"This Is Azi Narine Of The Planetary Freighter Ship Demeter 227. I Am Marooned On Planet Vesta. Alone.

on a more serious note, I fucking hate how everytime I try to talk about the fact that transmascs are particularly vulnerable to radicalization efforts by terfs (which yes, does often result in at least partial detransition) people interpret it as if I'm celebrating that fact. believe it or not I actually think its a pretty insidious threat to our community, and I don't know how you expect to combat it without being honest about the part regressive rhetoric and bad actors play in all this

saying trans men are gonna detransiton into terfs is an interesting take ill give you that

bold of you to assume they have to detransition to be a terf

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

Oh she gets it

I spend hours scrolling through blogs to establish a link between transandrophobia theory and terfism...and...he just...tweeted it out

#the amount of people who genuinely don't understand that signed languages are in fact languages and not a coded form of spoken language is staggering

sign language & linguistics resource!

linguist Adam Schembri has been updating his amazing resource, What All Linguists Should Know (about sign languages). It's a really fantastic repository of info, including some really great basics that are great for students and non-linguists as well. Please share widely! I'll also copy a few links from his page, just as highlights:

What is sign language? (Schembri, 2013) https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-sign-language-21453 

How many sign languages are there? (Glottolog) https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sign1238 (short answer: at least 220)

How are sign languages acquired? (Lillo-Martin & Henner, 2021) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-043020-092357

I recommend that anyone interested in or studying linguistics at any level (from hobbyist to professional!) ask themselves (and colleagues, instructors, students, etc), frequently: wait - is that true about languages in general, or just spoken languages? Have we done any research about how this works in other modalities? Keep asking the question!

the thing about "don't shame people who choose to try to lose weight" is like in its initial iterations among fat liberationists it was largely intended as guidance for talking about people who are 1) fat and 2) some degree of participatory in fat liberationist activism. like i remember this coming up when roxane gay wrote about deciding to get weightloss surgery for example. the point (again among more radical fat lib types) was to recognise that it was something she pursued because of how miserably the world treated her, economically & interpersonally -- "don't shame her" wasn't supposed to detract from conversations about fatphobia but ironically was supposed to be a framework that pushed people to focus more on those structural factors, and to understand individual choices as being the result and not the cause of those factors. in this understanding, inside activist circles, often the people choosing to lose weight are also some of the people bearing the most brutal effects of fatphobia and so the thinking was, don't shy away from analysis of the systems that force them to seek weight loss but at the same time don't treat them with *needless* hostility for responding as individuals to those pressures, assuming they are amenable to actually deconstructing fatphobia. it's a contradictory position to be in of course but such is often the case (an obvious comparison being, like, a feminist who argues that makeup should not be required for women to exist in public, but is also dealing with say a boss who punishes her if she skips it). but the nature of social relations is such that it's very hard to keep terminology in some kind of linguistic quarantine esp when it's regarding a political position designated as fringe & cringe by (for example) an extremely profitable medical industry so now you just see "don't shame people for losing weight! ^-^" on like pastel infographics and comment sections of virulently fatphobic 4% bodyfat fitness influencers &c

I’m just thinking like the time it would take for two bears to maul 42 boys is a lot and they got every single one of them like at that point they were practically waiting in line. It’s pathetic really

that doesn't invalidate the statement. theoretical analysis of oppression is often necessarily simplifying because, as you pointed out, life is infinitely complicated, and sometimes you have to gloss over potential complicating factors if you want a political statement more specific than "oppressed people are oppressed by their oppressors". and once you've identified a generalized pattern of oppression, say, men oppressing women, you can begin to interrogate how that is impacted (intersected even) by other patterns of oppression

let’s groove tonight, share the spice of life

I HATE MORAL OCD. well i shouldnt say hate thats a strong word. and i dont want to sound like i hate people WITH moral ocd because i dont of course. i just hate having it. but i shouldnt think that, i do like having morals, its just stressful to be thinking about them so constantly and scrutinizing every little thing i do or think. but really thats the least i could do so i should at least try, right? just because i suffer from— no, struggle with moral ocd doesn’t mean i should just stop thinking about things all together, thats not what im saying and i should make that clear, but i