Laureny

tal9000:

lucypaw:

amydentata:

mattachinereview:

thespiritwas:

Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.

40 years later in the very same park trans women are still fighting for space within Pride as this year’s Dyke March fiasco demonstrated. I’m feeling challenged and troubled by the narrative that trans women’s response to transphobia must take the “form of serious, calm, point by point analyses of why radfems are wrong” as Stephen Ira pointed out.

What strikes me about this video is that she isn’t trying to be calm and collected after being attacked. She’s not internalizing the notion that fighting transphobia has to take on the oppressive notion of “respectability.”

These conversations have left me wondering: has the non profit industrial complex and professionalized activism gentrified our political activity?

So within all of that, I say: nothing but love and power to trans women creating space for ourselves in queer community! Special shout out to Voz who inspired this post!

I really appreciate your practice of pointing out historical precedent in the process of movement making, especially because radfems pretend that politically outspoken trans women are some new, millenial invention, when of course they know that trans women have been speaking for years. They present a really dangerously ahistorical vision of the world, is I guess what I’m trying to say.

If anyone isn’t following Reina, you should fix that right now!

(I’m glad I said something helpful.)

Kinda angry at myself and the world that I didn’t know anything about this until now.

OMG, thank you for this video. I’m literally crying tears of rage and joy. Bookmarking and saving it and anything else I can. Because listen to Sylvia talk about the same damn things we’re still talking about. 40 damn years on. About how women’s groups didn’t give a shit that she was raped (as she says in the video), about how cisgay activists didn’t give a shit about trans* people. It’s like nothing has changed. Including how we’re supposed to not be angry, how if we are, we’re to be shut down and seen as dangerous and unhinged. Unfuck that shit. Thank you for your rage and your power, Sylvia. Thank you so much.

Awesome. Does anyone have a transcript for people who need it?

this always hits me so hard. i encourage everyone to take a moment to watch this if/when you have the emotional energy to do so!

so much love for this woman.

thecurvature:

If a bunch of white supremacists start shouting racist and transphobic slurs at you and then smash your face in with a glass, running a way is a completely reasonable response.

But here’s the problem with it: if you run away, you’re calculating on them not chasing you. If they do chase you, they’ve got you from behind, and you are at an instant disadvantage in defending yourself.

In that moment when the glass hit her face, CeCe had to make a split-second decision as to whether these obviously-violent people who assaulted her out of nowhere and as a result of pure hate were likely to let her get away, or whether this was it and she had to fight for her life right here and now.

That choosing the latter has made her a criminal shows that the legal system’s definition of “reasonable” is inherently white supremacist and cissupremacist. A young Black trans woman was expected to gamble with her life rather than value it and defend it. And the only people to whom it seems “reasonable” that violent white supremacist transphobes who have already attacked her posed no credible threat to her life has to be either white or cis.

There’s no doubt that if the parties had been reversed here, CeCe’s still the one who would have been arrested. (Just like there’s little doubt that had he lived, Trayvon Martin would have been the one who was sitting in a jail cell.) After all, it’s perfectly “reasonable” in a white supremacist, cissupremacist legal system to fear a Black trans woman. But a cis white dude, no matter what he’s done? Not so much.

vaginamacaroons:

TRANSPHOBIA WRAPPED IN FEMINISM IS STILL TRANSPHOBIA

Can this be the new hip saying please

(Source: breewriteswords)

Laureny

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You know how there was an awesome sign at a church that said “bigotry wrapped in religion is still bigotry?” And it became huge on the Internet? I think we should start something along the lines of “transphobia wrapped in feminism is still transphobia.”