ØtherwØrlder on Nostr: One reason I left kolektiva was an entirely dumbass approach to handling ...
One reason I left kolektiva was an entirely dumbass approach to handling transmisogyny. Not just the mods but also most of the people of the space have not learned how to spot transmisogyny or anything about how it operates in spaces beyond the most simplistic overt expressions of transphobia, and thereby actively enable and perpetuate it.
When the person enacting it is in any way marginalized, or in anyway has made themselves an authority of a outlook, project or space, radicals of any stripes ability to critically reflect disappears- "you don't want to support that kind of person, that kind if behavior, do you?", and far, far too often in radical spaces social capital is garnered and bonds of respect cemented one trans femmes social death at a time.
I have lost count at the times I've seen it, heard of it, been told about how there was a bad trans woman him this project once but thankfully now she is gone, and that is not just an exaggeration, I literally could not sit here and tally it up- the cascading flood of cast away trans femmes is so constant from the vantage point of being invested in trans femme mutual care it feels like an absurdity to even need to say the same thing again and again. Social death for trans femmes is frequently real death, and I'll spare anyone reading this the count of all the dead girls I've known. Any kindness offered in this discussion is entirely without justification, is entirely a unwarranted gift.
When the person enacting it is in any way marginalized, or in anyway has made themselves an authority of a outlook, project or space, radicals of any stripes ability to critically reflect disappears- "you don't want to support that kind of person, that kind if behavior, do you?", and far, far too often in radical spaces social capital is garnered and bonds of respect cemented one trans femmes social death at a time.
I have lost count at the times I've seen it, heard of it, been told about how there was a bad trans woman him this project once but thankfully now she is gone, and that is not just an exaggeration, I literally could not sit here and tally it up- the cascading flood of cast away trans femmes is so constant from the vantage point of being invested in trans femme mutual care it feels like an absurdity to even need to say the same thing again and again. Social death for trans femmes is frequently real death, and I'll spare anyone reading this the count of all the dead girls I've known. Any kindness offered in this discussion is entirely without justification, is entirely a unwarranted gift.