Emory Echo Trans Historian 🏳️‍⚧️

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

My girlfriend while we wait at the Valvoline: “That’s the job I want: oil gremlin.”

I mean, PLEASE connect me with the Danish historians!

In discussing with coworkers today how English seems to lack language to describe hoe persistently and utterly exhausted the last 3 months have left me in all aspects, we finally came up with a term that captures it.

I am bleached. Divested of color and vibrancy through caustic outside influence.

Love you so much, hun.

Otroligt att, som en historiker, jag tänkte aldrig på just den här punkten! I vissa sett så är det ju mycket bättre nu än förut. Det är ju synd att det kommer med så mycket hat mot oss transpersoner, men ändå är det någonting att fira!

Even beyond the massive impact that this fundraiser has in supporting trans rights, the fact that my favorite MTG creator has chosen to use his platform to support people like me overwhelms me in ways I cannot begin to articulate.
I am so grateful to the MTG community for being my home for so long.

Thank you for doing this. This fundraiser will help so many in my community, myself included.

I have a little micro library in my home, and every time a guest checks out one of my trans* studies books, my heart gets a little lighter.

In using this quote I want to also acknowledge that Marilyn Frye is in many ways deeply problematic in her takes of transness. At the same time, I do appreciate this quote for the way it highlights some of the roots of trans misogyny.

They see themselves in us, and our objectification makes them fear it could happen to them if they fall outside the borders of masculinity. Rather than deal with that fear, they hate us all the louder in public, while craving us all the more behind closed doors. 2/2

Quote saying “To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

This is why trans misogyny is so violent: we are viewed as feminine sex objects that can be fetishized, while simultaneously rejecting our place in the male homo-romantic patriarchy. In the eyes of cishet men, we transform into that which they use, while reminding them of that which they love. 1/2

#history #transhistory #queerhistory #translivesmatter #transactivism #transgender #queer #queerlivesmatter #deathbeforedetransition #historian

We can’t know the future, or if things will be as bad as they were in Nazi Germany, or during the Lavender Panic, but if so, make it impossible to erase you. Make it so future generations know your story. Make your ghost haunt the legacies of the monsters who worked to destroy you.

If you don’t already, start a journal, be it written, typed, drawn or audio. Honestly document your experiences, feelings, and the world around you. Let loved ones know where you keep your story and their backups —side note: if you can, back shit up!— so if the worst happens, they will survive. 2/?

A reminder to trans folks: with the ramp up of government erasure of trans documents and data, it’s SO important to remember that one thing they can’t easily erase is your story. I don’t mean that in a metaphorical, “you’re valid” kind of way. I mean it literally.

Record your experiences. 1/?

We can’t know the future, or if things will be as bad as they were in Nazi Germany, or during the Lavender Panic, but if so, make it impossible to erase you. Make it so future generations know your story. Make your ghost haunt the legacies of the monsters who worked to destroy you.

If you don’t already, start a journal, be it written, typed, drawn or audio. Honestly record your experiences, your feelings, and the world around you. Let loved ones know where you keep your story and their backups —side note: if you can, back shit up!— so if the worst happens, they will survive.

No matter how many times I do it, I always get so excited and nervous before conducting an oral history interview. There’s something beautifully sacred about facilitating someone sharing their life experiences.

#oralhistory #transhistory #queerhistory #history #historian

As familiar as I am with how craven, honorless, and self-serving she is, even I didn't expect Brianna Wu to agitate for locking up trans activists.

I'd spit on her name, but it'd be a waste of spit. This is just plain evil.

My friend to me: “the fear of your [ttrpg] players may feed you, but it will not help you grow tits. Go eat something.”

You own books because you think they look pretty on your shelf, and because you like the feel of paper. I own books because I have a compulsive need to write notes in the margins that I will likely never refer back to.

We are not the same.

Your tireless work to summarize the bills has kept me from anxiously and compulsively scanning the legislation listings all month. You are my hero.

Ecstatic to share my newest (& fav!) pub: "Trans Sex Work in Colonial North America: A Herstory" 💗

It traces the phenomenological link between trans femininity & sex work across time, zooming in on three micro-histories of trans women from 1650 to 1840.

You can find it here: t.co/569TBIXXQl

Cannot recommend highly enough. It is a fantastic agreed, and easily one of the strongest pieces of trans and/or internet history I’ve read to date.

Plus, on a completely unrelated note, Avery is an absolute pleasure of a human being, so there’s also that.

There’s nothing better than when your job asks “hey, how would you feel about spending three or four days pouring through records at the Oregon historical Society archives?”

Truly my happy place. 🥰

I know the feeling. This week has been monstrous for that. May we both be able to change out of our dysphoria hoodies sometime soon.

I am SO happy to hear about the progress on book three, I’ve been dying to know what happens next!

Awwwwwwww!