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the discourse

Wishing a safe and peaceful trans day of visibility to my community 💖🏳️‍⚧️

hey you look really cute today

april fools you look cute everyday keep it up 

kinda hungry and don't get paid till tomorrow night can I get some funds for dinner?

Conservative Vision for America.

or less!

here he is... the april fool

look i normally hate it when people univeralize jewish concepts to describe all oppression but everyone needs to know about ostjuden

anyway today i met a trans guy who said he hates it when people who look like me (long hair? not on t? sports bra instead of binder? i guess) use they/them or think we have a place in spaces designated as being for transmascs and afab nonbinary people

like 15 minutes earlier he was trying to convince a trans woman to come to his transmasc group because i guess she doesn't present fem enough for him to see her as a woman

right i skipped the part where i tell you about ostjuden. it means "eastern jews." german jews in the early twentieth century were antisemitic towards eastern european jews who they saw as too primitive, superstitious, yiddish-speaking, religious, poor, dirty, folk-y, etc.

so. basically there's a phenomenon where people adopt the form bigotry targeted at their group but you wouldn't say they internalize it, because they don't direct at themselves; they direct it only at other members of their group who they perceive as somehow lesser.

not a direct comparison to the above example because viewing someone as inferior (like the ostjuden) is different from like... viewer someone as a poser, in terms of the power dynamics involved.

anyway, we should talk more about this kind of oppression, because it's not exactly internalized oppression but it's like. internalized oppression's cousin.

When one of my ancestors came to America he changed his name from Krasny to Roth (not the actual names, but you get the idea). Family lore has long held it was to sound less Jewish, but recently I've developed the hypothesis that he was trying not to seem ostjudisch

yeah this was a huge part of it. the ostjuden were poor country bumpkins who who spoke yiddish and were not assimilated. they were "too jewish" which was embarrassing.

(also, i'm sure it was not all german jews who thought this way, i realize i implied it was in my earlier reblog)

which means that german jewish antisemitism can only be understood through the context of the antisemitism that said german jews experienced. it pushed them to assimilate and to want to separate themselves from populations of jews who they feared would cause antisemitism to be directed towards them. especially given that that is in fact exactly what happened; nazi ideology was able to pick up steam because the ostjuden were immigrating to germany, and people were anti-immigrant. the right wing playbook hasn't changed much.

the takeaway here is not "german jews sucked," it was "bigotry has a lot of complicated effects and one of them is lateral bigotry."

which means i also need to understand trans folks' transphobia through the context of the transphobia they experience; they likely perceive the presence of "agab-appearing" nonbinary people as a threat to people seeing them as legitimate. the bigotry isn't originating from them; it is passing through them like a prism and taking new form. which does not excuse it, but affects my approach.

david jenkin's thread consuming my life once again x

Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

finding a term that you’ve never heard before but it resonating with you so deeply is a really cool experience

and that is why research on queer identities, whether gender, sexuality, or romance, is so needed!

from Ace Voices by Eris Young

[ID: photographs of pages of a book. Transcript follows:

/end ID]

this is making me lose it

"What radicalized you?"

1) Fucking empathy

2) Disco Elysium

The bourgeoisie are not human

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

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