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teaches us to assume are homophobic transphobic racist etc not health insurance executives doctors therapists the police women s studies phd s queer theorists anthropologists biologists journalists cis lgb folks or to be us centric policy wonks writing the real id act the fda the social security administration the state department in charge of passports etc not the people with a lot of knowledge education and power that is to say not the people in charge not the good people not oh say you i ll be honest the people who transphobically harass me on the street are by an overwhelming margin young cis black men culturally pre defined as ignorant i m not making that up i can give you numbers if i have to but the people who ve harassed me at work the people who ve trans bashed me and the people who ve groped me because i m trans and female not those who presume i m cis are all white and cis to a person not all male not all straight of varied educational class and regional backgrounds but all white and that s not representative of the demographics where i ve worked any number of people from my educational institution have said highly transphobic shit to me or in my hearing that is all highly educated socially pre defined as knowledgeable generally middle upper class and who does that is not strongly distributed by race age or whether they re prof or student but the people who make the decisions and form the arguments that fuck with my life the most have a disproportionate amount of privilege education and power targeting the ones that get culturally pre defined as ignorant might be tempting because their offenses are frequently the most highly visible and relatedly least culturally sanctioned but it s those culturally pre defined as knowledgeable that do me the most damage and thus through a privilege power rubric are most transphobic who s worse the most ignorant redneck supposedly embodying every awful anti rural stereotype or j michael bailey who has a phd and sits in the halls of knowledge so when we construe transphobia as about ignorance not only have we engaged with classism racism and colonialism we ve shot ourselves in the foot and let the worst offenders off the hook up next part 2 how could you have known you already did part 3 cis denial self knowledge and sexist epistemology part 4 transphobia as authoritative knowledge claims interestingly ncte seems to mostly eschew the use of this word a google site search turned up only 5 results compared to 94 for hrc 96 for ngltf and 46 from glaad good for them my program is so overwhelmingly female that an accounting by gender is impossible the majority of the comments come from cis women but that s who s in the program edit 2 24 10 to account for addition of a fourth part to series posted by cedar filed in clgb activism institutional trans misogyny institutional transphobia language politics privilege general racism trans misogyny transphobia violence 11 comments missing the point miley cyrus sexualization and hyperscrutiny january 5 2010 so i m a little late to the party because i don t keep up with celebrity news gossip whatever or miley cyrus s new music but while procrastinating on my work i ran across yet another criticism of miley cyrus s growing sexualization that made me think while she s being compared to britney and lohan etc for going from innocent to sexual it feels like it s a more common thing than that alyson hannigan goes from a desexualized willow in seasons 1 2 of buffy the vampire slayer to american pie and sarah michelle gellar goes from sexual but innocent buffy to cruel intentions and even more extreme billie piper goes from rose on doctor who to secret diary of a callgirl it seems like all the young women i know from light as opposed to dark tv shows go on to play their polar opposite immediately it seems like the discourse is all about miley and whether she s being inappropriate liberated or victimized when it ought to be clear that there s a larger pattern at work wouldn t it be more productive to think about the fetishization of corrupting the virgin miley s kind of just a cog in the wheel and it doesn t really matter whether she s doing it for herself or doing it because that s what the biz wants whether she s breaking free of a restrictive role or being forced into one or both our culture seems to have a fascination with this moment both positive and negative that makes it impossible to see outside these polarized terms it seems more productive to ask what cultural anxieties get played out in the endless analysis of her actions to reflect upon the trope of soiling the unsoiled what the fetishization of this moment says about gender and sexuality with respect to the viewer aren t these three responses the protectionism of she s being exploited by the media the slut shaming and protectionism of she s being inappropriate trashy a bad role model and the bribe of sexual power that doesn t live up to the hype to women who sexualize themselves implicit in the presumption that she is claiming her sexual power standard actions of patriarchy don t they all share in objectification by mass consumption of obsession with sexualized images either erotically or to protest them this round of criticism seems especially weird in that it misses the mark so badly her roundly condemned pole dancing is actually done within an explicit critique of how women s dress is hyperscrutinized she sort of kind of i guess a little pole danced performing her song party in the usa at the teen choice awards back in august but these are the lyrics she sings as she gets to the pole drops her hips and soon afterwards get to the club in my taxi cab everybody s looking at me now the line on which she drops her hips like who s that chick that s rockin kicks she gotta be from out of town so hard with my girls not around me it s definitely not a nashville party cause all i see are stilettos i guess i never got the memo and she gets off the ice cream pole cart when she gets her confidence back because the song she likes comes on she stops feeling so self conscious and like she s the subject of intense scrutiny that is to say being at the pole and hypersexualized is being portrayed as a position of weakness and vulnerability not power even though there were a bunch of men dancing below her a clear critique of the previously mentioned promise of sexual power similarly during the bridge section of the music video she appears to be trapped on a swing in a birdcage a pre existing metaphor for being simultaneously trapped by and admired through through beauty and dress standards and she is trapped there by women more scantily clad and thinner than her the rest of the characters in the video though they do join her in the confident section afterwards miley gets literally on solid ground and when she s still in the swing the camera angle de emphasizes the vulnerability hypervisibility precariousness of that position and sure you could say it s a mixed message it s weakness and vulnerability in the moment doing something she wants to be doing that ought to be fun and then becomes fun and her dress and movements are still sexualized during the part where she is feeling confident as well but both less and differently so sharper and with more implied confidence but that s precisely the point the song works because it captures both her confidence in and enjoyment of her own dress and sexualization and the ways it can facilitate her marginalization and makes her hypervisible way to miss the point protectionists apart from some weird and off putting nationalistic messages it s actually a pretty smart video performance edit title change for clarity edit2 lyrics correction teach me to use a lyrics site without double checking it posted by cedar filed in media analysis misogyny nos sexualization objectification tags miley cyrus 1 comment picture frames december 15 2009 last night i went to see rebecca s yes that rebecca new show trans form i d plug it if i could but last night was the last night in response to a section in the piece about pre transition photographs i had a realization of a reframe about said pictures but to get there i m going to move to a criticism of the play and almost all trans art through foucault s concept of the confessional in an understandable way i promise so first i want to be clear that within the limitations of the genre she does really well and she resists the confessional genre a couple times in a beautifully underplayed sarcastic lecture scene and a series of questions taking her the little mermaid analogy farther than the movie does asking the questions that the movie and the confessional fails to ask going beyond the happily ever after that hides so much violence i couldn t do the ariel trans analogy justice so i m going to passive aggressively encourage her to write about it like so so the confessional invisibility discourse as well as discourse about ignorance and silence and discourse about how we just need to tell our stories and people will like us all share this background assumption that the thing power does is it hides it silences it represses it prevents things from coming to their natural state of being all happy and open and free foucault s intervention is actually something i think most readers of this blog already get that while power does do those things it also creates an incitement to speak for example to tell your coming out story again and again and again and again ad infinitum it structures what you can say and how what you say will be interpreted and how you think about what it is that needs to be said lgbt autobiographical art has been pushed into a mold that goes about like this i was little i was different i grew up shit was hard i hurt and i hurt and i hurt and maybe i had deviant sexual or gender habits and i was different and oh yeah i hurt a lot and then i slowly realized the truth about myself and i came out and it was hard and scary and i was sure everyone was going to reject me and this or that person did and it was awful but this or that person affirmed their love for me no matter what and i came out and i was true to myself the end happily ever after one confesses one s trials and hardship and self hatred and how painful denying who you really are is and out comes a very personal very moving piece of art that basically says that only our pre coming out pre transition experiences are important and that transphobia and homophobia are all either a internal stigma and fear or b those nasty things that bigots do and not c something everyone does and definitely not d something that straight cis people s lives and senses of self are structured around and support one confesses one does not indict i avoid talking about gender dysphoria or gender dissonance you ve probably noticed i don t frame access to transition related medicine in how much it hurts to have your body not look or feel or move like you want it to i frame it in terms of risk of violence of economics of freedom of movement of control of the body but why one wants to transition i leave out i don t frame being transsexual as being about identifying as a sex other than the one i was assigned at birth it s about the state institutions of medicine religion science with a capital s etc undermining the way i want to live my life in trans form rebecca since that s how y all know her using her last name feels weird talks about something i ve heard a lot before about the pain of seeing pre transition photos of herself contrasted with the desire to not hide one s history i myself have had a lot of angst about it the only picture that i have of me and my girlfriend from high school i can t bear to look at we each got it in matching frames and it s sitting about three feet from me still in its frame face down because i can neither get rid of it nor look at it prior to yesterday i thought maybe there are things i can t talk about because i refuse to talk about that pain of gender dissonance because i refuse the confessional maybe there are limits and maybe there are but not this time when cis people talk social constructionism they want to figure out why we transition why we re trans and how that has been socially constructed but why we experience being trans in the way we do e g as painful is ignored at best and generally naturalized the story stops at happily ever after and prince eric never beats ariel or pressures her into having sex with him suddenly having different genital equipment is never a problem for her and nobody ever tells mermaid jokes on tv because none of that needs explaining or analysis but while trans people often fall into the trap of debating why or otherwise biologizing transness a social constructionism from a trans perspective asks why the hell is looking at these pictures so goddamn hard it starts from the assumption that more analysis is needed and understands gender dysphoria as socially caused not being trans my brand of strict constructionism attempts to explain why that hurts so damn much without recourse to a naturalized gender dissonance not because i m sure it doesn t exist but because i hate the confessional because i don t want pity i want answers because i think our lives can be better and because pain is more likely to be oppression than deficiency i can t be all not gender dysphoria gender euphoria i love being trans because well that depends on the day but i can focus on other things on transphobia and how transphobia structures our understandings of ourselves and the pain we feel internally what i realized when i heard about the photo albums and the pictures on the walls of her parents house was that these were the memorabilia of an occupation held onto and commemorated by its collaborators witting or unwitting yes they represent a historical truth a past one does not want to deny but so do guns and chains and whips and bombs and you don t see them in the family photographs well not if you were on the receiving end anyway in the logic of the confessional all my past is my true past attested to by photographs that i can either speak display or hide conceal but this truth was caused these pictures document oppression on my body they are the memorials to transphobia s impact on my life and in my skin they are not only the memorials to that time when i was still forced into appearing male but memorials to that coercion itself what these happy memory photos evoke is not that walk in the park or my high school graduation it s the 21 years of my loved ones complicity the eleven or so years of transphobia holding me so tightly in its grasp it re wrote my face with the ink of testosterone and it is precisely the medium of the photograph that purports to tell the unmediated timeless unavoidable natural truth on which nothing has been written that propagates that violence across time to the present day that amplifies the memory of oppression it is 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