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Talia Bhatt Writes

@taliabhattwrites / taliabhattwrites.tumblr.com

The official Tumblr for Talia Bhatt, writer of romance, science fiction, transfeminist theory ... rather a lot of things, really.
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Babe, wake up, new 'Trans/Rad/Fem' just dropped

This week, I'd like to present a short, concise treatment of an important distinction in how different people experience transphobia, and in doing so formalize some terminology that I believe is useful to define.

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"Racism is inherent to transmisogyny"

So, are white trans women affected by racism?

This is not a gotcha. I've seen a lot of people on here attempt to discuss racism and (trans)misogyny as co-constitutive, but people never show their work. If racism is in fact inseparable from transmisogyny, is everyone who suffers transmisogyny a victim of racism?

If cis women of color are subject to transmisogyny, is there no distinction between cis and trans women of color, either within or outside the West?

How does the inseparability of racism and transmisogyny operate in global south cultures where imperialism has shaped their history and economy, yes, but the extant regime is not one where white people are a present or meaningful demographic?

I know people mean well, but if you're going to make broad, sweeping statements about these topics, you need to be able to think through your arguments, realize what conclusions you are implicitly promulgating, and reason out whether what you're saying makes sense and matches up with history and empirical reality.

Because I've had experience both with Western and non-Western patriarchies, and I'm fairly sure in that regard, I am a minority on this site.

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Can't fucking believe they're doing trans panic about an Olympics with precisely zero trans women in it

Going to crosspost this from my other accounts.

"The interplay between transmisogyny and racialized misogyny is degendering--manhood invoked not as the venerated manhood of the hegemon but the manhood of the savagified brute, cast as Other and a violent threat to 'his' women. Degendering justifies violent 'retribution' and reprisal."

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