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Every time I hear about a liberal pro-natalist, I look to see if they've written or spoken against coercive fertility limitation in the criminal legal system, and unsurprisingly none of them have!

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

since I see ppl posting pictures from a pseudoscience convention this morn, I will re-up this. Blanchard's theory of autogynephilia (read: his taxonomy & etiology) have been disproved by multiple research studies (see my reviews here):
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Something I always notice about 'liberal' pro-natalists is that they want more births, but are averse to opposing coercive fertility limitations (eg in the criminal legal system).
Liberal or conservative, it's entirely about *who* is allowed to, or forced to, have and raise their own children.

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging population that could begin to shrink.

Talking about birth rate panic and referencing pro-natalist agendas without talking about eugenics and *who* these people think should be having kids is an interesting editorial decision.

i regret to inform you that you will simply never be able to craft a coherent vision of queer liberation without feminism, no matter how much you want to leave women out of your visions of a sexually free world

sexual violence is THE key operative mechanism of patriarchal enforcement & regulation of bodies, "penetrability," and sexuality/the heterosexual regime. queer oppression is more than thwarted desire. sexual freedom must begin with body autonomy & freedom from coercion

louise michel, an anarchist woman involved in the paris commune, was among the first (that we know of) to explicitly name the black flag as a symbol of anarchism. the story goes that she used a black petticoat as a flag in an 1883 demonstration of starving workers. i love that. a woman's underskirt

I wish our language didn't use the same phrase to refer to both a box of supplies and a modern foundling wheel.

Guardian article aside, feminist criticism of pornography isn't new or right wing. The motivation is to contain violence against women. Conservative sexual politics are about women being sexually subjugated by men.

Feminism’s criticism of men’s violence against women & the sexualisation of men’s violence exists wholly apart from religious right criticism of porn, not least because elements of the right believe in dismantling protections against MVAWG

It’s a semantic point but choking is when the windpipe is obstructed from the inside, i.e. with a piece of food. What this is referring to is called strangulation.

I don't think any of the 27 dead children voted for Trump

Don’t for one second, not one millisecond, say babies drowning in Texas is justified because of their parent’s vote.

Jesus Christ. Be better.

A modest proposal:

Every major news organization should have a full-time trans writer on staff who gets to write about trans issues.

they do this and then they publish "research" about how these tribes are so sexually enlightened they see csa as harmless and normal, if only those feminist prudes hadn't ruined everyone's fun with bourgeois moralism we could be so enlightened too etc, then that research becomes standard citation

rinse and repeat forever until every single paper on history or anthropology of childhood has to begin with "childhood is a social construct so who can say if sexual abuse is really all that bad?" or else it won't get published

(I'm no expert, I'm sure it's complicated, but I also know that a lot of parents hate their kids and judges do whatever they want, so judicial approval and parental consent don't really offer protection.

Also, marriage alone doesn't necessarily emancipate a minor in all states...)

In Tennessee, a minor can marry at 17 with parental consent, but the other party cannot be more than 4 years older. Similar in OH but judicial consent is required.

New Mexico allows pregnant children under 16 to marry a partner w/o age restrictions, even though the age of consent is 16...

From what I see of Texas in the news, it looks like a fascist hellhole, but they are ahead of states like California, Illinois, Hawaii, & New Mexico.

In Hawaii parents can marry off a 15 year old to an adult, but some red states at least have a MMA of 17 and protections like minimum age gaps.

Child marriage is legal in 35 US states, but it's interesting how the laws don't map neatly onto a red state/blue state divide.

California has no minimum marriage age, where Texas only allows 16 & 17 year olds to marry if they are emancipated, and there's bipartisan support to close that loophole.

"feminism is about choices and my choice is to be loudly acephobic, biphobic, and lesbophobic. I'm a sex positive ally by the way." - the average liberal cis straight woman I run into online (at least that's what it feels like lately)

"You can't have a litmus test for who can be a feminist"

I can and I will.

How are you going to dismantle patriarchy without being pro-abortion, anti-rape, and pro-LGBTQIA+, ESPECIALLY pro-trans rights in this environment?

Screenshot from Bust Magazine article titled 'Our Hearts Are With All Who Defend Abortion Access in MN and Beyond,' dated June 20, 2025. The introduction reflects on a heavy week and expresses solidarity with the community supporting abortion access.

On our latest Bust Magazine blog, we’re raging and grieving in this heavy week of news. An elected official who stood for reproductive freedom was shot and killed. Abortion providers were named on a hit list.

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone.”

Audre Lorde

Once I had a friend who was friends with Gayle Rubin, and she kept bringing up how unfair the world had been to Gayle Rubin, and finally I was like “Because of the pro-pedophilia stuff?” And she was like “yeah, it was so unfair of them to come after her for that.”

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

Justice Barrett, joined by Thomas, slams the door on another pathway to challenge laws that discriminate against trans people: the claim that trans people are a quasi-suspect class.

did you know that the public discourse around "how can we reform straight men into having a healthy positive masculinity (that isn't too faggy)" and "how can we reform heterosexuality" is in fact the same discourse that serves as the good cop to the bad cop of andrew tate and camille paglia

i'm kind of convinced atp that humankind will not be on the path to freedom until the day cis+heteronormativity is abandoned. until that happens we will have to deal with eternal legal challenges to women, queer+trans ppl, and also 300 articles/yr about "how can we make het sex Erotic again"

and im really not talking about increased suicide risk liberals love to harp about here. historically, the places you had to go for transition medicine without prescription, the trades you were pushed into to afford uncovered surgeries, the learned aversion to trained doctors -- these are dangerous