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Tranz der Vampire @julieofthespirits.bsky.social

The biggest problem with Jules Gill-Peterson isn't whether I agree with her or not - I don't, but it's that she consistently massages the evidence around her argument in a manipulative fashion, hoping no one will notice. This is particularly clear in her last book and its bizarre Argentine fantasy

The latest success in trans publishing is Jules Gill-Peterson’s A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Released at a time of global backlash to trans rights in a coalition bringing together figures as var...

An Orientalist History of Transmisogyny

The latest success in trans publishing is Jules Gill-Peterson’s A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Released at a time of global backlash to trans rights in a coalition bringing together figures as var...

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    Tranz der Vampire @julieofthespirits.bsky.social

    I wrote this review because her depiction of South American trans movements is fundamentally disconnected from reality, to the point where I struggled to understand how she reached those conclusions - did she really only talk to Marlene Wayar and think that's what all people think? Did she not care?

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    Gabo @imperatorgabs.bsky.social

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    «We deserve a focus on forms of political organization so we can fight back as a community, rather than on questions of identity. We deserve revolution, rather than romance».

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