Jyoti MishraApr 23, 2023

“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”

- Dagger: On Butch Women, 1994 by #LilyBurana & #RoxxieLinneaDue

https://archive.org/details/dagger-on-butch-women/mode/2up

#Butch #Lesbian #Queer #Gay #GayHistory

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Show threadFatsquatch
@Jyoti It was this very book that first put the notion in my head that transition was, at least theoretically, possible. The year was 1998, and I was 22 and working in an "adult retail" establishment that was decidedly queer friendly and ran across this book on one of the shelves. I had always been masc-identified but never really considered That a possibility, and then upon a quick flip-through I got to the chapter on trans men and some little voice in my head said "Oh, hey, that's A Thing! A Thing we want!" FFWD 8 years (and a few Discovery Channel documentaries) later, and it became A Thing I did. Even though I never actually read more than a few words, this book literally changed my life.
Apr 24, 2023 at 2:07amWeb
Show threadJyoti MishraApr 24, 2023

@Dr_Tranny

Oh wow - thank you SO MUCH for sharing that with me. Isn't it amazing how books can reach out and change lives, like this one did.

With me, I remember reading Lenin's 'State And Revolution' when I was 17 and it just clicked. What the state was, how it was used / could be used. BAM!

Show threadDaniApr 25, 2023
@Dr_Tranny @Jyoti That sounds so much better than how I learned: finding one of Dr Stoller's late 1960s books in my university library in 1994. At least it meant I found the story of Agnes Torres.
Show threadJulia RezApr 25, 2023

@AmericasSweeth8 @Dr_Tranny @Jyoti

TIL that GRS was far more common in the fifties/sixties than I realised.

Show threadDaniApr 25, 2023
@JuliaRez @Dr_Tranny @Jyoti It definitely was around, but one of the points of the story of Agnes Torres is that she lied about taking her mother's medication and did things to engender the belief that she was intersex by Stroller, et al, because it was key to her being able to have surgery. She would have been denied if the reality was known.