I can't find a free copy online (y'all are more than welcome to take a second look) and I feel horrible asking others to buy it. If enough people are interested in the group reading of trans literature but can't afford the book, we could do a group reading of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, which is free here but it's not as radicalizing or theory oriented as I'd like.
I... uh... found... a free copy on LibGen. Get your epub copy here.
FIRST MEGATHREAD GOES UP ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH. GET TO READING, LIBS. TAKE NOTES AND COME READY TO DISCUSS.
The book is 147 pages. We're all busy and some of us (and by this I mean me) are slow readers, so I'm thinking we have three megathreads in !transenby_liberation over the course of three weeks. ~50 pages of the book each week. I'd open a megathread each Saturday morning where we could drop notes, quotes, or discuss things that opened our eyes, educated us, or inspired/motivated us.
Everyone would be welcome, not just trans and enby comrades. I'm personally open to answering any questions that cis comrades have about our own lived experiences throughout the reading and I encourage other trans and enby comrades to be open as well, if they feel comfortable; absolutely no pressure though!
I think this could be an incredible opportunity for us to have an open, educational dialogue with our cis comrades to better educate them on what trans rights entail and how best to support trans and non-binary folk.
I hope I'm not being too idealistic with all of this. Let me know what y'all think and we can go from there, I suppose. I'm more than open to suggestions on how to handle all of this too.
50 pages a week sounds good. I sadly haven't read enough trans theory like I suspect many other comrades.
Yeah, well, I sacrificed an evening and the spine of my book so libs like you could get educated. Happy to have you on board. 😎
I'm throwing up the first megathread next weekend. Make sure to jot down any questions or notes! ❤️
So far, in a quietly noisy public place having my blood sucked out, in an hour I've read almost 30 pages.
Not super dense, reads quick and conversational like so far.
Fucking based. Everything by them is super easy to understand without skimping on the power of their message. o7
I may need to look up some of the terms used.
Like, I'm unsure if "transsexual" is one that has been retired or just has some more nuanced meanings that I wasn't aware of that keeps it in use.
it's an older term. it's still used today, primarily by older trans people who grew up with it and by, unfortunately, trans medicalists who see transition as primarily (solely) pertaining to the physical sex characteristics. it's got enough stigma that I'd avoid calling anyone it if you're a cis person but it sees plenty of use within the trans community - it would probably be reclaimed if not for the reactionary way it's used to exclude NB/non-transitioning trans people by the trans medicalists.
I guess I should mention their work is a bit older so a lot of the language is a bit outdated, but they absolutely laid the groundwork for the modern transgender movement and brought a lot of the ideas and terminology into the mainstream.
Do you think 2 weeks is reasonable? Anything you'd change or suggest? I feel like 70 pages in a week isn't much?
It's definitely reasonable for me. It's about 10 pages a day which is not bad at all. However, I know everyone's different and has different levels of capacity. If 70 is too much, splitting it in 3 (about 50 pages a week) would also be a decent option
Honestly that's what I was thinking. I read slow as fuck too.
I'm just gonna do 3 and call it good.
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning, October 24th. Make sure to jot down some notes for discussion, bb! ❤️
I know I've been putting this off forever. Probably gonna feature this post when the electoralism post is down.
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning, October 24th. Make sure to jot down some notes, bb! ❤️
If anyone is interested in an ebook, I'm working on OCR'ing and converting the PDF into the ePub format.
EDIT: https://libgen.lc/ads.php?md5=aa91ea586ab72d155ed454edaa7a17cf
YES YES YES YES. TRUE PRAXIS. THANK SO MUCH. WHEN YOU'RE DONE LET ME KNOW AND I'LL PUT A LINK IN THE POST. O7 ❤️
I used ABBYY FineReader to open the PDF, manually fixed the image/text areas, exported as EPUB. Then, I went through the book, and cleaned up all the typos/mis-formatted words in Sigil. Takes a couple hours, so I basically read the whole book as I went along.
I put the link in the post too. Thanks again for your efforts. o7
Good. I spent a whole ass evening scanning this book a few weeks ago and wrecking the spine of my coveted Leslie Feinberg book to educate the libs. 😤
First megathread goes up next Saturday, October 24th. Literally seven pages per day if you start now. ❤️🥰
First megathread goes up next Saturday, October 24th. Literally seven pages per day if you start now. ❤️🥰
You won't be fucked up, but you sure will be Jokerfied. First megathread goes up next Saturday. 😎
Great idea, havnt read this book but have read a bunch of queer/trans/gender theory.
Whipping girl by Serano, Normal Life by spade, and Captive Genders are all the ones I currently reccomend.
Looki g forward to this. thanks!
First megathread goes up next Saturday, October 24th. Literally seven pages per day if you start now. 😎
Also, Whipping Girl is on my list when I get through everything by Comrade Feinberg. 🥰
Captive genders is a tough read. I’ll finish it one of these days.
Yes it is, I've had some close friends from when I housed houseless trans folks where I lived 5 years ago that became incarcerated hearing their story and reading this book cemented the inhumane cruelty that all experience in the u.s criminal justice system but trans folks are brutalized even more so
I'd participate! Been meaning to read this after you recommended it to me a while back and this seems like a good occasion to do so. Maybe if we find an audiobook it would make this accessible to more people as well
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning. Make sure to jot down some notes, bb! ❤️
I think coming out of a struggle session is the best time because the response to the pronoun tags was uh... Not great... And the libs could use some education. I couldn't find an audiobook though. 🙃
Would fucking love thisssss, i just came out as nonbinary last year so i'm kinda new to all this. Would love to read some gender theory for once
First megathread goes up next Saturday, October 24th. Literally seven pages per day if you start now. Get to reading, little enby bb. I'm amped to discuss this with my fellow LGBTs, lol. 🥰
This is a wonderful idea. Can't wait to discuss the book with you folks!
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning. Make sure to jot down any questions or notes! ❤️
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning, October 24th. Make sure to jot down some notes, bb! ❤️
I think this post was stickied site-wide rather than just this particular channel
Oh. I'm aware of how it was stickied, baby. The reaction to the pronoun tags was... Uh... Not good. Now is a better time than ever to turn a struggle session into an educational session and I'm shooting to educate as many cissies as possible. 😎😎
I’m throwing up the first megathread next Saturday morning, October 24th. Make sure to jot down some notes for discussion, bb! ❤️
