I’m thinking about how most people are adverse to feeling misunderstood, right?
And then the ideal that some queer folks have of being gendered inconsistently by visibly confused strangers and taking delight in their misunderstanding.
It’s such a rare case of wanting to be misunderstood. Rejecting the affirmation of externally reflected understanding and embracing one’s own internal value irregardless. Embracing the futility of misunderstanding and turning that into something desirable.
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As an election day poll worker, I’ve seen it a couple of times now where somebody just doesn’t have valid ID, even as we’re going through the list of things we could accept from them. And then we get to “bank statement, utility bill, credit card statement” and they get really excited and whip out their phone to pull one up from whatever mobile app or web portal. But we can only accept paper hard copies, even if they’re printouts of web pages; we can’t take anything on a screen.
It seems to me like a very feasible bit of direct action to facilitate voting might be to set up a little mobile print station, maybe even with a wifi hub and a laptop. That way people without valid voter ID’s could conveniently pull up and print off a usable document without having to go home, find a public printing station elsewhere, or miss more work than they already are. And as long as you’re not canvassing, you could be well within the 100 foot barrier and I don’t think anybody could stop you.
This is also a thing that the board of elections or non-BoE voting location personnel could easily implement, but I do understand why that might be viewed as more problematic. I’m trying to figure out how people running a mobile print lab would best be able to flag down ID-less voters (who don’t want to vote provisionally), though, because I don’t think it would be good for election staff to advise voters to go outside and use some rando’s wifi to print off a sensitive document.
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It may potentially resolve some discussions surrounding what constitutes a microaggression if we shift the framework of “microaggression” from intent to effect. In essence, it might be more useful to reframe a microaggression as a social act which sleights the recipient, born out of actor-ingrained or systemic biases… and instead interpret it as an otherwise relatively minor social circumstance that, for the recipient, reifies knowledge about their own place within systems of subjugation.
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re: last reblog
Endosex is a new term for me, but a quick google search suggests it’s at the very least two or more years old, which makes me kind of surprised about not having seen it, since I’m usually more plugged into terminology things. Previously I only knew of perisex and dyadic.
I ultimately still prefer perisex because of how it illustrates normative membership as being an approximation, rather than a strict conformity. But the intersex-as-foundation take on the affirming utility of endosex is really novel and definitely a helpful perspective to be aware of.
My own duality of close-enough and simultaneously not-close-enough realizes that in the end, we’re all just trying to navigate the incredibly grey space of where society’s completely arbitrary and inconsistent boundaries are. It’s interesting how the incremental facets of the foundation of the construction of intersexuality are so varied and variable that trying to pinpoint what intersexuality is understood in contrast to is that much more difficult.
You could probably write something really compelling about how misandry can easily be influenced into misanthropy, and connect that to radfems who get along with conservatives or become indoctrinated into white supremacy.
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Something something English language-based fixation upon enacting gender through the enforcement of specific reflective third person pronouns, as used by others with the self as a referent
Something something potentially reframing the battle of self-expression by bringing first-person pronouns into the sphere of gendered discourse and restructuring (in a “queer as a project” way) the English language not via third-person pronouns, but rather by establishing multiple cases(? classes?) of self-referential pronouns/words
Something something reestablishing autonomy and self-determination in the discourse of language as determinant of reality, shifting the affirmative potential of language from extrinsic to intrinsic (and maybe bringing politicism to the forefront?) and guarenteeing realization (as in manifestation) rather than relying on others to make the realization occur
Inspiration for this thought-splatter based on my limited knowledge of the gendered implications of using various Japanese forms of “I” and also this page on different forms of Thai “I”
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CW: gruesome descriptions of the deaths of black people
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Something something you could draw a tidy parallel between radfems’ hatred of some cis men’s desire to be positively affirmed in their gender fulfillment to (trans exterminatory) radfems’ hatred of most trans people’s desire to be positively affirmed in their gender fulfillment. In both of these cases, the gender which the group in question seeks to fulfill is a loathed outgroup, deemed as in-conflict with and a threat to (cis) womanhood.
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The idea that authors should get a say in how their works are understood and how their characters are shipped or headcanoned is really weird when you get into the realm of film wherein characters are played by actors who may be enacting them with different visions than the original author, screenwriter, or even director imagined, and that actor has tons of non-canon ideas or headcanons that they’re bringing into their performance.
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Absolutist dichotomies are especially bad for queer contexts because the closet is a thing.
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Obligatory disclaimer that I’m East Asian.
I absolutely lowkey highkey adore ditzy East Asian gal characters in tv shows. It’s an archetype (trope? subverted trope? which both subverts a racialized stereotype while simultaneously building off gendered racialized stereotypes?) that I greatly enjoy.
That being said, I really wish there were more depictions of the boyish-looking East Asian gals that exist in real life, who have short hair and dress more masc. Because I really don’t think I’ve ever seen East Asian gals on tv who have hair any shorter than a bob (they usually have much longer hair than that, though), who don’t wear skirts, makeup, or other femme clothing.
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