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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 5h

Genuinely stunned we hit top 50 before we even announced part 2

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 5h

RCBG is now in the top 50 stories in the Transgender category on Scribblehub! Thanks to everyone who's read it so far, and we've got some fun news coming soon!

Scribblehub thumbnail for the serial "Ranked Competitive Breast Growth", ranked #50 with 271.9k views in the Transgender category

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 12h

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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sabriel is so spooky @droningg.bsky.social · 11h

Talia said it better:
bsky.app/profile/tali...

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Feb 9

Once you understand third-sexing as a core part of patriarchal society, enabling cis men to consume sexual commodities without risking their own position in the gender heirarchy, this stuff clicks into place.

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sabriel is so spooky @droningg.bsky.social · 11h

it's a 4chan thing that won't go away, and the culture around it was and remains horrendous and very anti trans. term is diluted these days but it still creeps me out to see people self identify that way.
bsky.app/profile/dron...

sabriel is so spooky @droningg.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you really want to get yelled at you can mention how femboy culture is a system of modern day pederasty designed to silo young effeminate boys and trans girls away from self actualization and community support in order to turn them into safe, sexual commodities for patriarchal exploitation.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 1d

my nonbinary ass with my girlfriends nonbinary ass finding out we arent lesbians anymore or something and we have to use some new term: what

like idk there seems to be so much mind poison about lesbian discourse because someone took a redditor too seriously at some point in their life

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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 1d

i don't know i see so much discourse about lesbians that i never even really hear from lesbians it kind of drives me insane.

like the narrative that "well sapphic includes nonbinary people because they can't be lesbians" i've seen over and over has blown my mind countless times

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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 1d

me always: i love bi and pan women in my spaces, i love trans women too. i also love and hang out with trans men

non-lesbians: (not listening and also talking over me about how i am to other non-lesbians)

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

and ofc the people pushing "we need to be hyperexclusionary towards bi/trans women in lesbian spaces" are overwhelmingly not lesbians, but lesbians take the flak for it

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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 1d

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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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 10d

Link to an actual good, feminist podcast that's co-hosted by a trans woman of color, and which doesn't charge people to guest on it. bsky.app/profile/crac...

Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 15d

Talia and Emma dissect 'The Transsexual Empire', a foundational text for the GC movement. They discuss the history of radical lesbian feminism, the embattled discourse over trans women's place in it, and the way trans-exclusionary 'radfems' codified a feminist pretext for bigotry.

Early on Patreon!

Episode 4: Sister Raymond's Transmisogyny Bible. Raymond's 'The Transsexual Empire' | Cracked Ivory

Get more from Cracked Ivory on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 8d

I find Cracked Ivory an excellent way to 'do the reading' when you're—like me—too bimbo-brained to actually wrestle with academia. You get a lot of laughs plus enough tidbits that you can hold your own in a conversation about Raymond (without going "oh, the smug cat villager in Animal Crossing?")

Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 15d

Talia and Emma dissect 'The Transsexual Empire', a foundational text for the GC movement. They discuss the history of radical lesbian feminism, the embattled discourse over trans women's place in it, and the way trans-exclusionary 'radfems' codified a feminist pretext for bigotry.

Early on Patreon!

Episode 4: Sister Raymond's Transmisogyny Bible. Raymond's 'The Transsexual Empire' | Cracked Ivory

Get more from Cracked Ivory on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 7d

anyway people should listen to @crackedivorypod.bsky.social it's a good podcast, even if it doesn't bring up Resident Evil as often as they indicate they might. They haven't even talked about how transmisogynistic Code Veronica is, smdh. But other than that, good podcast

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Gab @gabjet.bsky.social · 8d

Listening to the Cracked Ivory podcast and it's pretty good, although I'm slightly confused about why the hosts keep calling themselves Resident Evil lesbians. RE hasn't even come up yet across the first couple episodes. When are they gonna talk about Jill x Rebecca??

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punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · 6d

drawings of Emmy and Laura from Ranked Competitive Breast Growth. i love you butch lesbian gendo ikari and your freak girlfriend #RCBG

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

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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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 1d

yeah its wild how much 'bi-erasure' has been repurposed as a way to call lesbians The Real Bigots without getting called on being lesbophobic. like i'm not sure ive ever seen a man accused of bi-erasure. it's always lesbians, and that goes for outside fandom spaces as well.

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

and again, as someone who likes to engage in art and media, including popular shit it’s so ridiculous to just not be able to call a character or couple you like a lesbian or lesbian couple. it’s isolating. it’s alienating.

it can even be unsafe to argue why you think a character is lesbian. sucks

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

can be sexualized (as they are in real life. a man negging a woman is “banter”).

so unless writers or creators explicitly say that a character is a lesbian, you can’t actually call her that without people breathing down your neck that actually you’re erasing bisexuals. it’s exhausting

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

and like, it’s easy right? it’s difficult to prove a negative. heterosexuality is the default. so if a character ends up with or has a tragic relationship with a woman in a piece of media (but nothing with men) it’s much, much, much safer to call her bisexual.

even negative interactions with men…

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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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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

If my dead lover showed up wearing my clothes I'd break down sobbing, not be mildly outraged

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Faye Dawnseer - STREAMING ERA @maverik6464.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight gay people, I just slaughtered the entirety of Hades Calculus in like. 14 hours. That's a really fucking good book. Thank you Amber for posting about it and getting me interested cos I haven't absorbed a book like that since Gideon the Ninth

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