Good morning! Happy last day of me being this age! Oh I’ll remember it fondly — me, you, all these links. I’ll think back on this last day of me being this age and I’ll say, “I hope each person found something that spoke to them that day; hope the variety of links was sufficient.” 💌 🎂
Queer as in F*ck You
How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans
LGBTQ Parents Face ‘State-Sanctioned Discrimination,’ American Bar Association Says
The Gay History of America’s Classic Children’s Books
I Thought I Understood My Trans Body—Then I Tried VR by A.E. Osworth! You know them!
Young LGBTQ Families Are Growing Dramatically, Survey Finds
Who Gets to Decide What Your Anatomy Is Capable Of?
Remembering Babs Siperstein, the First Lady of New Jersey Transgender Activism
Arizona ‘Funding Anti-LGBT Hate Group’ With ‘In God We Trust’ License Plates
Tennessee Bills Would Allow Adoption Agencies to Deny LGBT Couples on Religious Grounds.
Saw This, Thought of You
The Period Emoji Is Finally Coming (And There’s A Waffle And An Otter Too) — a hearty thank you to everyone who DM’d me about this 🙏💉❣️
This is a Schitt’s Creek appreciation post.
It’s (Still) Hard Out Here for Women Producers And Songwriters
Student Loan Relief or Paid Vacation? These Workers Get a Choice
A Hole Opens Up Under Antarctic Glacier — Big Enough to Fit Two-Thirds of Manhattan. Yikes bye.
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You know, I looked at this list of links and said to myself, “my, what a wondrous variety of links and sources.”
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then i have succeeded
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Happy birthday for tomorrow, Laneia! I hope you get some time to enjoy the new season of One Day at a Time, which I can only assume is being given to the world as a birthday present for you and me and everyone else whose birthday it is tomorrow.
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see that’s exactly what i assumed when i saw the release date! happy birthday!!
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Thank you!
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So glad to finally be represented in emoji form! A present to us all on this, also also also the day before Laneia’s birthday.
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YOU DESERVE THIS
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Schitt’s Creek truly is the greatest show on television, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
(Happy birthday Laneia!!)
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correct and also https://twitter.com/BisHilarious/status/1057473174802116610
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Hahaha I’m going as the way Moira says “baby”
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#NotAllBritishFeminists
The transphobes are very vocal and will try every avenue. I don’t think Mumsnet are left wing, they seem like Daily Mail readers. They are so obnoxious that the NSPCC (National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children) cancelled a planned Facebook Live discussion with them due to the transphobic questions Mumsnet users kept sending them about their inclusive policies.
Sadly The Guardian newspaper, which is otherwise left wing, seems to think there is a debate to be had about gender and women’s spaces. (I cancelled my Guardian membership and upgraded my Autostraddle membership at the same time a few months ago as a result of being sick of their stance on this. They sometimes have trans friendly articles but they also have transphobic ones).
Happy Birthday Laneia!
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💗🧡💗
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It’s not just the Guardian 🙁 it’s in academic spaces too… So called ‘academic feminists’ being very loud about the “need to have a conversation” as if trans folks haven’t been defending their right to fucking live for the past decades…
The UCU (national union for Further & Higher Education) invited a TERF academic as speaker to one of their national annual seminars…
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Chloe that’s depressing. Why do people invest so much energy in hate.
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It’s hopped the pond—had to deal with this variety of TERF in a grad student workshop just yesterday. It’s a special kind of blind and naive illogic.
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Happy birthday, Laneia! Thank you for all you do for us!
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thank YOU larrann!!
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Happy day before Laneia’s birthday, everyone!
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🎂🎈🎉
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Happy birthday Laneia! I was so excited to read about “swimming in the lady pond,” and then the TERF’s effed it all up.
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the only thing a TERF is good at is ruining a perfectly good swim
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I was reading that TERF article in the New York Times and I followed the link to an article about TERFs putting up a sign in Liverpool that had the Google definition of woman on it. So, it said:
woman
noun
adult human female
Umm, that doesn’t even support your argument, you weirdos! Adult human female includes trans women! I mean, I know it doesn’t in a TERF mind, but it doesn’t make sense for them to pay for a billboard that trans women and trans allies could also look at and say, “Yep. Agreed.”
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If you’re expecting TERFS to be logical, then you’re going have to brace yourself. They’re not. Some prominent TERFs have allied themselves with far-right groups, other have expressed surprise at these far right groups then being misogynistic.
You make a really excellent point that most people would look at that statement and see nothing to disagree with. I think perhaps what that article is trying to convey, and I don’t think quite hits the mark, is that “The Debate” in Britain, in the mainstream media, is often between quite old school feminists, (who are maybe used to fighting for the recognition of women as equally deserving of rights within a binary system, and recognition for women-specific needs within that system (ie, Period justice, more maternity leave, support for victims of doestic abuse)) and more modern, intersectional feminists, who include queer theroy, post-colonial understanding of gender, marxist interpretations etc to try to deconstruct the power of ‘gender.’
And this is new and this work is still being done, so it does sound a bit academic and not ‘common sense,’ and what happens is that your words then get twisted to “Are you saying that a woman is not ‘an adult human female,’ and you’re like “Well, it’s actually an embodied identity constructed through relational interactions between the hegemonic structures of society as performed by individuals” and then you find yourself arguing with a billboard that’s understood by most people as correct.
So… you’re not wrong, but I guess The Discourse is at an awkward adolescent stage right now.
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laneia how could i have forgotten we were birthday twins! happy almost birthday to us!
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HAPPY ALMOST BIRTHDAY CAITLIN !
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It’s my Birthday tomorrow too, so glad to be sharing it in such good company. Best. Day. Ever !
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whaddup feb8 squad!
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Happy birthday Caitlin and Deli!
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Yay! I enjoyed Austen’s essay this morning and hoped we would see it in the next AS link roundup.
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Laneia happy early birthday! I have told so many ppl recently that the ❣️ Is a menstruation heart. Thank you for putting excellent period content into the world! ✨
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Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one!
This para is excellent:
“It’s also worth noting that the obsession with supposed “biological realities” of people like Ms. Parker is part of a long tradition of British feminism interacting with colonialism and empire. Imperial Britain imposed policies to enforce heterosexuality and the gender binary, while simultaneously constructing the racial “other” as not only fundamentally different, but freighted with sexual menace; from there, it’s not a big leap to see sexual menace in any sort of “other,” and “biological realities” as essential and immutable. ”
But I wanted to chime in on the “not all British feminists” line. Not even most, and given that there’s relatively little coverage of Britain on AS, perhaps just having “British Feminists are TERFs” is a little… I think it maybe gives more power to what is still quite a niche narrative, like expecting all Americans to be creationists.
Also, I swim at the place used in the picture to illustrate this and they are _explicitly_trans inclusionary and the lifeguards go out of their way to welcome trans women. So maybe you could make that clear somewhere, because otherwise people might be put off going! If any London based AS readers want to come and swim then join the FB group and make yourself known and I’ll go with you. It’s cold rn but so beautiful.
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Also Also Also that VR articale is brilliant and It’s going on the reading list for the course I teach. Thanks!
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good. good. nothing is forgotten, nothing will be forgotten and i am proud your cult fails and goes openly irrelevant with all-out petty hatred here in UK of all places.
For an upstart cult who declared a complete sacrifice and then failed to implement the genocide in 1976 – from the occult perspective the price is that they will take the place of their declared but undelivered sacrifice.