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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

The End.

Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

namely that struggles for trans liberation were primarily a distraction (or at the very least subordinate to) the communist revolution. Leslie Feinberg declined to repeat that and gave what seemed like a really smart and nuanced answer I wish I could remember more than 20 years later but I can’t.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

Fast forward a year or two and I went with some friends to see Leslie Feinberg speak, and this same guy was there (actually with a queer teenager I knew who was in the same communist group he was) and he asked LF a question trying to get hir to repeat, in very specific language, his thoughts,

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

who should leave 16 year old trans girls alone (which led to a house meeting and me not sleeping over there anymore, whoops).

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

At the time I was already a (non theoretical, entirely instinctual) anarchist, so while I didn’t do the best job getting out of the conversation promptly or have access to any theory to tell him he wasn’t even right from a communist perspective, I did tell him he was an asshole and a creep

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

Except he didn’t! He wanted to lecture me about how trans people didn’t matter on any real scale (an argument I had heard at my job from an older hippie guy explaining why he wasn’t going to try to get my pronouns right), and specifically about how trans people were a bourgeois perversion.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 1d

(This is a personal story and not an opinion about the topic of the week)
When I was 16 in Chicago I spent some nights sleeping in a Lesbian Avenger’s room in a co-op house. One night I got up to get water and ran into this twenty something cis guy grad student. He wanted to ask me something.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 2d

When I read it I kind of assumed (as an Italian American, which she is too), that she was talking to Italian Americans in particular.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 2d

I get this… My Italian grandparents couldn’t speak English yet when they named their first born son “Peter” after Peter Jennings because they were trying to learn from TV. That might make me feel weird, or sad, or whatever… but it was also a strategy they chose and could choose.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

You’re welcome! I plan to read your other book eventually, and this conversation turned into a nice random reminder. :) have a good day!

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

That smiley face was my very weird way of saying exactly! Haha. PS Birding was really great!

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

:)

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

This is also why I love the teens in my life so hard (although my youngest kid is about to leave the teen years), and seeing people’s pictures of earlier years of whatever age. I’m so glad people (generally) make it out of adolescence! It’s really often way too hard

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t even read horror right now because my life is too anxiety provoking (temporarily), BUT you know I’ve got my preorder in. This is obviously going to be awesome

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 5d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, thanks! That was my purse for most of that time period (I also had a larger one for days when I had to carry more). That thrift store fur coat was ummmm not a very good fur coat and my hair was very asymmetrical under that hat but I am very fond of teenage me. She got me here! ;)

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 3d

Post you from a different era

Okay, sure… teenage Katie, maybe 1998 or 99.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 8d

The other issues are really cool too (maybe you’ve already seen them)

Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 17d

At this point no matter what I’m seeing there, I’m there forty minutes early if at all possible ;) I have seat preferences and if you’re a group of more than two people… you gotta be early! Luckily it’s fun to hang out and talk beforehand. And so nice to see movies with a real crowd.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 17d

I’m lucky to have so many great theaters here :) I’ll revisit your article after I see it :)

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 17d

I’ve got tickets to see it in 70MM at @hollywoodtheatre.org :)

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 20d

It’s going to show at @cstpdx.bsky.social

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · 24d

I tried to move from Portland after 15 years and went to Los Angeles for a couple years… six months in I was desperate to go back ;) so glad to have settled back in in Portland.

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · Sep 8

Either GLOW or the Riches

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Katie Kaput @katiekaput.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had this on a vhs that I think I ordered from kill rock stars most likely. Thanks for sharing this clip

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 29

Can we maybe try and talk to Wachowskis into taking a crack at a Jem and the Holograms movie? The 2015 one tried to be “realistic,“ and that is ridiculous. Jem needs the Speed Racer treatment.

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