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Luz @aphrodite.aphroditus

Reading social psychology papers on how heterosexual, cisgender individuals feel about- and understand transgender individuals and the associations with homosexuality, lesbianism, and ambiguity. And it feels like I know too much...— I’ve also used what I know from the literature to keep me safe from violence over the years. What I’ve read has informed my choice of partners and my understanding of public and private space. It’s both libratory and painful.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

The question is not whether I am a woman or not. The question is whether I, as a transfeminine person, am deserving of equal rights and protection. Let’s start there.

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those [individuals] who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.” -Audre Lorde

Learning to be careful with starting the conversation (argument) etc. from the point of departure of the individual doing the work of the oppressor. For the question might not be situated within the framework they are proposing but elsewhere.

On critical race theory. Source: Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education Zeus Leonardo

Happy (Mid-western) Halloween

On “woman” as a concept . Source: The Biopolitics of Feeling.

On epistemic injustices, silencing, and erasure.

“Objectivity” is white.

no longer sharing Spotify links for their complicity in the ICE raids in the U.S. But you get it...

on resilient oblivion.

If you’re going to exist in anyone’s imagination, may it be your own.

Queer is an epistemological standpoint .