chest, PM me, so the other readers don't have to deal with your derail. Thank you for reading.