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  • khizuo [ze/zir]
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    2 months ago

    I was justified in not looking forward to election season. My trans lit class is full of white libs lol.

    • magi [null/void]M
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      2 months ago

      My trans lit class is full of white libs

      aware hopefully some can be educated.

        • magi [null/void]M
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          2 months ago

          I do hope, but I do find white libs insufferable, awful lot of white fragility with the anti-cracker-aktion

          • khizuo [ze/zir]
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            2 months ago

            I don't think they realized how bad they looked, all banding together to fight me (a person of color) lmayo

            • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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              2 months ago

              So you’re saying the universities aren’t neo-Marxist and run by minorities who want to genocide white people and if you disagree with one you get hanged?/s

            • magi [null/void]M
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              2 months ago

              That's because they're fragile, crumbly crackers when you press them. Fuck them for that, stand strong. comrade-raccoon

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      Also one of the things that pains me greatly is, if it's not Otros Valles by Jamie Berrout the trans litfic genre is soooooooooooo obnoxiously white all the time. Berrout writes abt it in her essays.

      • magi [null/void]M
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        2 months ago

        Also another great rec that everyone should read if they can and get some perspective

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      White lib feminists, uggggghhh

      Hopefully they're cool, they're in a trans lit class! That's gotta count for something

      • khizuo [ze/zir]
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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately a lot of them are white queer people... imagine the .world talking points. The white chauvinism in that room when I pushed back on the post-debate Dem endorsement was off the charts.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      I've always wondered exactly how far left both the authors and the readership is for that stuff, never had a real good read. Sometimes I think it's hyperlibshit, sometimes I'm like "maybe they read a lil Marx? as a treat?"

      • khizuo [ze/zir]
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        2 months ago

        No idea if this class represents the general readership, but I bet a lot of them think of Marx as a "scary tankie" shit

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          Kate Bornstein talks about scary tankie shit... you're supposed to read Gender Outlaw if you read orange book... lea-sad

          • magi [null/void]M
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            2 months ago

            Should bring that to class for some education! walter

            • khizuo [ze/zir]
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              2 months ago

              Or the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto...

            • ashinadash [she/her]
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              2 months ago

              Signing on for a class to convince people that gender theory is cultural marxism (based) marx-goth

      • magi [null/void]M
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        2 months ago

        You've seen goodreads, I imagine like that.. though I hope not

      • naom3 [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        There’s probably a bit of selection bias due to it being a university course. The only A Novel I’ve read is Detransition Baby, and while it definitely had libshit-y vibes at times (I was not surprised to find out that Torrey Peters has an MFA) it kinda seems like anything that anti-assimilationist is automatically precluded from being true libshit. Like, libshit is about preserving the status quo, and I feel like with how marginalized trans people are simply providing a trans narrative that doesn’t cater to cis audiences or cis sensibilities runs counter to that

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          2 months ago

          I am also not surprised that Peters has an MFA, but yes the A Novels do at least carry a strong anti-assimilationist streak, and Manhunt is actually pretty based frankly. Doesn't seem to have stopped the libs from glomming onto one or two sadly, but not catering to cis audiences is something I love about this funny special interest of mine. I do worry sometimes that the publishers view it like a carnival sideshow though...