Western society habitually presents itself as the society of the rights of man, but before a man could have rights, he had to constitute himself as an individual, to consider himself such and to be considered such; that could not happen without the long experience of the European arts and particularly the art of the …
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Burn, Gender Binary, Burn: Against Me! Turn North Carolina Show Into Protest
A while ago, when rock’n’roll behemoths like Bruce Springsteen canceled their respective North Carolina shows in a sign of protest against that state’s anti-anti-discrimination bill HB2, Against Me! and particularly frontwoman Laura Jane Grace announced that they would play their show in Durham, but would turn it into a form of protest. And they weren’t …
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The redhidinghood_ test
red-hidinghood: Is there at least one single trans person in this film about a trans person? Good question to ask, not only because The Danish Girl and Eddie Redmayne are getting a lot of Oscar hype.
Transgender people have always existed.
Trans people and names
red-hidinghood: If trans people tell you their name it’s already their “actual” name.
Against Me! released a live version of True Trans Soul Rebel as a precursor to their upcoming new live album, which is awesome on its own, but it also means I get to add the best punk song of recent memory to my running Best Of 2015 Spotify playlist, aptly called “Wait, it’s 2015?”(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Judith Butler addresses TERFs and the use of theory against transgender people
This is a really good (and actually understandable) interview with Judith Butler in which she clarifies her positions on trans people undergoing transformation and surgery (”brave” and “there is nothing more important than for transgender people to ) the use of social construction theory against trans people (”a false, misleading, and oppressive use of the …
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When a trans woman is called a man, that is an act of violence! Laverne Cox Sending out a lot of love tonight to Leelah Alcorn, the friends who loved her, and the entire trans community. (via femmevision)
She warned us against becoming a movement only for white middle class people, this was 41 years ago, and today, so much of the ways in which LGBT equality has played out has been about white middle class people. Laverne Cox talking about Sylvia Rivera
Goldberg’s One-Sided New Yorker Article “Undermines Transgender Identity,” And That’s Still A Euphemism
I subscribe to the New York Times digitally (mainly because it can be useful as a North American cultural studies student) and recently subscribed to their “what we’re reading” newsletter, a selection of articles from other publications NYT editors like every week. When I opened Tuesday’s newsletter, I was briefly exited. A recommended article from …
