On Trans Day of Visibility, the Mexico City government teargassed a crowd of trans protestors that included one federal deputy, even though she's in the ruling party herself. AMLO is homophobic, transphobic trash
The other day I watched Leave the World Behind and while the general concept of the film was fine I guess and the cast was generally talented there were all these weird Boomer Lib moments in the construction of the characters that made it really alienating to anyone who's not, you know, a boomer lib
Then I go on to Wikipedia and I see that Obama personally gave feedback to the screenwriter, telling them how to make the characters more sympathetic
One of the greatest own goals in the history of cinema
@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs The kids were the weirdest part for me...what self-respecting teenager would think that the Obey Giant is still cool, the little girl that watches The West Wing, etc. Who wrote these characters? Oh right, Obama
@julieofthespirits I am equally wary about seeing "Civil War"....Texas teaming up with California in the trailer? Texans would die upon this news just so they could roll over in their graves.
It was probably a good Initiation Into Womanhood that the first person I dated while transitioning was a poet who objectified me, gave me a good feeling for how the deal would be
I finally finished reading Bad Habit by @velvetmolotov which comes out in English this May
My wife picked it up in Spain the other month, and read it on the plane back home, crying the entire time
It took me longer to read it, because I kept having to put it down, because it made me cry every couple of chapters
It's one of the best novels of the new wave of trans literature, on the level of Detransition, Baby or Bad Girls, and probably the best novel of the closet. You're a fool if you miss it
@Leonor@julieofthespirits@bookstodon Quizá no es el momento, si pausas su lectura ahí te estará esperando cuando quieras, las páginas no se borran. Un abrazo inmenso ❤️
Eighties one hit wonders: Turn out to have solid, well-crafted albums beyond just that one song everyone knows, always worth exploring their discographies
Nineties one hit wonders: Literally just have that one jam and that's it
The Oscars are important. Because Zone of Interest won an award, they put it back in theaters and I finally saw it. It was a very good film, probably the best film on the Holocaust I've seen
This is basically the only relevant part of the Oscars
The thing about separating the work from the author is that it's a social process, not an individual one. You can cite Heidegger nowadays without it being an endorsement of Nazism because the philosophy world spent literally decades discussing how fucked up Heidegger was. If you go to a Graveland or Peste Noire concert, though, because you personally feel you have separated the work from the author, you are just endorsing Nazism because the guy standing next to you is definitely a Nazi
That the world of academic feminism is so intent on silencing any criticism of Marcela Lagarde is because they don't want us to be able to separate El cautiverio de las mujeres from her appearances at conferences where people call for the elimination of trans people, because they want the prestige of the former to endorse the latter
Finally finished A Short History of Trans Misogyny. It's not all terrible, but I find it deeply problematic that not a single person has commented on the fact that she (rightly) criticizes the idealization and romanticization of the "Black trans woman" as a fetish representing "good politics" and then LITERALLY PAGES LATER DOES THE SAME THING TO TRAVESTIS
Like did no editor comment on that? No reader? Nobody could tell what she was doing there? What an awful, orientalist book
“Yo por eso le digo a la población LGBT: mejor anulen su voto, no voten ni por Xóchitl ni por Claudia, porque son una farsa de un lado y otro, porque ni la derecha ni la izquierda nos quieren, solamente nos utilizan y la prueba más clara somos Salma Luévano y yo, solo somos utilizadas para tener una cara, pero no hay derechos para personas trans, ni para las personas LGBT”; dijo.
Sometimes you really have to read between the lines of world politics and sometimes the head of the CIA just goes on a state visit to a South American country
TODA MI SOLIDARIDAD con lxs activistas trans que interrumpieron la conferencia de Marcela Lagarde en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Fuera terfas de la universidad!