In countries on fire, art can still help us breathe.
My latest Substack essay explores shame, guilt, and the need for inner space—through writing, film, and memory.
🔥 Survival Through Writing and Art in a Country on Fire
In countries on fire, art can still help us breathe.
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I don't remove my body/leg hair to become a woman (because women can have body/leg hair).
I remove my body/leg hair to become _me_.
I am increasingly skeptical of the idea of “women”. It seems the main function of this concept is oppression.
I’m going to read some materialist and non trans-exclusionary radical feminist literature. What I have heard of the work of Monique Wittig speaks to me, so I’ll start with her “The Straight Mind and Other Essays”.
I’ll probably post some more thoughts.
Okay, since this came up let me reiterate what the point of the #ManOrBear debate was.
When a lot of women said that they preferred the bear, men should _not_ interpret this as an "attack" on them personally, or men in general.
Instead, it simply reflects the fact that women have to evaluate their personal safety in entirely different ways than men. Random male strangers are, statistically speaking, far more dangerous to women than random female strangers are to men. Yes, most men are perfectly safe, but there are enough exceptions that women cannot pretend that they are not out there.
In other words, women have different life experiences than men when it comes to personal safety. (Well, duh!)
And the _sensible_ thing for us men would be to accept that having life experiences that differ from our own does not make them invalid.
Instead of, you know, treating statements about these experiences as "sexism against men" or a personal attack ("I am owed the benefit of the doubt, and how dare they suggest otherwise!").
If you get upset about this, then you should direct your ire against the men who cause these safety issues in the first place, instead of the women who have to deal with them.
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#feminism #sexism
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"(biological) women and girls [have a] shared biology leading to shared disadvantage and discrimination faced by them as a distinct group" - the UK Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision from all 10 men and all 2 women https://apnews.com/article/uk-supreme-cout-gender-woman-explainer-d2f2204a498ad3ca1292f2f6f3b8e950
British TERFs, your Supreme Court, which is 83% male, just said that sexist discrimination is caused by biology. The highest authority in your country thinks that the reason women are paid less than men, elected less than men, promoted less than men, abused more than men, appointed to the Supreme Court less than men, and so on... is that they're biologically inferior.
Yes, trans women will be kicked out of women's spaces, but that's because your 5/6ths male Supreme Court sees women as damsels in distress, and thinks they always will be. Trans exclusion is just today's, luckily convenient, side effect of that. Plus they're giving trans men, who may have penises and high testosterone levels, the right to be in your spaces. So is it even that helpful?
Why are you celebrating? #feminism #trans #transgender #ukpoli #TransRights #transrightsarehumanrights
The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. Five judges ruled unanimously Wednesday that “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman.” Some feminists hailed the ruling, but trans rights groups said they were disappointed and concerned. The judgment has far-reaching implications. It could see transgender female athletes excluded from participating in women’s sports, and trans women shut out of women's restrooms and other spaces. But much depends on how the ruling interpreted and implemented. The Supreme Court judges stressed that their ruling should not be seen as an attack on transgender people, who still have legal protections.
The core of this matter is oppression, the material relations between people. Sex is only meaningful here as it flows from the actual material oppression. And the material oppression of misogyny is clearly not based on sex. Otherwise, how could there be transmisogyny that is so misogynistic in character? How could there be femme-phobic attitudes affecting all genders and actual sexes?
I find this quote from Wittig a bit reductive, but it encapsulates the point decently:
“For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.”
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