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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 1d

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

NO LITERALLY. Like this exact thing happens all the goddamn time in the US the author just doesn't know about it because he has never spoken to a trans woman before I guess

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

I've read a little bit

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

bsky.app/profile/drag...

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

Oh by the way, for extra context: the paper that I've been taking all these screenshots from is "Hombres Mujeres: An Indigenous Third Gender" by Alfredo Mirandé. IT'S FROM 2016. TWENTY FUCKING SIXTEEN.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

bsky.app/profile/drag...

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

Oh by the way, for extra context: the paper that I've been taking all these screenshots from is "Hombres Mujeres: An Indigenous Third Gender" by Alfredo Mirandé. IT'S FROM 2016. TWENTY FUCKING SIXTEEN.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

Oh fuck it's gone viral, quick everyone go and buy my book. It's a folklore-inspired dark fantasy whose protagonist is a trans dragon

books2read.com/u/mKMan9

The cover of the book Chained Flame by Saffron Drake, featuring a painting-style image of an enormous dragon facing off against a human warrior. The dragon's expression is one of intense regret.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

Oh by the way, for extra context: the paper that I've been taking all these screenshots from is "Hombres Mujeres: An Indigenous Third Gender" by Alfredo Mirandé. IT'S FROM 2016. TWENTY FUCKING SIXTEEN.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

This is a strange, unique, non-Western way of seeing gender that is totally different from anything else.
*describes the sexual mores of the average citizen of Ancient Rome*

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

Oh there's a whole fucking section in this about how strange and exotic it is that "hombres" can have anal sex and still be seen as masculine and straight as long as they top.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 8h

I just did a control-f search on the word "transgender" and they literally only bring up the concept as a contrast to describe Western modes of doing gender that actually reify the patriarchal system or whatever the fuck

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

Oh you mean how "muxe" is clearly derived from the spanish word for "woman" no it doesn't come up even once.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

I could send you the whole paper, it's insane how the paper describes in exacting detail the exact kinds of social structures that arise around straight trans women in patriarchal societies and then goes "this is an incredible deconstruction of gender by these non-transgender third gender non-women"

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

After reading this, the prof showed us a documentary featuring one of the muxe interviewees literally saying "I want to be a woman, I just don't *feel* like one"

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

"Muxes are not to be confused with transgender women"
*describes chasers word-for-word*

Felina linked the popularity and acceptance of muxes to the importance of virgi-
nity in Juchita ́n, which means that men do not generally have a sexual outlet. Things
are changing, but muxes continue to play an important role in providing a sexual out-
let for young men. Men simply see sex with muxes as a way to satisfy their sexual
needs and nothing more. Los hombres do not see themselves as gay because they
separate the sex act from their sexual orientation and because they assume the active
role in sex. Many men are therefore able to have sex with muxes and also be in rela-
tionships with women, but they generally do not want people to find out about it. At
the time of the interview, Felina worked as an AIDS Information Advisor. Her formal
title was Director of Sexual Diversity for the Municipio of Juchita ́n, which is part of
her political involvement as an Intre ́pida, but she makes her living as a hairstylist.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 10h

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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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

Swedish Chef in the movie poster for The Menu.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 1d

Ya girl pinched a nerve in her hand a couple of days ago so that it now hurts to type on a computer… but not to write with a pencil. I’ve been rendered analog

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Foo Midori -碧風羽 @foomidori.bsky.social · 2d

サイレントヒルfのファンアートを描きました

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a week and somehow I'm still pissed about Hades 2. How dare you invoke the specter of a badass, canonically queer woman and then undermine her so thoroughly. Fuck.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 2d

I'm fairly certain this one was written by cishets!

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 2d

20-page document about indigenous "third gender" systems and yet mysteriously there's been exactly one sentence that isn't about "feminine men dressing in women's clothes who married men and took on sexually submissive roles"

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 2d

Off to a fantastic start with this assertion on the fourth page of the assigned reading,,,

While many transgender persons believe that they are radically altering
the gender binary, most are in fact directly and indirectly supporting or reifying the very system they are seeking to change (Gagne ́, Tewksbury, and McGaughey 1997),5 supporting West and Zimmerman’s (2009) assertion that it is impossible to undo gender and that attempts to change and subvert the gender binary only work to reinforce it.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 2d

OH FUCK IT’S THIRD GENDER WEEK IN THE INTRO-LEVEL ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 4d

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