Mumbling Queer

stop forcing your consent kink on me bro. thats noncon bro

Dialectical Feminism: An Unburial Theory May Peterson published a post on Ko-fi

May Peterson should be required reading

ko-fi.com/post/Dialect...

It's a really good essay!

I have a moment every time I remember more than 5 people have read The Hades Calculus cos if you really think about it, the book is pretty niche. Devi and I believe in our writing of course but this book appeals to a very specific set of (excellent, to be clear) tastes.

That Way Lies Sorrow: Notes from a Nonbinary Transsexual A meditation on manhood, medicalization, and metamorphosis.

Them's the essay if you're curious, but you don't need to read it for this thread per se: thirdsexedinsurrection.substack.com/p/that-way-l...

YouTube video by Louise Weard castration movie anthology i. traps (trailer)

castration movie anthology

chapter i. incel superman
chapter ii. traps swan princess

available now ~ louiseweard.gumroad.com/l/castration...

youtu.be/2NsKOWWrARI?...

I have finished my article on Transandrophobia Vs. Transemasculation and all the ways that I believe transandrophobia as a theory fails transmasculine people. I also express how I see Transemasculation as something that can spawn a new and better theory.

open.substack.com/pub/corviddu...

This is a thorough and insightful examination of issues I've seen haunt transmascs & their communities

Really cool to see a trans man tackle this from a feminist perspective! Looking forward to reading more from Isaac

In case anyone thought I was joking about the patricide . . .

READ the ONLY book that The Transfeminine Review called "...a stunningly miserable portrait of the future"!

YouTube video by Angela Collier the malicious optimism of AI-first companies

youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE

This is so good

"The result is a masculinity that is new, a form that discards that which cannot survive (rigidity, natalism, war glory, the Y chromosome)."

Oh, I'm hooked.

Psychogeography, by Anti-Spectacular 10 track album

by this time next month ninety-odd percent of posts here will be politics. some will be righteous and some will be loud frequent cringe but this is what's goin down. so meanwhile you gotta listen to fuckin excellent music like this truly wild record anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? We would rather talk about literally everything else.

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

Reflecting on the Affective Dimensions of the “Transamorous Man” Backlash BY FLORENCE ASHLEY

Florence Ashley’s response really nailed the bitterness of it all imo.

www.tsqnow.online/post/reflect...

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Please encourage your moots and favourite artists to enable the mandatory alt text requirement setting where possible!

A lot of people, myself included, won't share others' posts when it isn't present.

For those that struggle there are the hashtags #alt4me and #alt4you that can help 😊💚

"But maybe gender is more complicated too, and here is where I want to argue for a critical radical feminism, one that recognizes that gender is a sex-class system, but not only that. Yes we are born into gender, assigned to positions of relative power and powerlessness that deeply influence what happens next ("It's a girl!" "It's a boy!"). These relations are material through and through, meaning they are meant to determine who does what kind of work, who has what kinds of power. Ask my students, I torture them with this. But first, even this structured power is crossed and vexed by other structures of power (most obviously race and class) QUoted from the linked article.

Second, we also live, we also negotiate and take up and resist and contest or affirm these strucutres in complex ways and sometimes deeply individual, creative and unique ways. Gender as a lived reality doesn't always perfectly follow the path of power that gender as a sex-class system outlines. For example, to be a "boy" who resists his gender assignation is to experience punishment, not privilege, in most contexts. I think that to be assigned a gender is to be assigned a way of having a world. I think a lot of us don't manage to feel at home in that assignation, we push back, we suffer through it, we make fun of it, we live it in resistant ways. Maybe trans folk aren't at home in the way of having a world that is assigned to them. Maybe it becomes unbearable. Maybe one seeks a way of living, a way of having a world that is bearable. Maybe we actually ahve something in common here. Third, gender is a structure of the imaginary domain that reflects, but also exceeds gender as sex-class system. Maybe gender takes on a life of its own in the imaginary domain that both reflects relations of power, invests desire and affect and moral convictions with/in power and also sometimes twists free of power in certain spaces, at certain times, fleeting and illusive as these moments and spaces may be.

Apologies for jumping in, but I saw no one else had yet.

Bonnie Mann's open letter to Lierre Keith is something a friend had me read recently. A radical feminist arguing that gender is a sex-class system, but not reducible to a sex-class system.

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"what if katie reads books" this could be a huge arc to look forward to in 2025

YOU KISS LIKE A ROCKET by MissJuniper A Mecha Novella of Romance, Sad Women, and Crossed Blades

I've written YOU KISS LIKE A ROCKET! missjuniper.itch.io/you-kiss-lik...
Two trans mech pilots are set out to hunt each other down at the edge of the solar system. Dueling, fistfights, and a kiss ensues.
Or: two trans girls find they love each other; five dead, seven mechs destroyed

My first book was on the history of French psychiatry in North Africa. What they did in colonial settings was arguably even worse than what they did in Europe/N America press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

If you are an archivist you should read this. It's so rare to see labor and expertise of archivists acknowledged let alone celebrated that I might have cried a little

Ophie Dokie hi! I'm Ophie I'm a feminist and a lesbian and I wanna talk about some stuff

I've haven't posted much about Blake Lively specifically because I know almost nothing about the situation, & want to educate myself. I love when one of my fave YouTubers Ophie Dokie catches me up on what I've missed. Go check out her videos! ❤️
@ophiedokie.bsky.social

youtube.com/@ophie-dokie...

On Rereading Marie Howe's What the Living Do In late August, my father died. This is the first time I’m writing that down in a place were others will see it. It feels like I’m actually pointing to my grief instead of just piling more dirty cloth...

Even though my site is still under construction, welcome to the first post on Widely Read!

Its going to be a monthly newsletter with essays on books, reading, and writing. Starting things off with an essay on Marie Howe and my dad dying. Typical positive me.

widely-read.ghost.io/on-rereading...

This book is the Ur-text of trans apotheoses, each one unique in its power and truth. I am gently putting this book in your hands and telling you to read it.

Revolution of Wild Magic by QuillRabbit In order for Lukas to save his relationship and his town, he must embrace both magic and his true identity as a woman

I’m the spirit of transgender political resistance, may I remind you of a novella that shows the strength of collective action, found family, and looking out for your neighbors with violent resistance (and a relationship renewed through lesbian romance)?

quillrabbit.itch.io/revolution-o...

Performance Review -- Shipping this November -- A limited print run, numbered and signed. <> If only Dra were real. But Dra is Tim, a young man on a CitTech gig...

Performance Review is available for free or pay what you want: asterolsen.itch.io/performance-...

I also have a limited number of signed and numbered prints: asterolsen.bigcartel.com/product/perf...

Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown.

This book is a wonder and I can’t recommend it enough. It will alter your perception of the world. It might reinforce it but it will probably enhance it. Superlative.