Research Article
What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style
Jay SzpilkaORCID Icon
Received 20 May 2025, Accepted 29 Aug 2025, Published online: 11 Sep 2025
ABSTRACT
‘Puppygirls’ is a name for a particular kinky trans feminine lesbian style, rooted in the long history of trans erotic productions, and currently thriving on social media platforms, such as Twitter (now X), Bluesky, or Discord. In this article, I provide an analysis of the style that is rooted in personal immersion in ‘puppygirl culture’. Using several examples of puppygirl media productions, I argue for the possibility of reading the puppygirl style as a critical practice: one that hints at ways of being trans that do rely on the ciscentric understanding of ‘the human’ as their point of reference. In doing so, I show how puppygirl style resonates with theoretical interventions in the field of trans studies offered by scholars such as Susan Stryker and Talia Mae Bettcher.
I must inform you that feminist intellectuals are now writing scholarly articles analyzing trans lesbian puppygirls on social media.
published from Poland, of course!
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Excellent. The toxic yuri bundle that me (and tons of amazing authors) are part of, has cracked $3,000.
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Extremist left-winger
Catherine Connolly who said Israel behaved like
'terrorist state' and called
Hamas 'part of the civil society of Palestine' is confirmed as new Irish president at Dublin Castle after landslide triumph
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Xena x Callisto fanart from https://www.patreon.com/laurenknight Xena is standing over Callisto warning her to stay down. Callisto says “Gladly.”
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No kurwa iluś, już ci powiedziano, że miała inne wybory, po co udajesz głupszego niż jesteś
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Idiotą to ty jesteś pchając tak oczywiste kłamstwa i pucując gałę ruskim pacynkom
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whan she laughed mockingly on that question she became dead to me
like her waffling about different opinions was a bunch of corpo speak bulshit, but that mockery? fuck her forever
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he did what now
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Finally watched The Substance and I'm sitting here thinking how similar it is thematically to Promising Young Woman. Pretty colours disguising empty interiors, nominally feminist while treating all the female characters with contempt and disgust, punishing them merely for existing.
blargh
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A poll, commissioned by Equality Australia in the first quarter of 2025, found that:
• 86% agree or strongly agree that government and opposition should not politicise trans issues for political gain
• 89% agree or strongly agree that LGBT people deserve to live with dignity and respect
• 91% agree or strongly agree that trans people should have the freedom and choice to live their lives in the way that makes them happy
• 81% agree of strongly agree that trans people deserve the same rights and protections as other
Australians.
It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.
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Oh, I missed my 100th movie directed by a woman this year.
But I hit it on Where the Devil Roams, and it is a good movie to hit a milestone on.
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
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Baring it All
Where have all the condoms gone? What used to be well done in romance books now seems a little raw.
I have some thoughts on how condom use, and birth control in general, is declining in recent romance novels and the larger implications therein. (I also explain creampies. No, not the dessert.)
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin getting her comic cancelled for echoing this exact sentiment is *wildly* on-the-nose
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I will never get over how he said Nothing when Brianna Ghey was murdered
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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It is unequivocally a good thing that Charlie Kirk is dead.
It's like that old joke: What do you call one dead Nazi?
A good start.
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I actually have a really moderate take on border crossings, which is that I absolutely think Russians should be allowed to seek asylum in the EU, and that currently the barriers to doing so are far too high. What I do /not/ understand is the merit of permitting tourist visas.
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STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :)
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute
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Jesus christ.
I am so tired and so disappointed.
All these people went "yeah, I'll take an audio book paycheck over solidarity with trans lives, that's cool."
Every single one should be ashamed.
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Matt Berry has LITERALLY GIVEN INTERVIEWS ABOUT HIS SUPPORT OF TRANS PEOPLE AND HOW DISGUSTING HE THINKS TRANSPHOBES LIKE GLINNER ARE and he still took this fucking paycheck because "oh her work is so important to generations" and "I disagree with her"
Spineless.
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Fantasy
FANTASY
Between this and ai we are living in a time where art and creativity are actively being targeted and banned with the will to destroy it and artists
It’s a war against art and it goes hand in hand with fascism
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Twitter post: someone suggests that Vincent Van Gogh could have AI-generated The Starry Night and it would still be his art. A far smarter person points out that entering that prompt would NOT generate The Starry Night, "because the original wouldn't exist for the machine to fucking copy".
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