The book arose from ‘ethnographic* and archival research among queer-, trans people, feminists and sex workers’ and was about the ‘everyday troubles with transness in social and institutional life’ in Istanbul, Turkey, since 2016. She wanted to know how trans people dealt with such ‘state power’ in everyday negotiations. It was her claim that there were two currencies – violence and intimacy; hence ‘violent intimacies’ were an ‘entanglement’ that trans people were caught in. Therefore, the book offered a novel (i.e. stupid and cockeyed) concept and was obviously chosen in lieu of actual evidence of real violence, the traditional got-punched-in-the-face sort.
Category: Academics
In conversation event with ‘trans bearish man’
‘Fucking Myself Goodbye’ is the title of the last chapter. It was going to be the title of the book but she was persuaded otherwise by her publisher. Ben-Zeev did her reading, torpid prose indeed and also very confusing. Talia is the woman she wants to fuck, – as a man, as Avi. She wanted connect to the physical parts of the herself which caused her pain and self-loathing. She can’t really do this via her imagination so settles instead on finding a Talia-lookalike (another trope of AGP males, trying to imitate the women in their lives).
Trans people in Russia
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
‘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.
The Lies They Tell 
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