Seminar on the state of things for ‘trans’ people in Russia, held at London Metropolitan University in February 2024. Legislation of 24 July 2023 Unlike
Category: Academics
‘Cancel culture’ and politics of vulnerability in queer/trans online spaces
This is the second of the IOE’s ‘Trans-inclusivity Seminar Series’ that we have attended, the other being ‘I Was a Queer Child and So Were You,’ which was exactly like it sounds. This talk, given by Dr Kata Kyrola (they/them), was far less batshit than Stockton Dean’s. Professor Martin Oliver, who told us he uses ‘he/him pronouns’, introduced the gender activist, sorry, academic, and described the seminar series as ‘just lovely’ with ‘such exciting ideas’. We’ll be the judges of that, thank you.
“I Was a Queer Child and So Were You: Toward Social and Cultural Transformation”
Stockton went off on her ‘reading is like a kiss’ vein again, sometimes reading is like kissing your uncle. You can also penetrate someone with words. Were such thoughts offensive to asex(ual) people though? When I say ‘cat’ to you, your mind has to ‘birth’ the idea of a cat, what is left over is mystical. Roland Barthes eat your heart out.
The feminism of fools
To prove that some women and some feminists are actually indeed horrible, Lewis put up a slide which included two photos of Posie Parker (aka Kellie Jay Keen), including the time she and Julia Long confronted the HRC spokesman, Sarah McBride, in Washington DC, incorrectly stating that their trip was funded by the Heritage Foundation. (That someone could still be harping on about this very minor episode five years later is really rather petty, even Kathleen ‘they turned back feminism 20 years’ Stock stopped two years ago.) Lewis had been commissioned to write a piece about trans exclusionary radical feminists at that time, in January 2019, as Americans did not know anything about terfs, and Lewis, having lived in the UK and in the US for several years, was perfectly placed to explain to the yanks that ‘no nonsense anti-utopianism prevailed on terf island’, though ‘anti-trans feminism wasn’t universal,’ she consoled the assembled pro-trans students and academics.
Addressing ‘gender-based’ violence the abolitionist way
I listened into this webinar just out of interest, the ‘abolition movement’ isn’t strictly my niche, however I was disturbed enough by what they had to say to feel it worth posting about. If you didn’t know, abolitionists want to destroy all policing services and remove punishments for criminals, though for some time they have been scratching their heads how to square this aim with their adjacent cosily-named ‘gender-based violence’ schtick. As we all know, the crimes of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence, are overwhelmingly committed by men, with women largely the victims. To solve some of the problems around this issue, the UK prison abolitionist squad has developed a booklet to shove at people when anyone might question them about why they felt someone like Wayne Couzens should escape the criminal justice system.
Who’s afraid of gender?
On the issue of ‘lexical capture’, they need to steal the language back that gender crits had stolen, the word ‘harmful’ for example, as in ‘puberty blockers are harmful’. Interestingly Judy had a little Freudian slip when she described them as ‘gay affirmative healthcare’, before quickly correcting herself.
The Lies They Tell 
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