#racist oppression

[profeminist]

[blachernaepalace]

the amount of cognitive dissonance and racism on display here is genuinely baffling

[pocketsizedquasar]

TPOC-Prioritized writings on anti-transmasculinity / transandrophobia

transandrophobia / anti-transmasculinity are both theories that have been spearheaded primarily by trans poc, particularly Black transmascs and transfemmes.

unfortunately, as with Everything created by queer and trans poc, particularly Black queer ppl, white trans ppl (regardless of gender, and regardless of whether they "believe" in this form of oppression or not) have coopted these theories and dominated these conversations, such that both "sides" of the "discourse" are divorced entirely from the racial connotations in which these theories were created, and the ways in which they were created specifically as an intervention against white feminism, and to highlight the ways multiple marginalizations affect the marginalization of masculinity. these are theories that explicitly interact with and can only be understood in conjunction with transmisogyny, as well as other oppressions like racism and misogynoir.

*"anti-transmasculinity" as a term and theory was coined by Black trans folks (some of whom's writings are linked below), and is specifically a theory within the context of Black transfeminism antiBlackness, and transmisogynoir, and cannot be divorced from that context. i try be very intentional about my use of the terms 'anti-transmasculinity' and 'transandrophobia' in different places here, because i do not want to dilute the former’s very particular context.

anyway, here's a list of miscellaneous writings on the subjects, with a priority for collecting writing from trans poc (not all of the authors are tpoc, but this list was intended to prioritize tpoc voices). the intention of this is not to be a be-all end-all on the subject, nor exalt any one of these individuals or pieces as exclusively ~correct~ or whatever, but to combat the whitewashed nature of these discussions online, and raise awareness to the myriad of people speaking on this subject. (nor do i claim to speak for any of them, or claim that any of them speak for me. i tried to make sure i didn't platform blatant racists, zionists, transmisogynists, or other bigots, but i'm not pretending to be 100% accurate about that.)

they aren't in any particular order (except the first one, which i think is an extremely foundational text for anti-transmasculinity theory as delineated by its creators, within the context of antiblackness and transmisogyny, and necessary reading to understand anti-transmasculinity as a theory). I tried to group all the links from the same authors together.

This is a non-exhaustive list! I will likely come back and add more writings as I find them. please feel free to recommend to me any works to include (including your own! especially if you yourself are a Black trans person or a trans POC).

Now with an Archived Read-more Link!

Racial-Class Paternalism and the Trojan Horse of Anti-transmasculinity by Nsámbu Za Suékama. if you read nothing else from this list, read this.

“But even as TME struggles escape the mainstream imagination, they persist, and are often both fueling and being fueled by the war on trans women and transfeminine people. Nothing makes this clearer than in how a Western binary system triangulates that war with Anti-transmasculinity. This is why I say that Anti-transmasculinity is a Trojan horse for Transmisogyny. Like the wooden horse in the Greek myth, it might not seem like what it is, for its actual contents and character are invisible, but at the heart of it, there is a violent campaign going on that is key to how the West aims to lay seige to its civilizational "enemies." And, like the walls of the city of Troy, materialist transfeminism has fortified the opposition to Western domination, in such a way that to overcome the stronghold requires a new strategy for the Man, one that follows up the open and vicious attacks on TMA people with a different, more hidden form of warfare.”

“today’s gender paternalism frames any manhood and masculine embodiment outside of (western) cisheteronormativity as not just biologically illegitimate but also the result of a barbaric threat to civilization. And who typically figures as the face of that barbarism but the Black trans woman? Materialist transfeminism has to theorize Anti-transmasculinity.”

"Non-Men", maGes, and Black Masculinities by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

One such argument, which is really a collection of arguments but can be consolidated into one, is that trans men are attempting to take a place alongside cis men in the hierarchy of patriarchy. In other words, while they may not have been so before naming themselves as trans men, they are aspiring to be oppressors. This employs a number of rhetorical devices that I have identified before including the idea that trans men are “betraying” cis womanhood and therefore should be seen as threats unless they act as footsoldiers for transmisogyny. The problem with this is that it treats trans manhoods as embodiments that exist as something which merely aspires to be cis manhood.

"For Those Seeking Fight or Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism" / primer on transmisogynoir by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman (not about anti-transmaculinity specifically (though it does come up), but a very good + important read on Black transfeminism & transmisogynoir, so I'm including it)

anti-transmasculinity needs its own theorizing outside of general "transphobia" by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

anti-transmasculinity & antiblackness inherently linked (& another) both by genderfugitive / disrupthehuman

There is a hidden epidemic of violence against transmasculine people by Orion Rodriguez

a thread master post linking to multiple threads about anti transmasculinity by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

a thread on anti-transmasculinity as an epistemic injustice (translated) originally by magicspeedwagon in French; English translation by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

Not transmasc invisibility, but erasure by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

Girlboy Boygirl Blues - antitransmasculinity as a denial of individual history & more by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

"irl we just kiss" - ‘transmasc vs transfem’ discourse & reactionary ‘boys vs girls’ politics in trans spaces by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

transmascs & being treated as predatory by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

transmasc mental health statistics by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

violent anti-transmasculine hate crimes by Salem L. Void / thewarmvoid

thread on examples of systemic anti-transmasculinity by magicspeedwagon

a thread on anti-transmasculinity and its erasure by storyjunkie

anti transmasculinity & transmisogyny and the degendering of Black people by afrodykee

anti transmasculinity & transmisogyny cannot be theorized in opposition to each other by afrodykee

white transfeminism's anti-transmasculinity by afrodykee

Black trans people & erasure of TPOC voices from the trans community by thatspookyagent

transmasculine nonwhite expereince by thatspookyagent

trans men being silenced by thatspookyagent

queer POC being pushed out of conversations by thatspookyagent

cis women's harm to trans men by novascotioducktoller w/ addition about TMOC by thatspookyagent

medical violence in anti transmasculinity by Caleb / sethpuertoluna

example of medical anti transmasculinity by Dominick / transguyenergy

response to inclusion of a trans man in an ad (thread) by Dominick / transguyenergy

anti-transmasculinity around periods by Dominick / transguyenergy

anti-transmasculinity towards pregnant trans men by Dominick / transguyenergy

transitioning as a transmasc of color by gendercriminals

white (cis) women & racist transandrophobia by dead-lavender-society

transandrophobia as an indigenous trans man by petrichorvoices

examples of transandrophobia by transvermin

the “lost lesbian” narrative & antitransmasculinity by vaguefiend

cis women & transandrophobia by vaguefiend

intersectionality & transandrophobia by visible-schizo-spectrum

more transandrophobia from cis women by cock-holliday

tl;dr : there’s LOTS of theory and discussions out there abt anti-transmasculinity, transandrophobia, how these things relate to other forms of transphobia, how it interacts with other marginalizations, most especially race, and the ways in which it affects transmascs. this information is everywhere. it’s out there. y’all (white ppl) are just refusing to engage with it.

[junadeo]

this might be a hot take but maybe we shouldnt be mean or shitty to people we consider to be members of a "privileged" or even a "oppressive" group, like men, white people, cishets, etc.

[slyandthefamilybook]

even if the protestors aren't being antisemitic (they are) what the fuck kind of self-respecting "activist" says with their whole chest "people accusing you of racism and bigotry aren't being serious so you don't have to listen to them". again the double-standards applied to antisemitism cause people to abandon every one of their supposedly deeply-held beliefs

[burningtheroots]

There is ZERO logical or ethical reason to support sex-work.

I‘m not against sex-workers, who are women trapped under a patriarchal system which coerces them in multiple different ways to let men use and abuse their bodies. The very same men who look down on women in general. I‘m against sex-work.

And you can‘t take the stereotypical privileged middle-class woman who does OnlyFans or "enjoys getting paid for sex" as an example or justification. She‘s STILL getting objectified and degraded by these men, and even though she "feels" as if she‘s in control, she‘s not. Power and control are not feelings.

These "choices" are ingrained into them by the patriarchy and ultimately ONLY serve the men who benefit from them. Women‘s bodies are never a commodity. And consent can‘t be sold and bought. Sexual intimacy is either enthusiastic, mutual and has the same conditions for everyone involved or it‘s simply a violation of the female sex class as a whole.

When one woman can be "bought", all of us can. And no man should EVER be able to "buy" a woman or her consent.

Also, the majority of sex-workers are the exact opposite of the fake-happy and fake-empowered OF women. They‘re trafficked and ripped apart, their humanity is completely taken away from them.

And the focus shouldn’t lie on "What if SHE wants it?", instead ask yourself "Why should HE want it? And be in a position to purchase another human being?".

Embracing women‘s sexuality means embracing HER sexuality without strings (such as patriarchal conditioning) attached, not some man‘s who happens to have the money for it.

What do we call a man who doesn’t care whether the woman actually *wants* him and still performs the act? A rapist.

[rjalker]

if the fantasy oppression in your setting "makes sense" throw it the fuck out.

If your fantasy oppression is the equivalent to regular people who do not want to get shot getting the fuck out of the store because some Guns Rights Activist family with half a dozen AK-47s in full tactical gear strolled in, your story is racist, you're bad at writing, throw it the fuck out, learn how actual oppression works.

Mice being afraid of getting eaten by cats isn't bigotry, it's called basic survival instincts.

[halfmoth-halfman]

Can I ask why you hate Sarah J Maas? Genuinely asking

no 💜

anyway, here's the books by black authors i'm reading/re-reading for black history month:

Beloved - Toni Morrison The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison James Baldwin: Collected Essays - James Baldwin (includes Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds) Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates The Broken Earth Series - N. K. Jemisin Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James The Legacy of Orisha Series - Tomi Adeyemi The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes Well-Read Black Girl - Glory Edim The Mead Mishaps Series - Kimberly Lemming The Legendborn Cycle - Tracy Deonn

and here are some resources for donating and boycotting in support of gaza, congo, and sudan:

how to donate an e-sim with #ConnectingGaza

CareForGaza

BDS Movement & BDS Targeted Boycott List

what's happening in Congo: info + resources + how you can help

The War in Sudan & List of Sudanese Fundraisers

[0wllight]

I’m still never gonna forget the person in one of my discord servers who said the French could experience racist xenophobia. Do you even know what those words mean

[softbutchthatlovesyou]

Things I hate: How many white people have said they wish they could be physically violent towards "transandrophobia truthers"

Just say u wanna stab my ass for forcing u to acknowledge I'm black and that intersects with my transness and we can all go fucking home

[pcktknife]

and why did they make toralei rich and british. the people aleady hated her when she was poor and ambiguous 😭

[nando161mando]

Fascist nazi capitalist Australian Government seeks to ram deportation laws through parliament | ABC News

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

liking south park (and having a BLOG or other account for it thereby engaging in fan art and fanfic) and then acting like you’re on a moral high ground for openly proclaiming your hatred of kyman and its shippers is like being in hell and saying well im better than that guy because he did something worse than me to get here!! like. who gives a shit we’re all in the same hellscape can we please play NICE with each other??? good god i know our favs are fourth graders but that doesn’t mean we have to act like literal children too

[bitegore]

im gonna keep it real w you. "all prejudice is actually rooted in class and if you think there's any element of xenophobia in any of it you're actually a fascist" is a really stupid and unhelpful take

[profeminist]

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"To say 'I don’t see race' in a country where race was the metric for humanity is to functionally state 'I choose not to see injustice.'"

tori williams douglass

[djuvlipen]

the way TRAs react to "terf" woc is so telling. "Oh you're a woman of colour standing up for women's rights? You must be lying. You must be white. There's no way a woc would ever want feminism. Feminism is a white woman thing. Women's rights are a white women's thing." Like okay, way to say you think woc should shut up and accept sexism. What is it that makes you think we don't deserve protection from male violence too? "You're a race faker." Do you really think woc don't crave for the same amount of human dignity as white women do?