Trigger warning: extensive discussion of rape and the power dynamics thereof. Read only when you’re ready. [This essay expands on ideas from our work-in-progress book about Patriarchy, so if there is a large overlap with what the book eventually contains when it’s published, it’s not plagiarism but from the same minds and hands. Plagiarism is […]
Category: Anarchatransfeminism
All politicians are rapists
Content Warning: rape, rape culture, victim blaming. Read this when you’re ready. Power makes rapists. There are endless reports of politicians, celebrities, businessmen and more raping. This is not some fluke: It is not just that powerful people being powerful makes it more likely to hear about their assaultings due to being famous and “news-worthy”—it […]
Trans Day of Visibility: a few days after Ostara
Today is Trans Day of Visibility and we are just past Ostara. Here, clouds loom overhead, things of gloom and shade that bring water for flowers. Here, it is overcast and mist obscures the depths of sight, but the mist hides many things. Yesterday we shivered outside—today it is warmer and it is darker. Flowers […]