/r/radicalqueers
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What are some good places to start with queer Marxist theory? I’m kinda well read on anarchist queer stuff but need to look into queer Marxist theory or history.
Me and my pals built together three mostly Safe For Work, mixed and inclusive subreddit communities for everything centered on adult women and gender variant people after our totally private and inclusive group chat room grew so big that we had to build a subreddit community.
We currently have more than 1100 member users in our older subreddit community called r/GalsAndPals that we built because of popular demand as a mostly Safe For Work and inclusive subreddit community for everything centered on ADULT people who at least partly somehow identify with unconventional womanhood.
We currently also have more than 50 member users in our younger subreddit community called r/DollsAndPals that we are also building because of popular demand as a mostly Safe For Work and inclusive subreddit community for everything centered on ADULT people who at least partly somehow identify with conventional womanhood.
We also currently have more than 190 member users in our subreddit community called r/GuysAndPals that we are also building because of popular demand as a mostly Safe For Work and inclusive subreddit community for everything centered on ADULT people who at least partly somehow identify with unconventional manhood.
We do have some basic respect safety guideline expectations written in the rules page section of our subreddit communities to help sustain the health of our groups as inclusive safer spaces free of judgement and harm that you should read.
We are inclusive of transy, transbianish, transfeminine, transandrogynous, transmasculine, detrans, retrans, genderfluid, and genderqueer adult people.
Our subreddits are currently temporarily somewhat restricted for being in an experimental early development stage until becoming more accessible, public and welcoming after a time when we are more prepared enough to deal with more diverse types of visitors having access to our place.
If you may be feeling interested in joining, just drop a comment here below or send a moderator mail message to have access to one or all of our subreddits or if you want support to create another group.
We are always open to answering questions and clearing doubts.
Any catchy chants that express your distaste towards cops pretending to be part/ supportive of the community?
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Both terfs and transmeds just reproduce heteropatriarchy because defining womanhood on the basis of biological functions and features is exactly what patriarchy and heterosexism do
Trans People face violence because they reject the gender class they were Assigned making Them inherently subversive to the gender class system. Meaning that true liberation for trans people requires the abolition of gender as a class system Meaning that we have Actively fight the gendering of our bodies And expressions The trans movement has already rejected the gendering of Bodies and expressions And I also believe it's time that our allies do the same I am not saying abandoning what you identify as I'm saying deconstruct it Vocally to the people around you unless It's unsafe for you
Gender abolition will never happen unless we have a mainstream gender deconstruction movement Lasting generations
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I am trans masc and intersex. People are never sure if I’m a trans man, trans woman, a gay man, a gay woman, “grrr woke blue haired SJW I’m totally not sexually fixated on”, or a teenager. And I never know how I’m being perceived either.
It’s led to quite a few scary situations and more than a couple of confrontations.
I live in Shitsville, Georgia — a notoriously conservative exurb of Atlanta.
We have Nazi gangs active here in the northern part of the state, and the KKK still runs many smalltowns down in the southernmost part.
The nearer to Florida or Tennessee, the worse.
I skip most public bathrooms as a trans person in 2024. The rest I’ve had my partner escort me to the door
I’ve been followed and creeped on in public places.
So. Having a strap in my current household would not be safe. I’d be a damn idiot for it.
But the one thing I could justify here were less-lethal weapons.
What I am now concealed-carrying is a relatively high-voltage taser. And ofc some scouting mace for good measure.
I have been practicing the use of both outside. Closest I can get to training.
Now I have no problem using the restroom with confidence.
And you can too!
Forgive my tone if it sounds uncouth — I’m neurodivergent and really asking.
Does this not seem a glaring omission to leave social and sexual inequality/labor out?
Because to me, class reductionism at least LOOKS LIKE leaving out a whole half of the equation to make the wrong answer work — that is: to stay within one’s own biases.
Am I wrong? Or nah? Surely, the self styled “traditionalist” communists (for instance) are not all simply edgy and young?
I’m not trying to start beef or be snarky, I’m seriously really asking, mods.
What’s going on with apologia for even extremely misogynist RIGHT authoritarians i.e. Putin?
I have my suspicions about what’s going on both internally and in the lives of those which I described.
Malcolm X was right, it's easier to keep under the thumb the groups who are oppressed when they assimilate and try to buy into the system created by their oppressors rather than opt out and refuse to play by their rules. We settle for crumbs cishets will give us from their tabletop rather than fight and take what is ours, we play by their rules hoping they will give us what we want but it will always be when they want to give it to us and how much they allow us to have. The problem is too many of us forget we rioted in Compton Cafeteria, Stonewall to get what we wanted, when we protested during the HIV/AIDS epidemic no one cared. We don't get anywhere that way.
The amount of people regurgitating Zionist and colonialist propaganda there is insane. There’s just open racism and imperialist attitudes there and any time you call someone out for pinkwashing a literal genocide, you get downvoting to hell with people saying “You know they want to kill your right?”
Goddam I hate being a queer Jew rn. So fucking isolating…
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