I do not at this point in time have the skills to write effective fundraising posts, and do not have the energy to spare for higher intensity engagement with fundraising than sharing them due to ongoing problems in my family. I am sorry about this.
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There is, has always been, and always will be a future for Palestinians. For many, however, that future may not be in Palestine anymore.
23-year old Khaled Al-Anqar’s life was disrupted by the war, right before he was to get married and travel the world. Now that the Rafah border crossing is opening back up, he has a chance to continue his life. He needs our help to raise the funds to get himself and his family into Egypt. Please, your support for Palestinians cannot stop at a ceasefire.
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"actually, me and the boys (haha) have been hard at work in the genderfuck labs and our latest thing is we've realized that women don't even exist. so if you continue to try to define women as a socio-political class or discuss 'womens issues' it is actually YOU who are being unwoke & sexist & bioessentialist & evil & bad. this is the future of feminism. we are very smart."
reminder that if you think other cultures having "third genders" is inherently transmisogynistic
"It can't be that non-Western cultures simply didn't really care that much about if trans people were the exact same thing as cis people of that gender, we came up with the one true understanding of gender that must objectively exist across throughout all of humanity! I have 'anti-imperialist' in my bio btw."
Hey quick question bestie
Given that you fully admit to not having anything resembling epistemic authority on this topic, why exactly would you espouse such a confidently incorrect opinion on it? You insane fucking lunatic?
I was talking to someone who's spent time in a hijra community today. As in literally twelve hours ago, I had an online exchange with someone who told me that hijra is most often directed at them as a slur, and they simply refer to each other as women when amongst their own.
An experience which dovetails with my own, because I LITERALLY FUCKING GREW UP THERE!
I have ignored your bizarre fucking fixation on me because it literally doesn't fucking matter to me, but this is a fucking step too far. You do NOT get to imply I am racist to my own fucking culture and people and sisters for highlighting how they are erased both intraculturally and cross-culturally! You do NOT get to do Tumblr SJW cosplay while blatantly perpetuating Orientalist lies right from the imperial core's very Academy, and daring to call me the racist one all the while! And you ESPECIALLY DO NOT GET TO PRETEND YOU ARE ON A RIGHTEOUS CRUSADE AGAINST ME WHILE LITERALLY APPROPRIATING THE SUFFERING OF MY PEOPLE FOR YOUR FUCKING SJW LIBSHIT IMAGE!
Fuck every atom, every iota of you. I do not care what you think of radical feminism or my writing, but don't you fucking DARE speak on my people ever again you miserable, obsessed, petty, vindictive, untalented pukestain of a human being.
Hi, rad/fem! As I said in response to that ask, nothing I said had anything to do with hijira, and was not in response to you. I was responding to - let me emphasize so you don't miss it this time -
and saying that if you're talking about one in particular you should
Now, I understand you believe I have an obsession with you! But I saw posts doing this before I had any idea any of it began with you. I haven't read your article about third sexing so I have no idea if it fits the pattern of making claims about all indigenous cultures. I made this post and then I was informed after the fact that people were saying these things because of something you said about hijira, which, again, I have not read and was not commenting on when I was calling people who aren't you racist. I did get pointed by others to people with "epistemic authority" contradicting you, but I still never called you racist.
I don't think you're racist.
I just think you're kinna dumb.
Cool story, still racist!
See I know why you have a bug up your ass about me. This faux-detached charade is piss in the river because you literally yap about "Transradfems" constantly and have me as a dedicated tag on your posts.
You are not the first miserable cracker too confident in their mediocrity by half to get fully deranged about me, and you will not be the last.
But back to the point, I know why you're this fixated!
Because I talked shit about your precious fucking religion that justifies the dehumanization of my sisters in flowery terms, and you didn't like that! As someone who didn't grow up with it, hasn't lived with the effects it's had on your society, and has a rose-fucking-tinted idea of what a culture that DIVINE MANDATES SEGREGATION looks like!
Well too fucking bad, whitey! You don't get to be racist just because I, as an actual fucking apostate from this theological regime that inspired the Nazis, pointed out that your religion divinely mandates misogyny and segregation!
Again, I keep coming back to: You have no fucking idea what any of this is like! Your vapid cosplay amounts to less than a hill of piss! You didn't even check to see that the post on the hijra you boosted wasn't by a transfeminine Indian person at all!
Further, you admit to not reading a thing I've written, including the essay that patiently lays it all out and includes testimony from hijra activists. Nor reading my book, despite the fact that the contents of said book are freely available online, and I post them to this site.
So here's the thing, Velvet. You're a racist cracker obsessed with slandering me while fully admitting to your own illteracy, and I'm plugging my book here and blocking you.
Fuck your racist, appropriative ass forever, and preorder my fucking book.
what i’m learning today is that there are a lot of people who get personally offended for not knowing very simple basic facts, rather than like. acquainting themselves with information through a google search. so many people would rather announce to the world “so i should be crucified for not knowing what a perineum is? 🥺” than just privately googling and learning something without anybody ever knowing that they didn’t know it. wild
y’all don’t google literally everything you don’t know? you just say things without checking them against anything???
but plaidos haven't you considered the struggles of people who live in an isolated bunker where they can only access tumblr dot com and no other websites, fully and entirely dependent on the testimony of tumblr users to learn about the outside world?
reminder that if you think other cultures having "third genders" is inherently transmisogynistic
"It can't be that non-Western cultures simply didn't really care that much about if trans people were the exact same thing as cis people of that gender, we came up with the one true understanding of gender that must objectively exist across throughout all of humanity! I have 'anti-imperialist' in my bio btw."
Hey quick question bestie
Given that you fully admit to not having anything resembling epistemic authority on this topic, why exactly would you espouse such a confidently incorrect opinion on it? You insane fucking lunatic?
I was talking to someone who's spent time in a hijra community today. As in literally twelve hours ago, I had an online exchange with someone who told me that hijra is most often directed at them as a slur, and they simply refer to each other as women when amongst their own.
An experience which dovetails with my own, because I LITERALLY FUCKING GREW UP THERE!
I have ignored your bizarre fucking fixation on me because it literally doesn't fucking matter to me, but this is a fucking step too far. You do NOT get to imply I am racist to my own fucking culture and people and sisters for highlighting how they are erased both intraculturally and cross-culturally! You do NOT get to do Tumblr SJW cosplay while blatantly perpetuating Orientalist lies right from the imperial core's very Academy, and daring to call me the racist one all the while! And you ESPECIALLY DO NOT GET TO PRETEND YOU ARE ON A RIGHTEOUS CRUSADE AGAINST ME WHILE LITERALLY APPROPRIATING THE SUFFERING OF MY PEOPLE FOR YOUR FUCKING SJW LIBSHIT IMAGE!
Fuck every atom, every iota of you. I do not care what you think of radical feminism or my writing, but don't you fucking DARE speak on my people ever again you miserable, obsessed, petty, vindictive, untalented pukestain of a human being.
...Oooooh THAT'S what Hussie meant by having the fandom/hatedom parody character duo be space aliens who'd never interacted with another member of their species, exclusively learning about humans from unreliable narrators on the internet
I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)
Okay, having received one thoughtful message from a hijra and approximately two hundred hostile and ignorant messages from white people, I'll clarify further:
1) Hijra are at once an incredibly specific and incredibly diverse community. There are plenty of trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming Indians (myself included) who are not members of the hijra community. There are plenty of hijra who do not identify as trans women.
This is because the term trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming are Western terms. Most Indians who use these terms for themselves are either immigrants or are wealthy enough to have studied in Western schools.
(Note: this does not mean that BEING what a Westerner would call trans, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming is a Western construct. Just about every culture in history has had people who did not fall into what we think of as standard binaries. But the terms themselves are Western, and therefore rarely used by those who have not heavily been influenced by Western culture.)
Prior to making this post, I had exclusively heard from hijra who feel deeply insulted and erased by the way Westerners insist on calling them "trans women" rather than respecting that hijra identity cannot be summed up by Western queer theory.
THAT SAID, I have now been informed that there are people who identify as both hijra and trans women. So it was wrong of me to say "hijra are not trans women," because that erased the people who are in fact both.
I am deeply sorry for that, and deeply grateful to the woman who took the time to correct me.
What I should have said was, "Some hijra identify as trans women. Most hijra do not. Trans women and hijra are not interchangeable, and to call all hijra trans women is to erase hijra identity."
2) That said, I'm really struck by the sheer number of white people who are frothing at the mouth to tell me in all caps HIJRA ARE TRANS WOMEN and I'm a terrible terrible person for thinking otherwise.
I reiterate my above note: I am a nonbinary Indian person. I am not a hijra and I am not a trans woman. I am more than happy to accept correction from those who are members of or who have a deep understanding of the communities I am speaking about. I am profoundly grateful to the person who provided that.
But when you, a Westerner who is eagerly jumping on the "someone is wrong on the internet" train, start screaming HIJRA ARE TRANS WOMEN, you are erasing the vast majority of the very communities who you tell yourself you're defending. Which is, in fact, the favorite hobby of Westerners. So consider why your idea of social justice is just to replicate the same systems of oppression and silence that you think you're fighting against.
No, it's a slur.
And they might not identify with the English term "trans woman", but many--frankly most--hijra consider themselves women. They ask to be counted as women in the census. They march in Aurat Marches. They travel on the Ladies' Compartment.
They also very much organize under the banner of trans rights as well.
Our culture simply denies their womanhood, in addition to denying their essential humanity and shoving them out of society to die on the margins, begging for scraps.
They may not call themselves trans women, but they are indubitably a transfeminized population who do insist on their womanhood, only to be denied it by their transmisogynistic culture.
So you know, stop running weird propaganda for it.
I wrote 10,000 words on where the weird, Orientalist conception of the hijra comes from, a view propped up as much by cis desi and diasporic academics as white ones.
Please actually understand their place in a culture that is intent on denying them legibility and categorizing them as inherently lesser.
Signed,
Trans woman who grew up in Mumbai and who has actually subjected herself to the rancid scholarship on her people.
Gaza will be rebuilt & we will restore its beauty. With Palestinians in it.
begging a specific genre of "gender abolition" absolutist to realize that the path to gender abolition R E Q U I R E S analyzing the current situation of gender, and getting mad at people who do that in favor of plugging your ears and pretending it's already abolished won't achieve shit
trans people of all sorts don't need to contort to fit into your gender abolition framework, your gender abolition framework needs to be grounded in how you get there from real life.
If you're talking about going to live on the moon, and someone else is talking about the problems with getting a rocket out of Earth's gravity well, you don't get mad at them on the basis that the gravity on the moon is weaker! You're not on the moon! You need to get off Earth first!
Or, I dunno, given what routinely gets passed off as functional viewpoints on this website, I wouldn't be surprised if some of you DO live on the moon and get all your information about people on Earth from scattered posts on this one website, the only website you can access from the moon, but you know what? The rest of us have to act based on the material conditions we live in here, on Earth, right now, and you're actively undermining that work by bogging it down with is/ought confusion you should've sorted out sometime in your adolescence, but I guess they don't fucking teach that at moon school?
begging a specific genre of "gender abolition" absolutist to realize that the path to gender abolition R E Q U I R E S analyzing the current situation of gender, and getting mad at people who do that in favor of plugging your ears and pretending it's already abolished won't achieve shit
trans people of all sorts don't need to contort to fit into your gender abolition framework, your gender abolition framework needs to be grounded in how you get there from real life.
If you're talking about going to live on the moon, and someone else is talking about the problems with getting a rocket out of Earth's gravity well, you don't get mad at them on the basis that the gravity on the moon is weaker! You're not on the moon! You need to get off Earth first!
begging a specific genre of "gender abolition" absolutist to realize that the path to gender abolition R E Q U I R E S analyzing the current situation of gender, and getting mad at people who do that in favor of plugging your ears and pretending it's already abolished won't achieve shit
trans people of all sorts don't need to contort to fit into your gender abolition framework, your gender abolition framework needs to be grounded in how you get there from real life.
begging a specific genre of "gender abolition" absolutist to realize that the path to gender abolition R E Q U I R E S analyzing the current situation of gender, and getting mad at people who do that in favor of plugging your ears and pretending it's already abolished won't achieve shit
A CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED!!!!!
This is a time for celebration, but it is not an excuse to turn your eyes away from the people of Gaza, who still need our support to either rebuild or leave!! The Rafah border crossing is REOPENING, and it costs €5,000-€7,000 PER PERSON to cross. The Al-Anqars are raising funds to leave through Rafah, and need our help, NOW!!
Thank you all so so much for your support during this time of besiegement and horror—hopefully now will be a time of peace, rebuilding, and new beginnings for the people of Gaza.
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Gaza will be rebuilt & we will restore its beauty. With Palestinians in it.
Our house is destroyed. When we return from the south to the north, I don’t know how we will live in the house, but a small donation from you can enable me to build a room to live in. Please donate.
The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people But when we go to our homes, we will not find these homes destroyed.
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