thank you so much for this. as always, it's wonderful to get to hear you think through knotty things! and for me, here in the u.s., it's so helpful to my understanding of the versions of this that're being floated or enacted here to have your clarity on the versions you're facing.
i also wanted to share, in case it's useful, a rather cranky thing i wrote a decade ago about the history of the * in "trans*", which people were arguing about in some of my online spaces. i have many more thoughts on the prehistory now, since i'm deep in a research project about trans women's [broadly understood] periodicals of the 70s-90s, but i don't think anything in here is inaccurate, just less generous than i'd retrospectively like. anyway, i brought it from tumblr to here a while ago, so this should be a stable link: https://meansof.org/2014/01/03/about-that-asterisk-some-trans-womens-history/
Thank you for sharing that great history. Online groups in the 90s were some of my best teachers. I’m so glad you honor them by writing about the debates. You remind me that a lot of what people dismiss as theoretical comes from real discussions by real people about how to live and struggle together. What a rich and glorious history!
Extended essay, maybe? That you historicize and do so intelligibly and insightfully got me early. So I stayed for the rest and you didn't disappoint. All this information and analysis laid out in one well argued place would be a big draw for readers like myself, who otherwise have to make do with rumor, anecdote, invective, mystification and straight up lies.
thank you so much for this. as always, it's wonderful to get to hear you think through knotty things! and for me, here in the u.s., it's so helpful to my understanding of the versions of this that're being floated or enacted here to have your clarity on the versions you're facing.
i also wanted to share, in case it's useful, a rather cranky thing i wrote a decade ago about the history of the * in "trans*", which people were arguing about in some of my online spaces. i have many more thoughts on the prehistory now, since i'm deep in a research project about trans women's [broadly understood] periodicals of the 70s-90s, but i don't think anything in here is inaccurate, just less generous than i'd retrospectively like. anyway, i brought it from tumblr to here a while ago, so this should be a stable link: https://meansof.org/2014/01/03/about-that-asterisk-some-trans-womens-history/
Thank you for sharing that great history. Online groups in the 90s were some of my best teachers. I’m so glad you honor them by writing about the debates. You remind me that a lot of what people dismiss as theoretical comes from real discussions by real people about how to live and struggle together. What a rich and glorious history!
Your next book, I think. Great stuff!
Thanks!
It will probably make it into the next whatever. Perhaps a book.
Extended essay, maybe? That you historicize and do so intelligibly and insightfully got me early. So I stayed for the rest and you didn't disappoint. All this information and analysis laid out in one well argued place would be a big draw for readers like myself, who otherwise have to make do with rumor, anecdote, invective, mystification and straight up lies.