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A large majority of feminists are just cultural feminists whether they realize it or not IMO Cultural feminism meaning an emergent, informal style of feminist thought in which man-as-conquer and

I wish queer identity discussion made much more room for queer people who can’t and never could hide their identity. We don’t all have the option of passing as cishet

There needs to be better understanding in trans circles that the terms AFAB and AMAB have shifted meanings over time, largely based on cis misuse of them, and their original

The thing about arguments over “can someone be an AFAB trans woman” is that it frames it as about trans women telling people what they ARE ALLOWED TO DO, when

Prison abolition is a longer term project and requires extra-electoral movement. In the meantime, there needs to be pressure against the transmisogynistic violence inherent in the prison system. Cis women

I think where a lot of cis women run into difficulty with trans issues is that for a long time, trans women in feminism was framed as about inclusion, like

Americans need a better understanding of how our political culture relies on intentional stigmatization of socialism to build the feeling that it’s the worst political outcome possible. Even caution about

Something else we need to understand more than ever is that fascism relies on capitalism. In fact, I think it’s fair to argue that fascism is a distinctly capitalist phenomenon

Many people want to claim oppressed and thus in-group status re: transmisogyny (“no one is exempt” etc) without OPPOSING transmisogyny, revealing the superficially semantic nature of this argument for what

One of my problems with defining transmisogyny as the intersection of misogyny and transphobia is that, even if we are to define it just as combinations of more “fundamental” oppressions

Actually, no, let’s NOT normalize romances in which the leads don’t end up in a relationship, because there’s already a category which distinguishes that from romance: love story. IOW, let’s

“Wouldn’t romances be more progressive if the heroine ended up without a man” is, in addition to anti-romance garbage, yet another way to conceptualize around cishet white women first and