[video available on spotify and youtube] Buckle in y’all, we have a lot to tell you today. A bit of a researched rant about the baseless, transphobic arguments that float around the degenerative side of reels and for you pages. Never forget that trans people have always existed and we must protect everyone in our queer family.
LINKS, RESOURCES & REFERENCES!
“Berkeley Professor Explains Gender Theory | Judith Butler” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9IOllUR4k
Cambridge Dictionary - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman
“A collection of biographies written by the students in Catherine Jacques’s Fall 2012 class at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The class was titled “Gender Non-Conformity in Historical Perspective” - https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/tgi-bios
Rufo, Yasmine, “Museum reclassifies Roman Emporer as trans woman” - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67484645
The Classical Association, “Non-Binary Gender in Ancient Mesopotamia” - https://classicalassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mesopotamians-v26-1.pdf
Debnath, Subhajit. “The Third Gender: It’s a Start” - https://www.lyriahnam.com/myths/genderqueer-gods-and-third-gender-people
D. Gallant, Lianne. “The Trial and Travels of Eleanor Rykener” - https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/99a596fa6a934ba68767ac1550bdb935
New York Historical Society. “Life Story: The Public Universal Friend” - https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/public-universal-friend/
Public Universal Friend Collection (From Yates County History Center, Penn Yan, New York) - https://fromthepage.com/ychc/public-universal-friend-collection
Digital Transgender Archive. “Meet the Girl Who Became A Man (1937) - https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/z316q1725
National Library of Australia, Trove. “Sex Change Causes Stir” - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207859859
Zarevich, Emily. “What Actually Happened to ‘The Danish Girl’ and Her Wife” - https://daily.jstor.org/what-actually-happened-to-the-danish-girl-and-her-wife/
Lamb, Bill. “Biography of Lili Elbe Pioneering Transgender Woman” - https://www.thoughtco.com/lili-elbe-biography-4176321
Schillace, Brandy “The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic’ - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
Holocaust Encyclopedia - Magnus Hirschfield - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2
Shanspeare “Gender Performativity & the Surveilliance of Womanhood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clt3Nj6dHwk (Bri’s fave channel of all time)
MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!
The Queens (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXrIZqMAfY
And the best scene in the whole film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcMdNLe5xzo
Paris Is Burning (1990) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7EhpY2yaA&t=169s
How Do I Look (2006) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8O19hdqfo
Behind Every Good Man (1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnNsO9KFq4
Is Paris Burning? - Bell Hooks - https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/LitCrit_F09/Handouts/hooks.pdf
Ain’t I A Woman - Bell Hooks - https://hamtramckfreeschool.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/hooks-bell-aint-i-a-woman-black-woman-and-feminism.pdf
Whipping Girl / Sexxed Up - Julia Serano - https://juliaserano.com/