Hi @fiercemum.bsky.social! I am so grateful for your thesis on cis supremacy! I thought about that for quite some time and was positively surprised to discover your work in the few results of my then google search. Thanks! 🥰

Classic epistemicide under the guise of "active interest" and "actual care".

I still actively remember my days in academia where so many "research focuses" were actually mostly performative—especially in the humanities. Finding people really caring about a topic was actually quite rare.

This distinction is so useful! I am sadly not surprised that it didn't get traction. Hypotheses as to why:
▪︎  It doesn't make sense for most people for which their lived sex is already aligned with their subconscious one
▪︎  It fundamentally complicates the relationship between sex and gender, ...

This is actually sadly not recent. Viviane Namaste already wrote in 2000 how “queer” theorists actually erased transsexual lives/needs

For intellectuals and gender theorists “revolutionaries”, we mostly exist as intellectual curiosities or useful pieces on their checkboard against “patriarchy”.

It’s a classical in-group bias. In this closed-system moral economy, privilege has to give in somewhere for the system to change.

In the meantime, AMABs carry the unprocessed shame of the system 😪

In many aspects, cisfeminism is fundamentally built on the shared assumption that *AFAB-coded people possess an ontological moral superiority or supremacy because of their AFABness*.

This 100% highlights one of the places where *patriarchy* and most of the feminist ethos perfectly intersects. I am speaking of course of *ontological female innocence*, which is upstream from most of the subtle/not-so-subtle prevalent moral superiority/supremacy of AFAB-coded people 💁🏻‍♀️🔫🤯