Julia Serano

Julia Serano's trans, gender, sexuality, & activism glossary official glossary for Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism by Julia Serano - defining transgender, queer, LGBTQ, feminist, & activist language and terminology

It can't be stressed enough how important and valuable @juliaserano.bsky.social 's work, writings, videos, etc has been over the years.
I just came across this awesome glossary, which gives you specific parts of her books/interventions to check out for given topics!
juliaserano.com/terminology....

DC statehood has to be the first priority the next time Dems control congress. Day 1, no debate, make it happen. It should’ve been priority one last time.

since we seem to be doing "young men" & "crisis of masculinity" Discourse™ again, here's a 🧵 on this topic from earlier this year:

screenshot from the linked-to book that reads: '...embodies all of the sex-negative attitudes that the Predator/ Prey mindset tends to instill in boys and men. Over the course of the chapter, despite expressing interest in having sex with Kat, this Eric also uses the word “pussy” as a slur (indicating that he harbors negative views toward women’s bodies), insults someone as a “cocksucker” (suggesting that he disrespects people who have sex with men), and calls women who are open about their sexual- ity “sluts” (showing he believes that women should be shamed for their sexual experiences and desires). In response to these senti- ments, Kat calls Eric a “confused slut”: someone who on the one hand supposedly wants to have lots of sex, yet on the other hand promotes highly negative attitudes toward sex. I have since found the phrase “confused slut” to be a useful intervention to get people thinking about how confounding...'

...& since the latest Discourse™ began with young men's views toward sex, I have a whole chapter about this in my book Sexed Up, specifically Chapter 5 "Confused Sluts" – the name is explained in the screenshot. you can read an excerpt from the opening of the chapter here: lithub.com/julia-serano...

since we seem to be doing "young men" & "crisis of masculinity" Discourse™ again, here's a 🧵 on this topic from earlier this year:

wait i am absolutely loving that julia serano fronted a geekpunk indie rock band in the 90s and 2000s??

Macbeth, by *soft vowel sounds* from the album Ray versus Macbeth & the Music Box (part one)

..."Macbeth" is about a feminist theorist & a drama queen who fall in love thanks to superstition. probably the only song ever to name-check both Julia Kristeva & Stephen Sondheim’s "Company" 👀... softvowelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/macbeth #BandcampFriday

A Teen Was Detained at Alligator Alcatraz. Could They Be the First of Many? It comes after weeks of uncertainty around how minors would fit into Florida's immigration crackdown.

new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid.

said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”

Father Figure, by Bitesize from the album Sophomore Slump

..."Father Figure" is (sadly) timely, about a teenager who goes to an Ozzy Osbourne concert & spots her dad in the audience & gets horribly embarrassed. includes Black Sabbath references & a 5 second fingertap guitar solo by yours truly : ) bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/father... #BandcampFriday

More attention here please.

Yellow Belt, by Bitesize from the album The Best of Bitesize

...switching gears, "Yellow Belt" is a fun punk song for everyone who has ever been underestimated – the chorus is "i'll come down on you like you know what, i have a license to kick your butt, i have a yellow belt, i'm gonna fuck you up..." bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/yellow... #BandcampFriday

Open Letter, by *soft vowel sounds* from the album Ray versus Macbeth & the Music Box (part one)

..."Open Letter" is about coming out to my family, which was like an alien ship landing on their front lawn: "do you run inside to hide or do you come out making hand signs & humming the "close encounters" song or maybe you pretend you're singing along... softvowelsounds.bandcamp.com/track/open-l...

Check out the amazing cover art on I Killed Sting! Anyway, more goodies to listen to today!

bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/i-kill...

Understudy, by Bitesize from the album Sophomore Slump

...here are a few individual tracks to whet your appetite, starting with one of my favorites: "Understudy" – it's about a transgender teenage thespian who gets to play Ophelia in an all-boys Catholic school production of Hamlet... bitesize.bandcamp.com/track/unders... #BandcampFriday

ICYMI!

i love bitesize!!!!!!

There are no rules.

Julia Serano’s Journey to Self-Discovery Through Music The “Whipping Girl” author reflects on her changing musical projects over the last decade.

...ofc many of my songs are trans-themed (if you're into that thing). you can listen to some of those tunes directly in this Bandcamp interview by @nberlat.bsky.social from a few years back: daily.bandcamp.com/features/jul...

Ray versus Macbeth & the Music Box (part one), by *soft vowel sounds* 4 track album

...& here's my current solo noise-pop music project *soft vowel sounds*. rn I just have the one 4-song EP "Ray versus..." which includes my parody of The Kinks' "Lola" & riffs on that album more generally. you can download it for "name your price" (free if you wish!) softvowelsounds.bandcamp.com

congrats Billie & Paul on your book release! while the theological parts of the book are outside my wheelhouse, the first couple chapters provide a great overview of imagined "purity", "contamination", & disgust that drive the stigmatization of both sexuality & marginalized groups

Bitesize From 1997-2009, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bitesize brought a little bit of sickness to indie-pop, filling their otherwise perfect two-minute long pop gems with awkward stops and starts, weird burst...

hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! which means that if you buy artists' music today, we get all the proceeds w/o them taking a cut. here is my previous band Bitesize. if you like what you hear, you can buy our entire discography (36 songs) for a mere $10.40, pls give it a listen! bitesize.bandcamp.com

Man who shut down the largest collective effort by America to help the most vulnerable people in the world, condemning millions to death, suggests that his businesses will save them donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

okay this is the best MLB trade deadline headline I've seen so far

I fucking hate these people dude. They don’t want to do anything. They don’t want to fight for anything. They have no ideology.

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

Fascinating that coding isn’t on this list! When so many people are already using LLMs to “vibe code.” Huh! I wonder why! 🤪

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Harrowing report about an undocumented mother of two (including a nursing 3-month-old) who called the police on her boyfriend for assaulting her, only for her to end up detained in ICE custody with 30 other women in a men's facility notorious for sexual abuse and medical neglect.

I went to a couple weddings as a TV-pilled child in the 1970s and afterwards I asked my parents why they didn't do the "does anybody object part"