SpookyGenderCommunist

I'm shocked no one has screeched about Strange being a lib, instead of just watching the damn video. I feel like that happens every time a semi-popular YouTube channel gets posted here

It's called Transgender Resistance: Socialism and The Fight for Trans Liberation by Laura Miles

I don't wanna completely rag on this book, Chapter 6: Trans Voices Around The World, for example, is genuinely really good, and brings into focus the histories and experiences of trans people in the global south.

Something that a book like Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg only briefly touches upon, outside of its main narrative, via pictures and short captions.

Speaking of Feinberg, this really gets me about Trot cognitive dissonance about "Stalinism". The book makes regular (and tbh unavoidable, given their importance) reference to Feinberg. And for that matter Sylvia Rivera is on the front cover.

Feinberg was in the Workers World Party, and Rivera was in the Young Lords. They're exactly the "Stalinists" the author condems in that subsection that I was complaining about! Yet they're on the cover of the book, and peppered throughout the reference notes, without a hint of irony.

Tbh it's a result of the western leftist cult of failure, that pervades everything. The best movements are the ones that are pure. Pure movements lost, and thus never had to contend with the complexities of actually governing. So a "stalinist" movement that never succeeded can be claimed as pure and good, rather than evil and totalitarian, despite them literally sharing an ideology.

Bro, wtf is it with trots? I bought a book recently about trans history and politics, and it's written by trots.

90% of the book is fine. Good, even! But there's a chapter going over a brief history of transness, and there's a subsection called "Totalitarian transphobia" and it talks about Paragraph 175 under the Nazis, rollbacks on queer rights under Stalin, and the continuation of paragraph 175 in West Germany. So far, nothing objectionable.

But then it gets to East Germany, which repealed Paragraph 175 decades before the west, and made great strides in queer rights for the time. East Germany is such an interesting, complex, nuanced, and fascinating part of socialist and queer history. And how does this book handle it?

One paragraph that says "East Germany repealed Paragraph 175 much sooner than the west. But gay men were still arbitrarily imprisoned under stalinist rule".

BABE, WHAT? I get it, Trots have to label any ML socialist project as "Stalinist". It's a thought terminating cliche of theirs. But there's such an interesting contradiction in that sentence, and there's zero attempt to explore it's ramifications.

On the one hand, I respect my Trot comrades for their commitment to genuine labor militancy. But holy shit do they such a deep disinterest in grappling with any leftist tendency outside of their own, in good faith.

kids shouldn't even get assigned a gender until puberty (and the kids should be the ones assigning it)

This is just anabaptism, but with gender... I'm into it

I can't get over the "Recommended for you" videos they put in the middle of search results. No, fuck you, that's not what I searched for!

IDK if anyone is ~~doom scrolling~~ Following the Nex Benedict case as closely as I am, but earlier today, the preliminary police autopsy allegedly found that Nex's death was not caused by the head trauma they received the day prior, during the incident where they were beaten.

Now I'm not a medical professional, so I could be really off base here, but.... That sounds like a load of shit to me. What else could it have been?

Not that I'm aware of, but it's an ongoing investigation, involving children, which means information isn't readily being put out there in the way it would be if it was a crime not involving children.

But also there's so little reporting on this story in general, that it's hard to say. No one seems to give much of a shit.

For clarity, the article directly quotes other articles without giving proper context for who's who, in the quote, which makes some pieces confusing. It says Nex "and her daughter", but that's because the speaker is the mother of the best friend, who was also present.

So the "daughter" was Nex's friend. I presume she's not seriously injured. But the fact that this resulted in another child's death decidedly overshadows how the other victims of the beating came out of the experience, in the reporting.

I'm sorry... What the actual fuck???

Hot take, I think it's deeply stupid that the thing V*ush gets got for isn't his years of horrendous takes, and harmful rhetoric, but cartoon loli horse dick pornography.

This is the internet equivalent of Al Capone getting got for tax evasion. Something tangentially related to his shittiness that while not unexpected, feels anti-climactic, when he should've been chased off years ago.

Alliance of Sahel States (ASS)

Imma need them to team up with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 🥵🥵🥵

Fidel Castro, give him your strength! 🙏🙏🙏