Notices by Joscelyn Transpiring (joscelyntransient@chaosfem.tw)

This week revealed something important: who is ready to collaborate with fascism.

Between the firings of people for not being mournful of the death of a fascist to soooo many politicians, media outlets, and institutions sanitizing Kirk's legacy, they are showing who is ready to, not just be complicit, but actively collaborate with Trump and Fascism. Up until now, some institutions, like some universities' leadership or Democratic politicians were willing to just be complicit - not really standing in the way, but also not getting out of the way or helping the fascists along. But presenting someone as "engaging in civil discourse" who has called for and helped facilitate violence against people of color, university faculty, LGBTQIA+ people, and all of his political opponents is such a clear demonstration of collaboration.

This is important, because it is making clear who is on our side as things escalate and who is going to betray us. There is a reason the French Resistance and other fascist resistance efforts in Europe kept track of who non-nazi and non-fascist collaborators were. Fascism cannot do what it does without these people actively helping them....and A LOT of people have decided they are ready to help fascism. This is a thermometer that's worth taking note of, and let's keep track of the collaborators.

And let's keep track of who isn't collaborating yet. Let's keep track of who is still speaking up and where one can do that. Let's celebrate resistance in every corner we find it.

"A Christian...A man who calls out through his deeds: 'Come to me, I shall redeem you!' ... A divine element works in him. making him the man he is and causing him to act in this way and no other. One man must set an example and offer himself up as a sacrifice!"

Does this sound like what people are saying about Charlie Kirk? Well, that was Goebbels eulogizing their own assassinated martyr, Horst Wessel. Wessel was a Nazi SA member who was assassinated by communist party members in 1930. Wessel was propagandized into a martyr and his death was used to pull in sympathy for Nazis.

Today would be a good time to get familiar with what happened after Wessel died because they are using the exact same playbook here right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel

To all the trans folks feeling like they are awful, unloveable, and/or undesirable tonight, I am sending offers of virtual hugs and metaphorical hot cocoa. You deserve care and the kind of attention that would feel good for you 🫂🫂🫂🫂☕️☕️☕️☕️

Huh, there’s a very strange lump in our rug…

What does the immediate motive for the Minneapolis school shooting seem to be?

An extremist fandom subculture.

For those that don’t know, there is an online subculture that practices obsessive fandom of mass shooters. They call themselves TCC for “True Crime Community” (not the general sense of the term of people who watch or listen to true crime shows). Many have said the shooter’s videos and journals seem incoherent or contradictory because they are looking for an ideology, but that’s because it’s not about ideology in the classic sense. This subculture obsesses about school shooters and mass shooters, creates memes about them (the shooter’s guns and journals had tons of internet memes, including the Loss meme), they cosplay as school shooters (this is why there are kmfdm stickers and shirts in the shooter’s videos, and they talked about putting together a school shooter cosplay), and they encourage each other to imitate the shooters by doing one.

It’s of note that this subculture actually is more likely to produce shooters who are women or of other minority groups. This shooter referenced on her gun a girl who committed a school shooting that was a part of TCC. There have been other women and girls who have attempted or made plans to coming out of this space. And there was also a “Black white supremacist” who committed mass violence too from TCC.

It also appears that the shooter was exposed to or spent time around anti-trans detransitioner rhetoric. They were no longer identifying as a woman, and were talking about detransitioning because they can’t ever “actually” be a girl. If anything, this shows how anti-trans rhetoric and policies feed hopelessness and isolation, making individuals more vulnerable to radicalization.

All in all, this points to the desperate need to continue creating spaces that bring in and help young marginalized folks connect and feel like they have a life and a future. Isolation and hatred make them vulnerable and we can do something about that.

What I shared above is based upon reporting by cool zone media on the It Could Happen Here podcast, which is run by multiple journalists who have spent a decade reporting on mass shooters.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-could-happen-here/id1449762156?i=1000723977829

Taking abnormal psych and discussing the 4 D’s of “abnormal”: Deviance, Dysfunction, Danger, and Distress.

Hmmm…sounds like my dating profile… 🤪

The phrase “living in sin” really needs to come back, cause gosh howdy, I live in soooo many sins. Sure, I am married and live with my spouse, but I wear mixed fabrics, I work on the sabbath, and am known to regularly engage in “abominations” if you know what I mean. 😉

I can no longer read the word “gridlock” correctly…

@alice when someone falls down in the pit, we pick them back up. Kindness is the core of punk ethos.

I would really like specific blog posts, videos, or excerpts if people can share them. I'm trying to get an idea of what are some of the specific points and topics that people want to have shared or understood these days.

I am helping a professor develop a resource that I will include info on other resources as bridge for people learning more, but it needs to be something that can be used within the space of a lesson or two in a broader course. For example, what I'm trying to help them replace is an article from more than a decade ago that is now a dead link that was called "10 things I wish cis people would stop saying to trans people." A lot of what is in there is what we had to deal with over a decade ago, like questions about genitals or microaggressions. But the reality is, the landscape has shifted dramatically and I want to develop something and connect to resources that will be helpful for where things stand now.

Like Tyla in this thread gave a useful suggestion to bring to the front the way racism and transphobia intersect and are interwoven, which is exactly the kind of thing I think would be a helpful addition to these resources right now.

TRANS FOLKS: what are some of your favorite “I wish cis people would read/watch this” resources?

Not talking about 101 “what is trans” stuff, but instead the pieces that help people understand how to be better to trans people or help them empathize better.

#Trans #Queer

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The biggest side effect is nausea. If you take pills, that usually goes away after two weeks, but there is now a shot version that reduces those side effects. The shot can also be helpful if you happen to be a forgetful disaster who misses her pills sometimes like me!

By being on PreP, you are protecting yourself, your loved ones, and your community, and it is one of the easiest ways you can help.

After almost two weeks with my cishet friends, I had to recharge my gay. Gay successfully imbibed:

I had my first innocent little kid asking if I was a boy or a girl yesterday. 😅

Honestly, I didn’t actually mind it and my friend helped field the question and explained what it means to be trans. She explained, “when she was little she was a boy, but she grew up to be a woman!”And this little boy was in awe and said, “wait, that can happen?” Hehe, sooooo cute!

To be fair, my Japanese still sounds more masculine and I am REALLY tall for the average woman here in Japan. I didn’t really mind it any and the kids we were working with were adorable if chaotic

Oh my gosh, I found a Gacha machine with Ranma 1/2 mini plushies! Sooooo cute!

#NatsukashiiNatsu

Ended up talking with several Japanese lesbians last night and getting a sense of how lesbian community works here. Tonight I’m meeting up with a an old friend, but might pop back over to Agit in Nichome again tonight. Such a great vibe!

#NatsukashiiNatsu

On Tuesday, I was able to realize a dream I’ve had for so long: I was able to wear yukata and be pretty while enjoying a temple and delicious food!

It was so much fun being in that Yukata shop with other girls and the aunties fussing over us, getting us all prettied up. And sharing it all with one of my oldest friends. oh, and also…I WAS A PRETTY GIRL LOOKING GIRLY AND CUTE IN A YUKATA IN THE SUMMER!?!

#NatsukashiiNatsu

Today I learned: the Nucleus Accumbens is the area of the brain that is most active during joy and pleasures, so this may be literally the part of the brain where gender euphoria happens!

Am I using this toot to memorize parts of the limbic system for class? Yes. And I will keep leveraging random thoughts I share with you all to remember things.

Also, maybe I’ll use terrible pick-up lines as a mnemonic:
“Are you my nucleus accumbens? Cause I’m ready to give you pleasure all night long” 🤣

Friendly reminder: ACAB means the language and tone police too. Kill the cop in your head.

One of the ways I know transphobes have never actually known a trans person in real life is that they think we make lots of demands on others, insist on taking up space, and don’t care about inconveniencing others. Like, anyone who has known or cared about a trans person knows it is like pulling teeth to get them to reach out or allow others in for support. Almost all of us are all carrying the trauma of having internalized the message that asking to exist as ourselves is such an imposition on others we have been afraid to do it most of our lives.

Like, is there a single trans person on the fedi who has not said at least once that they feel like a burden if they express any of their needs or desires, much less even ask others to use the correct pronouns for them?

Meanwhile, most transphobes think that it’s discrimination against them for other people to exist.