tran stuff; sui mention
โok, patience, you old boomer lmao, why are you still talking about thisโ
iโm talking about this cos i know most folks werenโt pre-hardened (i guess โannealedโ may be a better word here) early on & brutally in the ways i was during the โ80s
being hardened like that is another form of structural violence which folks today treat as if was a โlong, long ago, before historyโ thing
it wasnโt.
this came up in in a chat a couple of weeks back when me & two other hens who hatched in the early โ90s got a chance to see each other face-to-face (ok, by video) to lament how many folks weโve known in which we were the โsurvived byโ & how few living peers/hens remain
one of us had just lost a hatchling-daughter just two weeks before & she was still in heavy grief,
her grief has cut esp. hard cos sheโd been optimistic that her daughter wouldnโt have to know some of the shit we fought to keep from happening ever again,
but itโs still happening
she also wrote about it:
https://medium.com/@dirtycitybird/rest-in-peace-rose-wong-6acffa42c44d
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i cant find my last poast about it, so iโll re-post:
if you have a dead mac laptop that just sits in a closet or box somewhere, send it over my way so i can tinker with it and, if itโs truly le dead, can be used as a donor for other computers
and if youโre in, like, the GO Transit area, and you have a bigger Mac thatโs dead and wanna donate it to a trans woman who likes to take apart and fix computers, find me and send over a post (before getting the OK to dm me)
#intros, Sept 2020
#introductions
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[iโm/weโre]
โ 91yo trans af old hen, hatched in โ91
โ Melungeon & white-coded
โ living w/ semi-healed cPTSD & anti-D-managed clinical depression of >35yrs)
โ undocโd immigrant in a settler state
โ child-survivor of *clinical* trans conversion therapy in the โ80s
โ named plaintiff in MN Sup. Ct ruling that was first anywhere to confront trans folkโs access to washrooms (I lost, sry!)
โ ND, on spectrum
โ came up w/ stuff like โdeadnameโ, โvoicingโ, โfirst/second pubertyโ & other shit maybe
โ mum to Frida, My Amazing Calico
โdo floral wifery on brownfields
AND
โ music archivist & DJ
โ film photog (DSLRs: too much ๐ฒ)
โ retired bike msgnr, graphic artist & web designer
โ committed to destroying whiteness
โ communist (anarchism: ๐)
โ urbanist trained by uni & Black womanism
โ ardent abt public spacing accessibility/equity, taking back neoliberally-privatized/stolen zones, decolonization & guerrilla removal of hostile architectures
โ learning the Talmud, not yet Jewish
repeating stuff iโve posted before, but as a single-post longread, on racismโฆ namely, my own
a reminder how, despite being Melungeon, i was born into whiteness & had bestowed upon me a conditional whiteness (irrespective how my surname was โimportedโ from Angola in 1619),
iโve benefited substantially & substantively from being placed as white in most of the spaces iโve navigated โ even as there are other evident structural barriers i deal w/ as a neurodivergent queer trans woman w/o status in a settler-colonial nation where i live
it also makes me, in that original sin of the U.S., where i was born & raised, ipso facto a racist,
my own racism, inculcated upon me from an early age, is a thing iโve been trying to demolish & also to thwart in my peers, pretty much every day for much of the last 30 or so years when i had the privilege (due to my whiteness) to choose to start thinking about & challenging those structures,
iโll be working to dismantle this for the rest of my life, and i know iโll never get there
finallyโฆ a quality Trans Day of Cis-gaze Visibility thread by someone else (on birdhellsite, from my old pal @dirtycitybird) i can actually get behind on the window-dressing farce which is now this shallow day
https://twitter.com/dirtycitybird/status/1377203443652292610
an international trans day, if one were to exist, would be poggers,
but truth told, i canโt wait until thereโs an International Trans Month so that cis people can spend that entire month complaining how they donโt get one month (because they only get twelve)
an international trans day, if one were to exist, would be poggers,
but truth told, i canโt wait until thereโs an International Trans Month so that cis people can spend that entire month complaining how they donโt get one month (because they only get twelve)
totally ok with seeing folks (who almost never interact) to go and unfollow/block away after disapproving of me boosting my past takes on the topic of this complete bullshit day (started by a total cracker because she didnโt like the โnegativityโ of another bullshit day started also by a honky)
@TrannyOakley nothing just yet, but a couple of years back on birdsite i half-heartedly floated a day tied to a temporal proximity to key dates which have shaped trans and queer history, tentatively an International Trans Day,
namely,
the Deweyโs counter sit-in of 24โ25 April 1965;
the nazi book burning at Institut fรผr Sexualwissenschaft on 10 May 1933;
May Day,
and a couple of other proximal events, with the 3rd more or less being right in the middle of all them
these days, however, Trans Day of Action has deeper roots in NYC, Black and Latine-led, pro-sex worker, and is more direct and less likely to get pinkwashed all to hell
@TwoVealCutlets@radical.town i know not of a trans day of silence
trans day of action in june matters to me, and iโve casually thrown out there that may 3rd could be international trans day, full-stop, given its temporally proximal placement between several key and pivotal events in trans history (including the Deweyโs sit-in and the burning of books at Institut fรผr Sexualwissenschaft, and also being near to a labour-rights day)
but again, something like that would need to come from folks who arenโt wyt and thinking, โhey wouldnโt it be great if i did thisโ
@wolfie @ak@beach.city what iโm saying, as someone whoโs been around tran stuff for almost thirty years, is march 31st is no equivalent at all
six years ago, i went into detail why trans day of visibility is not really anything to be holding on par with substantive, but still localized movements like (Black- and Latine-led) Trans Day of Action
https://patiencenewbury.tumblr.com/post/81304201007/trans-days
re-iterating: there is no trans counterpart for either IWD (today), International Non-Binary Day (July 14th), or International Menโs Day (Nov 19th)
@healyn, please verify that iโm looking at virtual siblings hereโฆ or maybe matt before and a portrayal of him right after his political career is over
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