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The White Lotus, TERFs, and “Autogynephilia” as a Floating Signifier

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Lazy bunny @lazybunnies.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone. Julia serano is required reading. Whipping girl specifically recommended by seriously just check out her work. #books #videos #essays #transrights #politics #feminism #reading

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

part of a 🧵 full of recent essays & videos to check out!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6d

...another video: most discussions of Transvestigation presume that *the rest of us* see gender & trans ppl “normally” or “correctly.” & frankly, that's not true at all! a deep-dive into the unconscious process of gender perception & what happens when we dismantle it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6l...

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Lazy bunny @lazybunnies.bsky.social · 3d

Agp is gross

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10d

...this essay uncovers GC/TERF's "grand unified theory" of transness, which hinges on "AGP/autogynephilia" functioning as a floating signifier that represents anything they want it to mean...
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/the-white-lo...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-white-...

plus their “grand unified theory” of transness

The White Lotus, TERFs, and “Autogynephilia” as a Floating Signifier

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d

part of a 🧵 full of recent essays & videos to check out!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10d

...this essay uncovers GC/TERF's "grand unified theory" of transness, which hinges on "AGP/autogynephilia" functioning as a floating signifier that represents anything they want it to mean...
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/the-white-lo...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-white-...

plus their “grand unified theory” of transness

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 3d

If, as you get older, you find yourself thinking that "kids today" are lazy or entitled or unwilling to work or just generally deficient in some special way they weren't when you "were that age," congratulations! You're not just an old human being, you're one of the oldest stereotypes in history.

Fortune @fortune.com · 3d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d

part of a 🧵 full of recent essays & videos to check out!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

...this video examines the many ways in which the straight majority sexualizes LGBTQIA+ people, the central role that stigma & imagined “contagiousness” plays in their stereotypes of us, plus how past “gay rights” activism has largely sidestepped this important issue:
youtu.be/2tq66YS5Kus

Why Do Straight People Sexualize Queer People? LGBTQ+ Stereotypes, Sexualization & “Contagiousness”

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

a lot of my recent videos & essays are shared in this 🧵 (scroll up). pls check them out! & if you enjoy them you can follow & support my work on Patreon!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

due to time constraints, gonna stop there. but you can check out the other essays & videos on my update: mailchi.mp/b02ec62cc347...
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano

creating Writings!

Why Does “Transvestigation” Happen? On Gendering, Ungendering, and (Mis)Perceiving Trans People

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

part of a 🧵 full of recent essays & videos to check out!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6d

...another video: most discussions of Transvestigation presume that *the rest of us* see gender & trans ppl “normally” or “correctly.” & frankly, that's not true at all! a deep-dive into the unconscious process of gender perception & what happens when we dismantle it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6l...

www.youtube.com

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

a lot of my recent videos & essays are shared in this 🧵 (scroll up). pls check them out! & if you enjoy them you can follow & support my work on Patreon!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

due to time constraints, gonna stop there. but you can check out the other essays & videos on my update: mailchi.mp/b02ec62cc347...
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano

creating Writings!

Mid central vowel - Wikipedia

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Well, Newsom has a great opportunity to help homeless trans people right now by signing a bill that would help combat anti-LGBTQ discrimination in state homelessness programs that we reported on, AB 678!

And many other bills that help all trans people. Go yell at him!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 4d

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d

Gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

you can copy it, either from my post above or from this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_cen.... I have never typed it out myself

en.wikipedia.org

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

due to time constraints, gonna stop there. but you can check out the other essays & videos on my update: mailchi.mp/b02ec62cc347...
& if you appreciate that I make work like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano

creating Writings!

Why Do Straight People Sexualize Queer People? LGBTQ+ Stereotypes, Sexualization & “Contagiousness”

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Hunter Felt @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 4d

"Furthermore, if men (especially marginalized men) can be sexualized as 'sexual predators' and women as 'sexual objects,' then people who are construed as being 'in between' or 'combinations of both' genders (e.g., trans and intersex people) may be sexualized in both ways simultaneously." Yes!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

...this video examines the many ways in which the straight majority sexualizes LGBTQIA+ people, the central role that stigma & imagined “contagiousness” plays in their stereotypes of us, plus how past “gay rights” activism has largely sidestepped this important issue:
youtu.be/2tq66YS5Kus

Jesse Singal's “When Children Say They’re Trans” piece: resources & a response | Julia Serano

youtu.be

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 4d

People like Bluesky Jay and Matt Y are too clever by half sometimes. It's all fun and games to them because their lives aren't being threatened.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

since Matt Y is now calling Singəl's 2018 Atlantic piece "mild-mannered", this piece chronicles 1) how despite its anodyne veneer, it was actual very slanted, 2) he hid the fact that many of the families & detrans ppl he interviewed were actually anti-trans activists
www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-...

Why Do Helen Lewis, Victoria Smith, and Other “Gender Critical” Activists Lie About My Work?

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

...this essay chronicles Helen Lewis using & debating AI hallucinations of my work & Victoria Smith inventing vile lies about me. Why? Because that's what "gender critical" activists do:
on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/why-do-helen...
& Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/why-do-hel...

I have been writing about feminism (and other topics related to sex, gender, sexuality, sexism, and social justice) for about 25 years now…

Jesse Singal's “When Children Say They’re Trans” piece: resources & a response | Julia Serano

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CautionWIP - FREE LINK - (in specially marked boxes) 👍 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 🇨🇦 @noncompliant.bsky.social · 5d

This is just one in the thread, and all the entries (as it were) are worth a read/viewing.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI (part of a 🧵)!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

...this video examines the many ways in which the straight majority sexualizes LGBTQIA+ people, the central role that stigma & imagined “contagiousness” plays in their stereotypes of us, plus how past “gay rights” activism has largely sidestepped this important issue:
youtu.be/2tq66YS5Kus

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

yes they did, I link to them all here: www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-...

Jesse Singal's “When Children Say They’re Trans” piece: resources & a response | Julia Serano

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 4d

since Matt Y is now calling Singəl's 2018 Atlantic piece "mild-mannered", this piece chronicles 1) how despite its anodyne veneer, it was actual very slanted, 2) he hid the fact that many of the families & detrans ppl he interviewed were actually anti-trans activists
www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-...

Why Do Straight People Sexualize Queer People? LGBTQ+ Stereotypes, Sexualization & “Contagiousness”

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5d

If you're doing overzealous things like putting an adult content label on Kate Bush or banning people for ill-wishing JK Rowling it's going to be very difficult to get people to accept there's nothing to be done about a user who announced his intent to use the platform to harass people.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

👇 bsky.app/profile/shau...

shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 6d

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI (part of a 🧵)!

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 5d

...this video examines the many ways in which the straight majority sexualizes LGBTQIA+ people, the central role that stigma & imagined “contagiousness” plays in their stereotypes of us, plus how past “gay rights” activism has largely sidestepped this important issue:
youtu.be/2tq66YS5Kus