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"biological sex" is going to die as a natural given in the 21st century or human societies are going to die defending it. with the fascist ultranationalism resting upon a massive biopolitical reassertion, this is genuinely what the stakes feel like

but obviously, since the body exists in states of continuities, its not really just a set of "discrete" things to mix in the first place, either. which sort of circles back to the point i make in the limitations

transition care in general as the running example here - the vast majority of medical and surgical aspects still take place in a cisnormative / sexed world that assumes two naturalistic boxes and the least possible change, so it precludes, well, for lack of a better term, mixing and matching

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choices, *

communicative i.e. signalling in subculture). i think in this manner it helps to consider the person as an always moving subject who does not "stop" at one desire but keeps negotiating their conditions. "after the surgery" one is still living, and so how do they deal with social norms then, etc.

i don't disagree that people should always reflect on choices. but also idt neat separation between "doing something for yourself" and "doing something for others" insofar as desire is always overdetermined by social context (whether coerced i.e. patriarchal norms or

statement leans untrue, and ironically a capitalist mindset that sees the activity of art and language as a form of social play and communication between human beings as nothing more than totally coerced and would not exist without this coercion. it's a bit more complex than that

"if [social norm] did not exist people would never be compelled to dress a certain way or alter their bodies a certain way or so on" while it's of course true you can't neatly separate desire from the context/world that desire struggles through, and so norms influence desire, this as a blanket

alienation insofar as the narrow constraint silos the desire to change the flesh per one's own desire. so the annihilation of this alienation is not body naturalism but body autonomy, on a basis of art and conviviality.

i don't think there's a clear cut point where the flesh is holy and sacred. i think part of the concern of the instrumentalization of the body under capitalism positions the domain of altering flesh as part of alienation. but this is only an

the problem with altering your form isn't the act of altering your form, the problem with altering your form is that it is only permissible to do so within narrow ways e.g. racial/patriarchal norms or massive expenses. if these were gone, people should be free to change their body More, not less.

your work is fantastic. thank you for everything and i am so excited to see you continue to create art

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this just seems to me the more direct consequence of annihilating the federal government and its jurisdictions and implicitly ceding power to state governments, corporations, and unofficial paramilitaries

i am kind of doubtful that the united states will undergo a formal balkanization rather than a de facto "we are formally a federation but unofficially our state-alliances operate as sui generis sovereign polities that make economic/civic/military agreements w/ other sovereign nations" but who knows

britain and its settler colonies never had a real republican revolution. even the defiant child - the united states - claiming to be the global torchbearer of the liberal republic, has never had the guts to break its landowner-slaver-class and its institutions, and now the US is in freefall

*looking at the news* *banging my fist on my desk* 1848 in the u.s.a.! 1848 in the u.s.a. RIGHT NOW! dispossess the agro-gentry! burn the megachurches! one man one vote! freedom to abort freedom to sodomise freedom to divorce! emancipate the ghetto! teach the peasantry to read!

this manga is "yuri blue period but also a cooking manga but for tobacco" which is so funny to me

Something to note about all this is that none of this really amounts to net gains in jobs. The tech ideology driving all of this views any humans who arent shoveling capital into this furnace as useless eaters

john money saying that transsexuals were "devious, demanding, and manipulative" and "possibly incapable of love" is pretty much proof that we're women, not in a misogynistic way, but bc transmisogynists talk about us with tropey memey cartoon misogyny and they genuinely mean it

Trans lesbians are the coolest people. Imagine loving women so much you become one, absolutely based

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

dont worry everyone there are no industrial cycles in capitalism

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this fashion design c4t yuri stuff gets serious

miki did feel anything for anyone till she met tao

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