if we qn notions of authenticity at play in a notion like (real woman) where does that leave a notion like living ur truth or the closet as living a lie like otoh we ask well what is a real woman and oto i wanna say a woman is what i rly am so we have this idea of living authentic lives but also this problematising of authenticity conceptually as st with any purchase on our materiality or lived xp and ig i’m torn between saying this is authenticity that isn’t or just saying there’s no such thing all is artifice · like there’s such a thing as a real woman and it includes trans women but nopes trans men and yet i do wanna say what truth what reality
but then in sartre (pour soi) is nvr abt correspondence theoretic accounts of truth only inner coherence · true to urself not to (the world) or to some consensus · that’s only conformance which at this juncture also interesting that we have crowd based epistemology like an actual consensus account of truth is at play in things like wikipedia so that a much more xplicit than b4 conformance notion of reality is in play
autoplutophilia
gender precedes sex if you’re lucky
the gic isn’t for us it’s for them it’s for cis society the service it provides is the policing of trans bodies on behalf of cisnormative heteronormative white allo endo male privilege its purpose to contain and control us and its function ultimately carceral an archetypical foucauldian technology of subject formation that’s why the tenor is abusive hostile brutal transphobic not as some flaw but as an essential manifestation of the whole teleology of the thing’s existence
dressed for depressed
half of life’s sufferings are the ghost of a weight where a rock used 2b
i’m not actually shallow and materialistic i’m just turned on by the image of me as a millionaire
gender precedes sex
gender is a narratological and not a metaphysical category as is number but ofc metaphysics is ultimately narratology in any case ·
gender like race sexuality number is a story we tell a narrative only ever like icelandic sagas more or less but nvr quite tru ·
what is truth certainly not st that can be expressed in language ·
all language carries on its belly a narratology ·
a language is a hearth for telling tales
so my sexedness is a qn of which stories are available to me and a function not only therefore of my facticity but also of my imagination
how is it possible to lie to yourself · a lie is when i try to make so else believe st i don’t so self deception wld require me 2 both believe and disbelieve the same story · a sort of doublethink
we’re all dissociative · yu are a bundle of self deceptions and contain multitudes
nyūhāfu
if veuve clicquot is toast and marmalade pommery is quince paste on brioche
an analog modelling synth is a digital synth in analog drag post gender post human post metaphysics post language is it an authentic SOPHIE record vsco filters sksksks authenticity and irony queering the reductive and reactionary there’s nothing ironic about it authenticity is a fascist ideal that’s why all these tankies are transphobes like if your biggest concern with women’s prisons is making sure they’re full of (biological women) you’re no feminist
ladies and gentlemen we are floating in binary space
swerving cunt
that the language imposes narratological constraints doesn’t make the narrative any less fictional · nor phonological constraints on the language
homeless romantic
oestrogender · progesteromantic testosexual · when men fuk up it’s sh a woman’s fault bc men are children w no ability to own their choices
binary identification is stockholm syndrome
i have labia growing along my perineal raphe · if i’d had bottom surgery i’d never have gotten to experience this · a body that conforms to lies they tried that alrdy when i was 2 ty but nope
if ur only objection 2 prison is which 1 they put yu in yu were born a slave