[tw: transphobia and stuff, erasure, allusions to sexual violence]
““I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I ‘came out,’ I mean that I resolved to never lie about my love for women, never deliberately pass for straight, and never deny a lover by calling her ‘him.’ To do so, I felt, would be to betray not only the women I desired, but my deepest self. …
(via alittleheadache)
did you know that if you search “women born women” on google they try to sell you very unattractive clogs?
radscum take note
Anonymous asked: Are you saying that a lesbian female does not have the right to take action against threats when they're made by trans people?
No. I have repeatedly stated ways in which Brennan could have taken action that would not have endangered this person’s safety.
I am saying that she has no right to endanger people and act as though this was the only possible course of action, which in this situation was clearly not the case.
Also, this bears repeating: Cathy Brennan is an adult in her forties. The person whom she outed is a minor.
Anonymous asked: cathy brennan didn't out rufus as trans to his school. she reported him for making repeated death and rape threats to women, after she alerted tumblr and they did nothing. there are consequences to actions.
In her actions, she made this kid’s status clear to their school. This is unacceptable. As I have said here many times, there is no reason to report this person’s actions to their school. Firstly, doing this puts the person under threat. Yes, it it appropriate and necessary for someone to receive consequences for rape jokes and violent threats of any sort. This does not make it okay for a woman in her forties to endanger the safety of a child.
Secondly, there is zero relationship between a person’s online activities and their school, unless the activity takes place on school computers. Although Brennan has claimed that the kid used school computers, I am unwilling to believe someone who has repeatedly proved herself to lie.
see http://bugbrennan.tumblr.com/tagged/evenweirdosneedtoreblog
So Rufus made rape and death threats to women on his school computer for months, and Stephen Ira and the rest of the Tumblr trans cult didn’t care. Finally someone alerted Rufus’ school of the threats to make him stop, and the trans cult lose their shit over it, despite the fact that he was outed for harassment, not being trans. According to the trans cult, being trans means that rules don’t apply to you.
Also, excuse me if I can’t bring myself to respect the identity of a heterosexual female who calls herself a fag. Someone please correct me if that qualifies as anything but insulting appropriation. I refuse to be gaslighted.
(TW: brief mention of sex worker-phobia)
If high schools were by and large trans positive environments, I would almost understand Brennan’s course of action. However, I happen to know they aren’t. Because teachers knew of my trans status, I was vulnerable to constant harassment and traumatic misgendering. Once, a high school teacher told me that I was only fit for work in a brothel, but even that wasn’t available to me, because “only really confused people would buy you.” Repeatedly, they disregarded my severe bullying at the hands of other students on the grounds that I’d invited it by choosing to present as male even though I was female-assigned. It left me with issues that I will deal with for the rest of my life. Brennan has chosen, as an adult, to make a kid vulnerable to all of that.
There is no connection between Brennan maintaining her safety and Brennan speaking to this school. Had she only wanted to stop the messages, she should have blocked this person and contacted tumblr. Had she actually feared for her safety, she should have contacted police to get protection. (Because of my parentage, I happen to know that this is something cops will provide for people who are being threatened, whether anonymously or no.)
I’m a queer man who fucks and loves other queer men; that’s why I’m a fag. You are neither of those things, so you don’t get to tell me how to reclaim word that have been used against me. It seems pretty funny to me that you think I don’t have a claim to the word faggot despite people frequently yelling “Faggot!” at me on the street, something I’m assuming is not a regular occurrence for you.
one of the venues of radscum 2012 is refusing to allow the conference in!
In consultation with the organisers of RadFem 2012 and our legal advisors, Conway Hall has decided not to allow the booking in July 2012 to proceed. This is because it does not conform to our Terms and Conditions for hiring rooms at Conway Hall. In addition, we are not satisfied it conforms with the Equality Act (2010), or reflects our ethos regarding issues of discrimination.
Taking a page out of the beautiful boyqueen’s book today. Am I winning?
in other news stephen ira’s blogging is on point tonight
“female to girl who can’t say no”
and “female to mage” (true neutral)
and I
are having a moment.
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