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emma, she/her. detrans lesbian for trans liberation. my writing seeks to reframe issues of detransition through a radical transfeminist lens. co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social links: dolphindiaries.carrd.co fiction: @mzakharuk.bsky.social

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · Apr 17

A case of competing needs (or are they?) and a synthesis of dominance transfeminism and disability justice.

(FYI I finished this before the fucking court case, I hate to be relevant 😭)

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A stark, almost black-and-white image of a gavel rested atop a table. Over it there is a title and a subtitle of an essay from dolphindiaries.substack.com. Title: "Detrans Women v. Trans Men, Or: The Sanity Of Sex Change." Subtitle: "What madness lies at the heart of patriarchy?"

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking more about this, the relationship of gender clinics to trans people has always been extractive. They make money and careers off the suffering they inflict on us.

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 16h

aw thank you

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 17h

Boosting this essay again for no reason at all. You all are still utterly useless in countering anti-trans detrans grift, sorry

open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...

Detrans/Uncis (Part 2)

On the place of detransitioners within sex/gender, and what that entails.

open.substack.com

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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 19h

it's just madness. i have encountered a TERF lesbian maybe once. i am friends with numerous cis lesbians. they all welcome trans people and respect my gfs pronouns and shit without question.

it's all so Tiresome okay

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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 19h

there's always this false idea (mostly touted by TERFs even) that lesbians are hyper exclusive and we need to invent new non-lesbian terms that "include trans people" or whatever as if lesbianism hasnt like. always done that

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 20h

Nooo not a silly post of mine breaking containment, I do not care about Obama conspiraciiiieeessss

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Diana @artemis-98.bsky.social · 22h

PSA: You are not an ally if you think trans kids shouldn't transition medically.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22h

Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 1d

sexuality discourse in fandom is hardly pressing but the whole thing is really fucking difficult as a lesbian (especially when you consider that artists and writers have been harassed and doxxed for “getting it wrong”) who likes art and media.

Lesbian is the “bi-erasure” sexuality to fandomites

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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 21h

Episode Four is now out wherever you get your podcasts!

Give it a listen for amusing discussions on made-up slurs, and much less amusing discussions on how a religious studies dissertation from the 70s was turned into a book whose transphobic policy prescriptions are largely followed today.

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SJ Kla-spooky (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 1d

It is always right and just to loathe anthropologists, we're a wretched class of know-it-alls who refuse to take people at their word in favour of our own pet theories.

Being a trans woman in anthropology is a fucking trip every time gender comes up though man it's SO bad.

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 1d

I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists I hate cis anthropologists

Muxes identify with lo femenino or
what is feminine and many dress in traditional female attire, but they are not gen-
erally seeking to be transgender, or to be accepted as women.

The gay men I interviewed were even more emphatic and quick to differentiate
themselves from muxes. Mario, an articulate twenty-four-year-old gay man, for
example, said that
For me a muxe is a man who identifies as a woman and likes to dress like a woman. I
am not muxe. I am gay because I have never wanted to dress like a woman or to be one.
They work in female trades. I know I am a man.

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Hm yes but they don't stink as powerfully

dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a more unpleasant smell of the not-obviously-disgusting variety than bubblegum

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get dicked around on a merry-go-round of absurd premises! Do not appeal to shame! I believe in u

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 1d

Classic mistake ppl make in the art of Talking To Idiots Online is they go "okay you believe Absurd Premise A. But would you also honestly claim a similar Absurder Premise B?" To which the other person of course just says "Yes!" and now congerts you're stuck arguing the sky isn't green with them

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 1d

And remember, this woman is trying to illegally (it's generally illegal for a third party to fund court cases here) export her brand of hatred to a country that has had problem-free self-id for ten years

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Are you based in the UK or Ireland?

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 2d

That’s... insane.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Ashley Heather Quills @voice-quills.com · 2d

VOICE ACTORS FOR PALESTINE IS BACK BABY!!!

Donate and get some voices lines/messages from me as:

Anya Mouthwashing, Raiden Revengeance, Patrick Star, SHODAN, Special Commander Haigos, and many more!

LET'S DO SOME FUNDRAISING Y'ALL

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 2d

happy international lesbian day

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dolphin diaries ⚢ @dolphindiaries.bsky.social · 2d

Good luck!!!!

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

turning the mundane horror of queer life into a dunk like it proves something

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

"queer person has homophobic family"

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 3d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

Chappell Roan Declares She's “Voting for Fucking Kamala Harris” Following Backlash

Recent quotes about the 2024 election and “problems on both sides” of government had fans saying H-O-T-T-oh no and led to dual clarification videos from Roan.

www.vanityfair.com

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 2d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 8
Spooky book recs

Here are a few indie books that are not only spooky, but ones I really enjoyed:
A Song for the Void by Andrew C Piazza
BestGhost by CJ Daley
Imago by Matthew Zakharuk @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Mystery of the Pale King by Sam Flynn @samflynnwrites.bsky.social

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 2d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 3d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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