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A Short History of Trans Misogyny | Jules Gill-Peterson
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Pickpick

An incredibly informative read: I learned a lot & will be processing this for a while.
Chapter one focuses on the colonialist underpinnings of "trans panic" narratives arising in British India as a means of oppressive imperialist control.
Chapter two moves to Antebellum USA and the weaponisation of trans misogyny for the imposition of white supremacist culture on Native American and enslaved African peoples as a means of control and erasure. ⬇️⅓

Bookwomble Chapter three moves to the 20th century & the development of the modern Western concept of transness, its affiliations with & distinctness from the range of queer & straight identities.
The conclusion gathers the threads of the chapters and brings Gill-Peterson\'s perspective into the 21st century.
Throughout, JGP is at pains to emphasise that concepts of trans femininity are culturally specific and that one perspective cannot, and should not, ⬇️
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Bookwomble ... be imposed from one to another, that stringent, top-down definitions are limiting and tools of oppression, and that accepting nuance, difference and diversity is empowering and enriching for everybody. 5⭐🏳️‍⚧️
Naturally, given it\'s subject matter, there are examples of awful transphobia, misogyny, homophobia, racism and colonisation, along with discussion of sex work, drug use, and, briefly, child abuse.
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Singout Thank you! That sounds really powerful. I remember when working on a document about queer justice in Canada, that we were emphasizing that it was not the same globally and that we shouldn‘t assume homophobia/transphobia existed or took the same form in other parts of the world. 2mo
Bookwomble @Singout It was a really good read about really awful oppression. The positive side is that learning about this stuff makes resistance (internal and external) that bit easier 😊 2mo
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Dilara
Herculine Barbin | Michel Foucault
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A couple of weeks ago, on the anniversary of Foucault's death, the garden of his family home was open to the public, as was his office, & 2 short plays, including the premiere of the 1 based on the tagged book, were given for free. I was there, but as photos were not allowed, there's no proof 😊. I enjoyed the play, and am now reading the book. It contains Herculine's own account of her life as an intersex person in the 19th century.

Dilara ⬇She was brought up as a girl, was outed & forced to live as a man after puberty, and committed suicide very young. Also contains an introduction by Foucault, various medical and legal documents related to the case, a scabrous short story by Oscar Panizza inspired by their life, and a postface by Eric Fassin, an academic specialising in gender & sexual orientation. 2mo
sarahbarnes Wow, very cool. 2mo
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny | Jules Gill-Peterson
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"'Trans misogyny' refers to the targeted devaluation of both trans femininity & people perceived to be trans feminine, regardless of how they understand themselves." - Preface

"We are living in the global era of 'trans', a shortened or prefixal version of the word 'transgender'." - Introduction

"Long before it was a legal defence, in the nineteenth century, the global trans panic began." - Chapter 1

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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Leanestaystrong1995
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I read a few pages and I‘m already in love with it 🥰👏

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JessClark78
Goth: Undead Subculture | Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Michael Bibby
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🤗📚 5mo
Eggs Excellent 🖤 👀 🩶 5mo
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IndoorDame
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I was having fun when I started out following the “choose your own adventure” style path through this, but when I actually to started go through the chapters in order to see what information was really contained here I started to get more and more irritated. I found the premise is almost laughably broad making it impossible to go into depth about anything, and in calling attention to numerous stereotypes the author also trips over quite a few.

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JenniferEgnor
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I loved this book! I already knew that gender is a social construct—but this book made me think about it in an entirely different way. There are no page numbers, and each chapter ends in a way that directs you toward another path of how you are navigating what we call ‘gender‘. It touches on race, class, abled and disabled bodies, sexual orientation, and more. This is a fantastic guide to helping you figure things out when you live in a world⬇️

JenniferEgnor where literally everything is gendered. 6mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Next up in quarterly review faves: non-fiction and lit fic. Biggest surprise: all the nature non-fiction I've done in the last three months, none of it ended up sticking with me, and the reading experience/writing quality was really hit and miss. Might have to rethink sampling in that subgenre (no more picking it up because it has a tree on the cover! Literary fiction is never my primary genre, at least I read ONE I loved! 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality
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Fucking fascinating. Maybe a little too much Freud. Apologies for the dreadful cover showing in your feed.
Carol J. Clover's 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film' remains one of my faves of the collection, I realize that's my final girl bias showing through.
I think I honestly enjoyed Thomas Doherty's 'Genre, Gender and The Aliens Trilogy' (written back when it was just a trilogy) because those films made such an impression on me. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The collection also expands several times on how the nuclear family (male patriarch) is threatened, essays individually containing stronger or weaker links back to gendered concerns via a mother who is somehow perverse; then stumbles into intersectional territory. There are a number of essays discussing queerness, seemingly more entries about gay men than lesbians, and some discussion of racism. Unfortunately, the inclusion of essays focusing on these topics felt more scattered than intentional and seemed to veer away from discussions of gender and, as the little ♀️symbol on the cover suggests, specifically depictions of women in horror. 9mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/4 I would love to see a third edition, (there was about ten years between the first and second edition, it's been nearly ten years since the second, so it's time!) with parts that expand upon the gender discussion beyond women as minority gender, into discussion of transgender, non-binary/agender spectrum, perhaps an interlude for new ways the masculine is treated or expanded upon as well, then a dedicated section that focuses more on how gender in family in horror works, with all the mother aspects situated there, and then a dedicated section for how intersecting queerness and bipoc rep into gender affects readings of certain films' texts. 9mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 In the meantime I'm definitely going to keep poking around for horror non-fiction with this kind of insight, especially centred on the final girl trope. Happy to take reccs if you got 'em!
⚠️ALL THE WARNINGS. If you're worried about it, there's probably at least a mention in this essay collection, and there are also black and white stills from the films in question. BEWARE.
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