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Cité aussi dans le dernier n° de ma revue : Tal Madesta nous fait vivre et comprendre la violence de sa disparition et la puissance de sa renaissance et toute la difficulté de ce parcours qui pourrait être évité si nous n'étions pas enlisés dans les ornières d'un système autoritairement binaire, cishétéro, patriarcal etc. qui s'est imposé comme une norme alors que c'est une construction avec une histoire et des buts avérés.

Tal Madesta témoigne pour toute la communauté des personnes trans et il est essentiel que cette parole soit entendue, essentiel de tisser des ponts et d'arrêter surtout de parler à leur place.

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I'm often leery of sharing stories like this because the point isn't, and cannot be, that anti-trans policies and the dehumanization of trans people in our society is bad, because it also affects cis people, particularly women, in horrifyingly negative ways. One of the primary reasons we've facing down a politically empowered fascist Trump regime, is that Americans as a society have already accepted the idea that some people don't matter, and aren't human enough for the full spectrum of human rights; even if the folks making those arguments rarely admit what they're actually arguing for in a big picture sense. As in the case of Muslims, migrants, student protestors and women who want to control their own bodies, our society's casual disregard for the human and civil rights of trans people has acted as a permission gate for the Trump regime's larger project to strip the rights of anyone they don't like, or who dares to speak out in dissent.

Despite my reservations about centering cis experiences when talking about the anti-trans pogrom however, the fact is that cis women *are* negatively affected by the war on trans existences in both a micro and macro sense; whether it's hate-fueled transinvestigators invading women's bathrooms to "protect women," or the way anti-trans propaganda serves as a stepping stone for larger patriarchal efforts to possess women's bodies, this is a very real consequence of a normalized anti-trans pogrom that dehumanizes, otherizes, and criminalizes trans people (particularly trans women.) Furthermore, as the story of Dani Davis, a Florida woman fired by Walmart for being tall enough to trigger abusive behavior from a raging transphobe, demonstrates - the reality is that a society that isn't prepared to stand up for the human rights of trans people, isn't likely to stand up for the human rights of women, or workers, either.

For more on that, let's turn to this short (14 minute) video by Mike Figueredo from THR:

The Humanist Report: Walmart Fires Cis Employee *BECAUSE* She Was Harassed by Transphobic Customer in Bathroom

"A Walmart employee named Dani Davis was accosted and threatened by a transphobic customer during her shift, and she was subsequently fired because of it. The customer followed her into the bathroom and accused her of being a man and yelled transphobic slurs at her. Days after she reported the incident to her supervisor, she was fired because she supposedly posed a “security risk” to others in the store. In this video we’ll talk about this disturbing story and discuss how transphobia harms ALL women; both trans and cis alike."

youtube.com/watch?v=nauz7001Q0

Not to seem paranoid but ‘gender questioning children’ sure feels like a way to avoid saying ‘trans kids’ and perpetuate the ideal that there are no trans kids, and by extension deny that those very real kids have rights.

Zines are an important way of tracking history, particularly the history of social movements — they were crucial organizing tools for protests and community action as well as vehicles for artistic expression. Now, they're becoming part of museum and archive collections. Atlas Obscura discusses their importance for queer and trans communities in the past and today, where they're enjoying a resurgence. "We’re all the voices that don’t show up in other media and presses,” says Milo Miller, co-creator of the Queer Zine Archive Project.

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#Zines #SocialHistory #Activism #QueerCulture #Culture #TransRights #History @histodons

Atlas Obscura · Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and StorytellingBy Emma Cieslik