Yeah I need to read some Wittig, a shameful gap in my reading!
11.03.2026 15:10
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Yeah I need to read some Wittig, a shameful gap in my reading!
this a long way to say:
What are THE feminists texts to you? Things you think most ppl should read/changed your view on feminism as a practice and set of ideas? What should I have read by now?
Like I really really struggle to have sympathy for "I pay 9K a year" if you aren't willing to do the bloody reading!! If you don't want to do the reading, go pick a subject that isn't about engaging in texts and literature and AAAA! solidarity there
(apologies for such strong language but. That is really worrying)!
Jesus fucking Christ.
wait what that was literally so standard on my degree from less than 10 years ago??
missed this very important update
this a long way to say:
What are THE feminists texts to you? Things you think most ppl should read/changed your view on feminism as a practice and set of ideas? What should I have read by now?
I am feeling so overwhelmed by all my reading. I have so many books I've bought in the last two years and not begun. I read quite slowly, and am working on this, but it's taking time. I lost my copy of Verges' Decolonial Feminism & then feel bad about trying to start a new nonfiction
University staff holding banners in Bristol, Manchester and London
Solidarity with professional service staff at several UK universities on strike again today over yet another below-inflation national pay offer of just 1.4% 😯
After years of real-terms pay cuts, University staff deserve better!
#fundourfuture #fundourpay
@unisoninhe.bsky.social
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and the other self-appointed "leaders" of the "anti-war" movement in this country are fucking cowards. Real leadership would be taking action. Real leadership would be risking prison time. I know teenagers and octogenarian Quakers who are facing terror charges.
I think it is fine to rely on the same 5-6, the trouble I detect is being able to do national coordination. There's not enough outside-of-Charities trans orgs, imho, who can do that lvl of national coordination needed [until I have the free time to set one up].
I hear some folks are making #mar10 fan art.
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the trouble is, we're pulled in sm directions, there wasn't a sustained organising effort
A few months back some comrades from another t pride started doing "Boycott Rowling Saturdays" - going into city centres outside Waterstones or Primark, telling people of her evils. I think that there's something in this, an almost BDS-styled campaign to target WB/HP merch!
It's 17 days until Trans Pride Bristol, the pride i help run and OF COURSE my personal laptop has decided to break.
Beginning to realise that actually I am moderately accomplished woman now and like. I shouldn't shy away from this
holy shit. I want whatever's in your E!! I literally would have put you at 36/37
babe are you over 40???
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This Thursday night, gamers, comedians, and storytellers from your local Internet are hosting a Twitch telethon to help replace the $24k that was stolen from @antlervel.vet. Keep up with the stream all evening, 6pm to midnight ET, at SummerGamesFest.com!
Literally one of the best in the game RN.
that would be indistinguishable how modern day GCs talk about trans children. She was not someone who moved into a "post-Camp Trans" space post Mitchfest, she holds a "well there's room for all us - the trans identified and trans critical". I think that this incompatible and rooted in transmisogyny
Oh no worries that's really kind thanks so much!
IMO it's important to not divorce Bechdel's work from the transmisogyny that's really present in the text. She was friends with actual historical TERFs & has a passive tolerance- even now her website describes the trans child in the strip in a way..
I am also writing for OutStories Bristol outstoriesbristol.org.uk although I have been saying this since December but have had to delay.
I would really rec following OutStories Bristol & contributing if you are able to.
There's my piece with @sandraduffy.bsky.social on FWS v Scottish Ministers, and the subsequently reaction from UK trans communities from my POV as an organiser.
journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
Another thing coming, too!
Gathering my writing currently published in one place, to pin.
This is a few years old & I think, after reading more transfeminine readings and transfeminist critiques, I definitely would write it a bit differently
thanks to @wwacomics.bsky.social & @dogunderwater.bsky.social's guidance on this
I am not writing this out so people can feel sorry for me, I don't feel sorry for me. I feel angry for me. Being a tall woman should not mean that I have no dignity in my life.
I don't know a transition that wasn't formed in hardship. I was shocked entering trans communities in 2021/22 (having been out from 2018) that people around me said they'd never faced harassment
I feel so awful how I look bc of all this; that I'm an ugly monster, to be stared at and humiliated
this morning, getting the bus, I was stared at again by all those on the bottom floor. This is now standard part of my morning routine.
Two to three weeks ago, I was filmed on my way in. I get to work, there's an email they/themming me.
This is all just part of living in public now.
Last night coming home, on the phone with a friend I mentioned the word "puberty blocker", this activated something in a woman who insisted on trying to talk to me because "I would want to hear what she has to say", when I explained I'd work 12 hours & was on the phone, she was intensely rude to me