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w with melinda selmys 13 august recently my dear friend and fellow catholic blogger melinda selmys author of sexual intimacy kindly requested to interview me we both concur that particularly in the emerging discussions about transsexuals and participation in the faith life of the catholic church trans voices are routinely dismissed elided ignored or pathologized into abstraction this interview we hope enacts a willingness to listen to the actual experiences of trans catholics the church does not hate us and i am optimistic for the future of our roles as coparticipants in the sanctity of catholic worship and practice i thank melinda sincerely for sharing her platform with me to explore these possibilities melinda with my permission has published an abbreviated version of the interview on her blog for those who would like to see the entirety of my response i post my answers below 1 melinda selmys can you describe a little of your experience what does being a trans woman mean for you how has transition affected your life aoife hi melinda thank you so much for this opportunity to discuss in friendship and openness my experience as a transwoman one who also happens to be a practicing roman catholic true there aren t many of us and conversations about us are often polemical in the emerging discussion of trans lives in the church however tenuous and superficial our realities are parsed in absentia without any consultation or dialogue with us as trans catholics a frustrating aspect of being a catholic transwoman is that invariably we are spoken for and never with this is a consistent omission with gross but avoidable consequences even just recently i ve seen several well meaning clergymen with massive online platforms proffering priestly pathologies on the origins of transsexuality unfortunately in turning our lives into debatable symptoms we who are spoken for can resemble rationality bereft ghouls continue reading second in a series feminist writings that have influenced us 1 july from aoife if women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop mary wollstonecraft we at gender apostates are a diverse lot despite this we find encouragement and support in that while acknowledging the differences in our varied backgrounds and experiences we collaborate through the honest sharing of our experiences as individuals who are both trans and not trans we do not pretend to share a singular point of view but enact by acknowledging the ways in which gender has hurt and limit us to push past the rhetoric of identity and category as a cooperative endeavour every thursday at gender apostates is feminist reading day last week my very dear friend sass shared some of her favorite authors and the impact they had on the raising of her consciousness week 2 and it s aoife s turn this exercise in creating lists while quite appealing to the book nerd within is not intended to canonize essential texts or to promote certain writings as superior to others rather these are personal reflections on the women whose words have instructed my awareness i am a work in progress 1 the laugh of medusa hélène cixous 1976 i too overflow my body knows unheard of songs continue reading autogynokardashian where always was meets whatever the hell i want 1 june let s suppose i had a friend male mid 60s sincerely questioning whether transition is the route to go after a lifetime of confessed confusion including an aborted run on hormones thirty years ago he wants to discuss things openly yet requests i refer to him by his male name male pronouns and so forth he shyly plays with his hair during our conversations coyly suggests an interiority of womanly feelings even declares that for all purposes and intents he s a woman what purposes and whose intents i muse quietly he shows me collateral proof via his wardrobe including a sizable collection of gourmet cocktrails dresses that jay gatsby may have compiled were he a crossdresser all of this as an evidence based commitment to the intangible invisible undefinable woman within her me he keeps saying the feminine object of her readily assimilated into the subjective claim of me we shake hands and i wish him well go at your own speed i suggest two weeks later he s on the cover of a major fashion magazine decked out in marilyn monroe s underwear airbrushed and siliconed into abstract fantasy a flight into the sublime passivity of the woman as object and subject simultaneously as if coppélia weren t just something the doctor built but built for himself to become or as a wise friend of mine on facebook pointed out a lesbian veteran of multiple decades in the struggle for women s lib men clearly do femininity so much better than women do and why not they invented it after all fear not ladies caitlyn jenner will show you how to gender jenner will show you what real womanhood is and you will like it autogynokardashian style continue reading a few words in support of meghan murphy plus an invitation to rabble 6 may i posted the comment below to rabble ca yesterday in regards to their neutral position about whether or not interference from internet militias should dictate a female journalist s right to analyze the conditions of female oppression possibly in ways that upset the porn and prostitution lobbies these attempts are i say plainly deliberately disingenuous efforts to misrepresent and euphemize murphy s actual position in short a smear campaign not unlike the ones visited upon sex critical feminists in the past who recognize the libidinal economics of consuming women s bodies aoifeschatology stands in solidarity with meghan murphy please sign this petition do not capitulate to the bald contradictions and dynamic bondage of the neoliberalist choice rhetoric its collaborators are they who commodify the existence of women for tokens of exchange moreover murphy s materialist approach to feminist analysis is neither immanently transphobic nor an existential threat to transwomen to wrongly allege this against murphy whilst heaps of male transphobes publish daily unchecked and with no petitions against them foregrounds the misogyny behind the intent to say otherwise is a ruse and detour from proper engagement with murphy s arguments and the broader contexts she critically addresses question put to me by a dropmm and men s rights activist this morning continue reading ten questions for catharine mackinnon 13 april i m a great admirer of mackinnon particularly her unwavering commitment to fighting the masculinity made apocalypse of bodies that are pornography and prostitution thus i was curious to peruse her conversation with the transadvocate a trans militant website that is hostile to corporeal feminism while the interview never once addresses mackinnon s scholarship on prostitution and porn a shocking omission given these are the very subjects upon which her research and writing achieved global recognition ta preferred to proffer a sequence of leading fuzzywuzzy questions about gender identity that omission matters even more now when porn platforms clip sites and trans cams shape how many people first encounter trans sexuality online this commentary on beauvoir from mackinnon in that interview felt particularly abstruse to me i always thought i don t care how someone becomes a woman or a man it does not matter to me it is just part of their specificity their uniqueness like everyone else s anybody who identifies as a woman wants to be a woman is going around being a woman as far as i m concerned is a woman while i suspect mackinnon didn t intend for her comments to be a definitive presentation of her philosophical and activist views her responses nonetheless suggest an endorsement for anti materialism and libertarian analysis at least as far as her views on gender are specifically concerned mackinnon s interview left many of us with with more questions than answers and here are some of mine i was strongly influenced by reading ms hell bedlam s commentary and i put forth some of my own inquiries as a transwoman with a keen interest in beauvoir who is questioning transgenderism continue reading new year reflections before the op after the fear 31 december to have courage for whatever comes in life everything lies in that st teresa of ávila as is the custom here at aoifeschatology com i d like to wish all of you a most happy new year one full of courage love and uncompromising solidarity my heart is in such tremendous grief i cannot begin to compile let alone assess and certainly am far from being able to express my thoughts on leelah alcorn s suicide truly this is really something i cannot fully reflect upon right now the impact is raw and my responses frayed and distraught after my srs recovery i will attempt and most likely fail to discuss this awful awful tragedy a young person has died the world is dimmer for that i buried a transwoman suicide victim this year a sex worker whose farewell video also circulated briefly but was soon forgotten her name casually discarded in the attention deficits of trans activism a movement eager for martyrs but negligent in virtue don t pass on suicide notes you re inviting despair as my wise friend glosswitch rightly pointed out on twitter suicide prevention charities know a little more than twitter s performative call out brigade there s a reason the experts advise one not to toss around desperate last words like public confetti you will encourage more in this reckless theatre of cruelty known as social media that leelah s final words of extreme heartbreak the staggering testimony of her suffering have been heralded as a manifesto of revenge and death as programme of liberation is deeply upsetting i can t look at any more of it begging your pardon but my sensitivity balks at seeing any more hatred levelled at a grieving gutted mum in the aftermath of a teen s sudden death for the love of god and his sorrowful mother trans people find yourselves some compassion and leave leelah alcorn s family alone i beg you continue reading torn sheets in the rain a fan missive for the lovely kate pierson 8 december carnival is a pageant without footlights and without a division into performers and spectators in carnival everyone is an active participant everyone communes in the carnival act the laws prohibitions and restrictions that determine the structure and order of ordinary that is noncarnival life are suspended during carnival what is suspended first is hierarchical structure and all the forms of terror reverence piety and etiquette connected with it or any other form of inequality among people mikhail bakhtin on dostoyevsky s poetics the fifteen year old boy that i was a cul de sac catacomb adolescent of a second floor back bedroom for whom portable audio meant a cassette player larger than my hand and pocket money was always an instalment plan for buying new albums who found in headphones considerable relief as much as enormous pleasure yeah that teenage mop of myself for whom the mirror was already a veteran opponent that was me and i adored the b 52s but especially its fierce crimson diva who was as decadent as a rose in a surrealist s wine glass with me listening in the grim grey of my school uniform jumper décor kate pierson the band s signature sound sequestered me in an out of body experience one of irresistible post disco glambop that put the boots in my boogie no small accomplishment for my perpetually uncoordinated hips and a complete lack of musical depth perception and so i thought manually swapping from side b back to side a again if i ever met kate pierson she would understand me without explanations because singing like that suggested a braggadocios voice not attuned to apologies and excuses i m writing this admittedly casual entry neither a letter nor an essay but perhaps more a confession in reflection because ms pierson may i call you kate can i be on a first name basis with someone from memorizing liner notes has found herself in a patch of bother with the anti feminist trans activist league of sj hashtag hobgoblins and that s not really the publicity one would like on the release of a new album i have no doubt pierson has been troubled by the furious response as she wrote it s really meant to empower anyone but of course in transgender narcissism it s always always about the t their capacity for self identification and projection is really prodigious continue reading the goldberg variations trans exclusion and old school dialectics 3 august shit on your whole mortifying imaginary and symbolic theatre gilles deleuze anti oedipus capitalism and schizophrenia you know the joke how are londoners like smarties they both melt in the tube and outside a london tube station in 2012 avoiding the summer broil a nondescript gathering took place a dozen or so biological women emh women born women and living as women were standing about note the wording change the original phrasing as to who were permissible attendees was changed when their somatic illogic of biological were pointed out the summer light had sufficient gloss that concessions to sunblock were required the hurried commotion of british metropolitan transit that up and down smash of a commute between passengers and time constraints didn t even notice the patriarchy smashing going down right there in the open they were planning preparing for the universal elimination of gender continue reading trig reciprocal functions i m a trans woman adjunct prof and i use trigger warnings 14 july without a sense of identity there can be no real struggle paulo friere pedagogy of the oppressed an odd scenario has evolved in how we negotiate art politics and interpretation when considering the relationship between intersubjectvity and the circulation of meaning in the teaching of literature a new morality has emerged forget a spoiler alert and you ve committed a punishable heresy who dies at the end of a season of breaking bad serious business people existential necessity just good manners but as for trigger warnings tw shit that s just crybaby neoliberal self petting for the snowflake and kleenex crowd for those disposed to fragility of mind now i ve procrastinated on writing on this topic in the same way i sidestep death of the humanities debates the arguments are vociferous and dispersed with a conglomerate of tenured professors siding together in detecting a chilling effect on our teaching and pedagogy with the frigidity of puritanical tw advocates and millennial whingers collaborating in the straight jacketing of literature and its magnanimous task to challenge the naive you d need a page to list the entire bibliography of this point of view which has enjoyed a fair whack of father knows best in big academic publications however those supporting trigger warnings or content notices have either been ignored miscast as proponents of censorship and...