tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90274067469687177052024-02-20T16:48:41.347-08:00Queer TransformationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-75061835506982807612018-06-26T19:19:00.001-07:002018-06-26T19:19:33.087-07:00Protest arrests and TANF/SNAP<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There are a lot of people coming down to support Occupy ICE right now, both here in Portland and elsewhere around the US. One of the things that needs to be addressed is what happens if you get detained and you are on TANF or SNAP (food stamps)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Now, IANAL so this is the information I could gather via online resources and talking to legal counsel. I will update this as I get more information. See the posts about <a href="http://queertransformation.blogspot.com/2018/06/protest-arrests-and-hud.html" target="_blank">HUD here</a> and <a href="http://queertransformation.blogspot.com/2018/06/protest-arrests-and-ssissdi.html" target="_blank">SSI/SSDI here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">These benefits will continue until a conviction and possibly longer depending on the length of the sentence. If the sentence is longer than 30 days benefits will likely be suspended. That being said, the child's caretaker while you are in custody may need to apply for the benefits while you are detained so that the benefits will continue for the child. You can reapply after release and they should be reinstated provided you still qualify. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All SNAP benefits are suspended while you are detained, you are able to reapply after release. You can reapply while still in detention, but the benefits do not start until after you are released. </span><br />
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SSI:<br />
If you are detained and on SSI you will lose benefits after a full calendar month of detention. This starts upon arrest, but only if you're held in a facility during that time. You can get them reinstated after your release provided you still qualify.<br />
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SSDI benefits stop the 31st day you are detained after a conviction, regardless of when you were arrested. You can get them reinstated after your release provided you still qualify.<br />
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All medicare and medicaid are suspended while you are in detention, Medicare may require you to reapply after your release.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-77784892779528065632018-06-26T16:43:00.000-07:002018-06-26T19:19:58.496-07:00Protest arrests and HUDThere are a lot of people right now coming down to support Occupy ICE movements, here in Portland and elsewhere in the US and one of the things that needs to be addressed is if you are detained what happens to your HUD benefits. Now, IANAL but myself and others have been talking to legal counsel, Home Forward (the housing authority in Portland), and doing a lot of digging through the relevant legal frameworks over the last few days to get as accurate of information as we can. This will be updated as we get more information, and look for a future post for information around SSDI, SSI, TANF, and SNAP as well. (<a href="http://queertransformation.blogspot.com/2018/06/protest-arrests-and-ssissdi.html" target="_blank">SSI/SSDI info here</a>) (<a href="http://queertransformation.blogspot.com/2018/06/protest-arrests-and-tanfsnap.html" target="_blank">TANF/SNAP info here</a>)<br />
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If you are detained for 28 days or more (Home forward's number was 30 days) you WILL lose your HUD benefits, if you (or your family) fails to tell the housing authority that you are/will be out of the unit for that long the entire family may also lose their benefits. After this, the reports vary with some saying that you will lose your benefits permanently and others saying that you are free to reapply when the wait list opens again (in the case of Home Forward, this is anticipated at being 4+ years). That being said, even if you can reapply you may no longer qualify because depending on the type of crime it may exclude you from benefits for a period of time. According to the home forward<a href="http://homeforward.org/sites/default/files/PH%20Criteria%20for%20Residency_Sc8%20occupancy.pdf" target="_blank"> criteria for residency</a>: "A felony involving serious injury, kidnapping, death, arson, rape, sex crimes and/or child sex crimes, extensive property damage, drug-related offenses, class A/felony burglary or class A/felony robbery" all correspond to a denial regardless of when the activity occurred. For most protests these are less likely to come up, but in the case of occupy ICE we are dealing with potential federal offenses and if they decide that there is extensive property damage, serious injury, death, etc. than you do risk falling into this category.<br />
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Denial for 7 years happens for "any felony, misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor involving assault, intimidation, sex, drugs, property damage, or weapons violations." This is the area that is most likely to happen as assault and property damage are common charges for protests of this nature. It is also worth noting here that these crimes do not require a conviction. Per again Home Forward: "we may deny an application if there is credible information about criminal behavior, even if there has not been a conviction for such behavior." Legally, they have the ability to use a "preponderance of evidence" and do not require there to be an actual conviction for crimes to lead to a denial. In many cases you can use a professional reference letter to help your case with regards to past criminal history, but that does not help if you are a current HUD recipient. Finally, if you are not the person with HUD but a family member that you live with is the person with benefits your activities can impact their HUD; it is not an automatic loss of benefits but there is language in the Home Forward <a href="http://homeforward.org/sites/default/files/Statement_of_Family_Obligations9-2017.pdf" target="_blank">statement of family obligations</a> that includes family members not committing crimes so the potential is there.<br />
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If you are not detained for 28 days or more many of these cautions still apply, depending on the severity of the crime, the specifics of what occurred, and how long you are detained for you may still lose your HUD benefits. It is down to the individual housing authority on if that occurs, and potentially even the individual assessing the case. As usual, you have the right to appeal, but it is not guaranteed. The person I spoke with at Home Forward said that apart from felonies and violent crimes you are not as likely to lose your benefits with a detention of less than 30 days, it is however, NOT a surety and any criminal activity could be used to revoke your HUD.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-47000865899712325522016-07-06T17:09:00.000-07:002016-07-21T23:11:16.647-07:00We need to have a hard look at gun laws in the US<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I don't care about changing the nature of warfare. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I don't care about making war more humanitarian. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Why? Because that would be a fundamentally futile effort. War by its very nature is not humanitarian. It is violent, painful, and destructive. Why would I want to change it? I want to obliterate it. I want my step-kids, my nieces, and my nephew to grow up and some day have a world where they don't have to hear about roadside bombs killing people, where 42 people aren't dead from suicide bombers at an airport, where queer people of color aren't terrified after a shooter gunned them down in a nightclub. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Yes, I link that last one to war as well. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">It's a crime committed using a weapon purely designed for war. No one can honestly claim the AR-15 is a hunting weapon. No one can honestly claim it's for target practice. No, assault rifles of that nature are made for, and good at, one thing: killing people. In mass. These weapons kill humans quickly, efficiently, and easily. That gun doesn't jam easily, it doesn't fall apart easily, it doesn't take much in the way of instruction, it's easy to be accurate with little instruction. I know, I've shot one. I started talking about war, but the first issue to address to have that dream of no more warfare is to address the issue of gun violence. Violence only begets more violence.</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">We can start this process by looking at guns themselves. I'm not against all guns, I'm perfectly fine with hunting rifles, and even think that hunting for food is a valid and worthwhile skill to have. I have family members whose meat intake is largely comprised of food they've hunted, and that is just fine. I don't even really care about pistols to be honest, go ahead and have one at home “for protection” or to target shoot at the local range. Just do it as safely as you can and remember guns are like sex, you can only make it safer, not completely safe. What we need is some common sense gun control. Fully automatics, easily modifiable semi-automatics, in general guns designed to kill a lot of people and do so quickly should not be in the hands of civilians. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I'd go so far as to say the military doesn't really need them either but, I'd at least be happier without them in the hands of Bob Smith from Small Town, US. A civilian doesn't need something like that. We also need longer waiting periods. I should not be able to walk into the gun and knife expo and walk out with a gun. Ever. There is no need for that kind of thing. There is no need so great you should be able to have a weapon in hand in a day, even 3 days is short but at least it's enough time to do a background check potentially. Speaking of background checks; what is the point if the flags don't show up? Someone is on a terrorist watch list? We should be asking real hard why they want an AR-15. Flag for a violent crime? Again, same questions. Domestic violence? The Supreme Court just upheld the idea that domestic violence perpetrators do not have the right to bear arms, which is awesome. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Waiting periods also have another benefit in that someone who is contemplating a violent action - be it against themselves or others. This break helps people have the critical time that can help people think through their potentially violent actions. I work in suicide prevention and this is one of the best ways to stop someone from acting out their suicide. Getting a person to stop, even for a short time, helps reduce the incidence of these deaths. The same is true of other types of violent actions.</div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Here in Oregon where I live, the law doesn't require guns to be stored safely, or even for people to register their guns with the state. There is no waiting period and no limit on how many guns can be purchased at one time. There is no law requiring the removal of firearms from people that are now prohibited from possessing them. While dv perpetrators are prohibited from owning guns, the state of Oregon does not require them to surrender the guns they already possessed before the incident. How is this an acceptable state of affairs? </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Oregon, like many states, needs to have better controls in place to reduce the number of gun deaths. California is often cited as a state whose gun controls are something to strive for and I agree. Waiting periods, restrictions on the number of weapons you are able to purchase at a time, licenses, prohibitions on assault weapons, 50 caliber rifles, and large capacity ammo magazines, are all just sensible. The fact is that these common sense regulations reduce gun violence, California is a perfect example of this. Study after study has shown that there is a strong correlation between stronger laws and fewer gun deaths per capita. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Massachusetts recently also added stronger gun laws by making it so semi-automatic rifles are banned. This new law also makes duplicates or copies of a semi-automatic weapon illegal and explicitly defined this as including any weapon that has interchangeable components with a banned weapon. They also call out the ar-15 and ak-47 in the law. They have now become the first state to ban these weapons and I would not be surprised if California soon follows suit. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">It’s time that we push for stronger laws nationally, and if that is slow in coming, on a state by state basis. At the very least we should not be allowing people to possess firearms whose sole purpose is to kill other humans quickly and efficiently. There were 7 shootings involving multiple people on July 4th, 2016 alone and as a result 7 people are dead and 30 are injured. As I write this yesterday saw 3 dead and 5 injured. It goes on and on. We can reduce the number of dead and injured, we can prevent the majority of these attacks. We just need to follow the lead of the rest of the world and have stricter, sensible, gun laws. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Edit: I added a few things and updated it to reflect the mass. Law change. </div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-12600669167563378552014-07-08T00:21:00.001-07:002014-07-08T00:21:17.043-07:00Nightbot, gamers and gendered slurs. <span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Note: this has been sitting around for a while and apparently never got published >.< since It's there I might as well share it with everyone. <3</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So I am a gamer and am involved in many different communities around gaming. One of these is online where we all play in the beta of an indie game (SpyParty), stream together, chat with each other and even are doing a table top RPG via stream and teamspeak. We use a service called NightBot so we can have music in our stream and also because the ability to add custom commands is funny and handy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">For example in one of the streams I moderate if you type in "!entertained" NightBot responds with "The stream is entertained! (for the xth time)" We use it as a source for explaining games, inside jokes and general hilarity depending on the stream. We also really heavily rely on the music abilities to create interesting playlists that are viewer created. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">That being said recently we tried to create a joke command that was "... YET." Innocuous right? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Apparently not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">When I went to use the command this is what I got in reply from nightbot: (Buananoche is my name on twitch)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Buananoche-> Do you REALLY think I'm going to allow YOU to execute commands on MY behalf? Fuck YOU bitch!</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: white;">Woah. Really NightBot? What is going on?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Because I had no idea why I got this response from my command I tweeted the guys at nightbot. Like you do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So I asked why me using ellipses led to that response and this is what the conversation looked like:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/buananoche" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheNightBot: @buananoche</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> if a chat line starts with a period it is interpreted by the server as a chat command</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: white;"> <span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" data-user-id="76838594" href="https://twitter.com/buananoche" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">@buananoche</a> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/theNightbot" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@theNightbot</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and so it calls the person a bitch? That seems extreme</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: white;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/buananoche" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheNightBot: @buananoche</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Because people normally try to do abusive things like make it change its /color or /ban folks</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: white;"> @buananoche: <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/theNightbot" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@theNightbot</a><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it's just rather rude and was an unwelcome surprise in my chat, I'm not a fan of being called a gendered slur. </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Multiple streams I mod use nightbot and it really turns all of us off of the service. Especially for me, being a female </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">gamer I get called that a lot-It's not welcome where I mod and in our community. Do you have any reason for that response (this was 3 tweets)</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: white;">Big surprise... that's where our conversation ended. My (male) buddy also tweeted them, he was less annoyed than I am. I don't exactly what he said but he did tell me their response:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">"Gamers in general aren't offended by such a statement, or at least I nor friends. The statement fits along with its timeout msgs."</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: white;"> Good to know that according to the people at NightBot I am not a gamer in general. And that they think that calling a random person a bitch fits with their other messages. I've used nightbot in various capacities for quite a while now and this is the first time I have EVER seen something like this. Snark? fine. Gendered slurs? Color me surprised.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Am I surprised by TheNightBot's response? Nope. I wish I was though. This kind of thing is so common for me in gaming communities that I just can't bring myself to be surprised when it does. That's why I love the SpyParty community - when I comment about something not being okay what happens? They apologize and actually try to fix it. I have been in the SpyParty community for over a year now, over and over things that are endemic in our society, and especially in gaming society, that I don't stand for the other gamers and the developer himself have made sure to change their unacceptable behavior. Ranging from fat jokes to gendered slurs and more they have taken what I said, maybe questioned the 'why isn't it okay' type things, but they changed the behavior. Even when they admitted to not understanding why it wasn't okay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Oh, well. Nightbot just responded to me:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your interpretation of the response is of your own accord. The response serves to defend the bot when people try to undermine it.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: white;">Oh thanks NightBot twitter person. I really appreciate being told that </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-71547440951789719862013-07-30T00:38:00.002-07:002013-07-30T00:39:37.351-07:00Twitter, report tweet button and trans phobiaSo twitter has finally caved in and is adding a report tweet function to android and the web (why this was rolled out on iPad first I have no idea). This is in response to Caroline Criado-Perez's hoard of harasser that sparked a <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/twitter-add-a-report-abuse-button-to-tweets?utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition" target="_blank">petition on Change.org</a> to ask twitter to ya know... Make it so people can report rape threats like the ones Criado-Perez was getting. I am not going to hold my breath about how long it will take for this function to be implemented but at least they have said they will.<br />
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So why am I posting? Apart from going yay Caroline for successfully campaigning to keep women on the British pound Ophelia Benson's blog posts over at FtB have made me ponder another issue with this. Well, the comments on <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2013/07/a-deafening-silence-from-twitter/" target="_blank">this </a>made me think. </div>
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Will this report button be used to promote anti-trans action? </div>
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The first comment from jade hawk:</div>
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"I agree that twitter needs an easier way to report threats of violence, but I agree with the many trans people and women of color on twitter who have points out that an "abuse" button will be used by e.g. TERFs to kick their critics off twitter, in effect becoming more marginalizing than empowering. Many of them already get silenced by abuse of the spam reporting button. Unlike YouTube, twitter is largely real-time, so having your tweets restored after a day or two, when its disappeared from everyone's feed, protects the abusers of the reporting system... And this... Is why the community of minority women on twitter has been reacting very negatively to many of the suggestions made by white cis feminists on how to make twitter safer: because they experience many of these actions as being thrown under the bus, since they're expressed in these wide-sweeping terms."</blockquote>
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"Thank you jade hawk, those are my concerns too, I know a number of trans women whose accounts would have been deleted for abuse because they stood up to trans-misogynists online.<br />
Too often the cure for abuse just makes it worse."</blockquote>
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"Who said they are more important?<br />
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I can't help but think that the concerns voiced are valid. Silencing via false reports of abuse is a common tactic against trans people and WoC. It's an issue that I've found is rarely discussed outside of these two groups and something that cis and white people don't recognize far too often. Abuse reporting mechanisms are often used to silence - especially when I report of abuse ends up with the post or comment being removed immediately until the reported abuse can be confirmed. This, as jade hawk says, is a way to remove that person from the conversation in a complete and immediate manner. It's a concern that needs to be addressed that I don't have a good answer to.</div>
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However, not implementing an abuse reporting system isn't the way to fix the problem. I signed the petition to ask twitter to put the button on the web and android platforms because I think that we also Ned a way to report people that are abusing others on twitter. I've gotten my fair share of harassment on the site and I know others have had it worse than I. Look at Criado-Perez's situation - receiving 50+ rape threats per day with no on site recourse. Look at the situation that happened with mabus, death threats and harassment over years. Both of these situations ended up with police involvement. We can see there is a real problem here. </div>
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Will a report abuse button deter such voracious attackers? No. But it will help with the smaller attacks and may help with a reporting paper trail for larger cases. Someone who is abusing others via social network shouldn't be allowed to continue and blocking or spam reporting doesn't cut it. Blocking just forces the abuser to target the victims friends and colleagues or for others to retweet or post their own vitriol and so long as the person isn't saying the same thing of and over spam reporting isn't exactly effective. Beside, it isn't spam - it's harassment. </div>
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What can we do for trans people and WoC though? A possibility that comes to mind is to have the reported tweet removed from the reporters feed but not the overall conversation, and prevent it from being retweeted until such time as the case has been reviewed. Ideally we would have a quick view system in place too - like under 24hr not days. This would make it so the person doing the reporting has some protection, the case would be reviewed and in the event of a false report to silence the conversation can still go on. Another addition might be to impose a mute on someone with multiple abuse reports, or to have a twitter restraining order in place while the report is being looked at. These still have issues but I am just brainstorming here. I wish I had better answers but abuse and harassment need to be able to be reported, it's important and trans people and WoC could also use it to report their abusers. Like any system set up on a social network though it can be abused and it's hard to have an effective, non-problematic system implemented. </div>
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Any thoughts on a way for abuse reporting that doesn't silence people who are being falsely reported while still protecting victims of harassment and threats? </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-56920373928877540762012-06-28T03:09:00.001-07:002013-07-29T03:09:24.321-07:00HiatusAs some of you know my health isn't so hot these last six months. I'm sorry for the long gaps between posts but I just don't have the spoons to keep up with my daily life let alone blogging. I will get back to it and hopefully my health will improve sooner rather than later but for now - I am going to have to continue my unplanned hiatus as yet another thing has failed on me that requires yet another specialist and even more medication. <br>
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Cheers and thanks for the patience<br>
Lee<br>
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Update aug 26:<br>
I've gotten a discogram and have essentially confirmed that I'll have to have a disc replacement. Well, likely at some point four of them but here in the states I can only get two at a time so I'll get two replaced then later the other two because they are all dead. I don't recommend a discogram, they suck horribly.<div><br></div><div>Update jul 30</div><div>I'm starting to feel better and while I'm far from 100% I am working regularly again and am getting out a bit. The deep depression I've been in is fading back away so I feel like I should be around again. I've been working through some posts for asexy on sex, and am working on ideas for queer transformations and a good night for science. I'll be trying to write a post during work for at least one of my blogs every day. I may resurrect on dread more to write about games. I am actually feeling excited to write for y'all so look for content soon!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-33086784357850233932012-06-14T15:33:00.002-07:002012-06-14T15:45:59.979-07:00Herpes good food/bad food response<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<strong style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 0.21in;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;">This is a response to <a href="http://secretsofaurora.tumblr.com/post/24115593812/good-food-bad-food-for-hsv">this tumblr post</a> as reblogged by <a href="http://fuckyeahsexeducation.tumblr.com/post/25085258190/good-food-bad-food-for-hsv">fuckyeahsexeducation</a>. It appears to be sourced from e-how. I have posted each section in the article, then my response below it. </span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">When a herpes outbreak occurs, you should do your best to avoid foods with a high arginine content. Arginine essentially provides the food necessary for the survival of the herpes virus. High-arginine foods include coffee, chocolate, nuts, oatmeal, raisins, seeds, whole wheat bread, brown rice, coconut and lentils. You should also avoid eating fruits with high citric acid content, such as oranges and grapefruits, during an outbreak. In general, you should avoid processed foods and artificial cola drinks.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 0.21in;"><span lang="en-GB">This is an area where it's a bit more complicated than you think. Dosage matters. Take over what you should or under and you run into problems. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 0.21in;"><span lang="en-GB">A study by Naito et. al. Found that Arginine suppresses the growth of HSV-1 but only up to 50-60 nM. They also found that it is time dependent and that it doesn't directly interfere with the recurrence of the virus. SO what does this mean? It means that you can have your mocha and not really worry about its effect on your herpes. Should you binge on them? No, but in moderation your coffee, brown rice, whole wheat bread and coconut shouldn't do you any harm. As for the claim about citric acid I couldn't find any studies on that – positive or negative. As far as I can tell this came from nowhere</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 0.21in;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Lysine, on the other hand, serves to combat herpes when an outbreak occurs and helps prevent outbreaks as well. Foods with high lysine content include cheese, chicken, eggs, fish, milk, potatoes, beef, brewer’s yeast, yogurt, sprouts, avocados, papaya, mango, apricots, apples, figs, beets and lamb.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.21in;">Lysine – according to Griffith et. al. Lysine does indeed seem to suppress the clinical manifestations of herpes virus infection. This means that it helps speed up recovery and helps suppress another outbreak. HOWEVER. These results were found with a daily dose of just over 1,000 mg. The lower dosage studied in McCune et. al. Study on the same therapy (around 600 mg per day) found no results. While consuming these foods might give you an increase in lysine intake – you're better off talking to your doctor about options for when you get an outbreak and how to prevent them. If your doctor agrees that a Lysine dosage might help – they can assist you in getting a safe, reliable dosage so that you don't need to gamble on the unknown dosages you might get from foods. Remember – the amount you take matters. A dose too small might not do anything and a dose too large could do some serious damage. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Broccoli, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts contain a compound known as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that may be effective in suppressing herpes. Green tea is also a good thing to work into your diet, as it contains antiviral and antioxidant properties. Most organic herbal green or white teas are good. Consume lots of sprouts as well, because sprouts contain powerful enzymes and vitamins, even more than the actual vegetables themselves. Try to consume fruits and vegetables in raw form rather than cooking them, as cooked vegetables usually have lower vitamin content. Drinking fresh vegetable and fruit juice can do wonders for the immune system and your overall health. There are also some good enzyme and vitamin supplements on the market that can help control herpes. Vitamin C, B5, B6, zinc, and magnesium are all good choices.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Here's the deal on this portion. Have a healthy diet and you don't need to worry about any of this. Yes, green tea is lovely but the research is mixed, we can't say that it will do any good to help with HSV-1 because we don't have results showing this. Based upon the scant evidence I have been able to find in reliable places I am inclined to lean toward this not helping anything save a very minor effect in oral herpes infections that are currently active. Of course there is a huge placebo effect there still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Consume lots of sprouts as well, because sprouts contain powerful enzymes and vitamins, even more than the actual vegetables themselves.” What does this even mean? How can something contain more “powerful enzymes and vitamins” than the actual vegetable? I don't get it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As for the cooking vegetables claim to somehow reduce the vitamin and mineral content in vegetables the evidence is mixed. The method of cooking, the type of vegetable etc. all make a difference. According to Masrizal et. al. Microwaving or steaming most vegetables retains most of the vitamin C, iron, and beta-carotene content. Other studies, one such conducted by Leichter et. al. Shows that what reduction there is in boiled vegetables is usually merely leached into the water it's boiled in. My conclusion from this? If you want to keep your cauliflower nutrients make a stew or soup out of it and poof, you still have them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">There are also some good enzyme and vitamin supplements on the market that can help control herpes. Vitamin C, B5, B6, zinc, and magnesium are all good choices.” Or, take your valtrex, and talk to your doctor. If, and only if, you have a vitamin deficiency do you need supplementation and your doctor can help you with that. Otherwise you will merely have at best expensive pee and at worse too much of the vitamin's which can be harmful. Eat a healthy diet, get a bit of sunlight and drink water – the vast majority of people don't need supplements and if anyone other than your doctor (mind you that's a real doctor not a naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist or other such bunk) tells you to take a supplement because you're somehow needing supplementing get a second opinion from your doctor. For some more information about supplements check out the amazing work done by the Science Based Medicine people – </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><a href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/vitamin-b12-the-energy-panacea/"> Here, </a> <a href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/antioxidants-and-exercise-more-harm-than-good/">Here</a> and <a href="http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/alpha-brain-whats-wrong-with-the-supplement-industry/">Here</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As far as the whole “Drinking fresh vegetable and fruit juice can do wonders for the immune system and your overall health.” thing – yeah, fresh vegetable and fruit juice is a great way to get your daily intake of fruits and vegetables but what do they mean 'do wonders for the immune system'? What part of the immune system? How does it help? Does drinking your fruits and vegetables make any difference when compared to eating them? Yes we do need them to help keep up our health but it doesn't do anything different than consuming those particular edibles would anyway. You need the nutrients and your stomach isn't particularly picky about how it gets them. The immune system is <i>complicated</i> and saying things like it 'can do wonders for the immune system' is an immediate red flag for something not to take particularly seriously. Especially without a decent citation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I took a look at the citations e-how provided (which don't show up on the tumblr story) and they were sketchy to say the least. Is it surprising that “global herbal supplies” is recommending supplements? Or that the naturopath over at herpes coldsores has a whole host of diet changes with no supporting evidence to recommend? Or that a site flogging books and herbs is recommending something similar with a similar level of evidence? I'll stick with the literature. I personally get oral cold sores and have my whole life, I do indeed practice what I preach and go to the doctor (again – a real one, a MD) when I have an outbreak. She gives me Valtrex – my outbreak goes away in a day or two. It's a virus, we have it for life and pseudoscience trying to persuade us to change our quality of life on the abstract hope that we can somehow prevent an outbreak is ridiculous. Go with the evidence, talk to your doctor and work with them to manage your progress. If you think you are deficient in a vitamin – again, talk to your doctor. There are simple tests that can be done to see and if you are a proper, safe supplement can be prescribed. Thanks to the lack of regulation in the supplement industry on the shelf pills may not actually contain what they are claiming. Some have been seen to have more or less of the dosage, some have other contaminates in them, some herbal supplements have even been found to have high levels of heavy metals. You can take your chances – I'll stick to something that is regulated and has been tested. Overall it comes down to your choice – do you go with something that isn't proven, has clear biases in the recommendations, and isn't regulated well or tested, regulated medicine given by a properly trained MD?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Have evidence I missed? Let me know. I would love to be wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Leichter et. Al - </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1981/US/US81054.xml;US7940855">http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/display.do?f=1981/US/US81054.xml;US7940855</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: large;">Masrizal et. Al - <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-4557.1997.tb00483.x/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-4557.1997.tb00483.x/abstract</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Griffity et. al. A multicentered study of lysine terapy in Herpes simplex infection. Dermatologica. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB">1978;156(5):257-67.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.21in;">McCune et. al. Treatment of recurrent herpes simplex infections with L-lysine monohydrochloride. Cutis. 1984 Oct; 34(4):366-73.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 0.21in;">Naito et. al. Antiviral effect of arginine against herpes simplex virus type 1. Int. J Mol Med. 2009 Apr;23(4):495-9.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-55698060486832476252012-04-08T23:46:00.002-07:002012-06-14T15:42:30.222-07:00A few definitions<div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">I
had someone call me on the fact that some of the words I use aren't
always in common usage so I thought I would start a definitions list.
Given how busy this last weekend has been and my upcoming surgery
this seemed right up my alley for something I could do during the 6
hours or so of riding in a car I had over the last weekend. If you
see any errors in this list or have things you think should be added,
let me know! I am always up for corrections and comments. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Asexual </b>-
a person who doesn't feel sexual attraction towards other people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Agendered </b>-
a person who feels they have no gender</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>ASAB </b>-
assigned sex at birth - afab or amab for female/male</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Appropriation </b>-
taking something from another persons identity that isn't a part of
yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Body
map </b>- a persons internal map of what their body should look
like. A person generally experiences some level of dysphoria if this
doesn't match their body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>BDSM </b>-
bondage, discipline, dominance/submission, sadomasochism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Busted
language </b>- language that is oppressive to another group of
people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Cis </b>-
an overarching term for people whose asab and gender identity match</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Cis
sexual </b>- a person whose body map matches their body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Cis
gendered </b>- a person whose asab matches their gender identity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>CASAB </b>-
coercively assigned sex at birth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Demisexual </b>-
a person who is sexually attracted to people only after getting to
know them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Dysphoria </b>-
the feeling that something isn't right with your body, either
something is there and shouldn't be or something is missing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Erasure </b>-
the systematic failure to have things a person can identify with in
the culture, e.g. Not having trans* people represented in
schools</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Fetish</b>/<b>paraphilia </b>-
something that is typically non sexual that arouses a person or is
required for sexual gratification</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Grey</b>-<b>asexual
</b>- a person who isn't sexually attracted to people the
majority of time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Gender
fluid </b>- a person who feels their gender is variable and
doesn't fit in the binary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Gender
queer </b>- a person who feels their gender doesn't fit in the
binary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Gender
fuck </b>- a person who intentionally expresses their gender to
play with people's preconceptions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Heterosexual </b>-
a person who is sexually attracted to what is considered the opposite
sex</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Homosexual </b>-
a person who is sexually attracted to the same sex</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Intersex </b>-
a person who, at birth, the doctors determined their genitalia was
"ambiguous." typically doctors would "correct"
the ambiguation, thankfully this is being done less and less. Often
this leads to ASAB becoming CASAB.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Misgendering </b>-
not using the correct gender signifiers for a person</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Neutrois </b>-
a person who is agendered and experiences dysphoria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Passing </b>-
trying to appear as another gender than your asab, e.g. Afab Trying
to pass as a male</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Queer </b>-
a person who feels that modern societal norms don't fit them for
their gender, sexuality or expression thereof. Also a political
ideology</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Sapiosexual </b>-
a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Sadomasochism </b>-
a person who enjoys giving (sadism) and receiving (masochism) pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Trans*</b> -
the overarching term for a person whose asab doesn't match their
gender identity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Trans
sexual </b>- a person who is trans* and has or intends to have
gender alignment surgery or hormones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Trans
gender </b>- a person who is trans* and does not intend to have
gender alignment surgery or hormones at this time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Tokenizing </b>-
having one person represent a whole group</span></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-1346761473196912862012-04-04T03:18:00.001-07:002012-06-14T15:43:03.558-07:00On Passing<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.22in;">Why
do so many trans sites and trans people seem so concerned with
“passing?” I don't get it and yet I fall prey to it as well.
Sometimes the overarching concern is to be attributed as cis but
sometimes the effort seems to be in deliberately being either
misgendered or confusing. I know the second part if a choice (though
in my gender classes I have felt pressure to 'show' my gender
fluidity, which is ridiculous) but it's the first one, the pressure
to be attributed as cisgender that really gets me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">I
understand wanting to appear cis for safety reasons. There is a huge
privilege you gain by being perceived as a part of the typical cis
binary. This helps smooth the way in so many ways that cis people
likely don't realize. Just not having the thread of being harmed,
verbally or physically, by appearing cis (or at least lessening that
threat) is likely worth it for many trans and non-binary people.
There isn't anything wrong with choosing to accept a certain level of
misgendering and dysphoria for safety reasons. That being said, it is
an individuals choice to make and one which shouldn't be a decision
which others try to influence. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately
the pressure to 'pass' is something that a lot of people, trans and
cis both, put on trans people who aren't passing or who don't 'fir' a
mold for their identity. For example, currently the 'in' thing for
gender queer people is a kind of hardcore androgyny. Those who don't
fit that are questioned to see if they are “real” gender queers
or if they are faking it. Unfuck that, a person's gender expression
doesn't necessarily equate to their gender identity for one and for
two holy no true Scotsman fallacy badman. They aren't “real”
gender queers if they don't “fit” a preset idea of what a gender
queer person “should” be. That's bullshit flat out. The range of
“acceptable” presentation for cis males and especially cis
females is massive. Why do those who aren't cis and who aren't binary
have such a narrow range of acceptance? </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">Just
look at the difference between a cis female and a trans female. The
cis person can range in gender expression from a super femininity to
the most hardcore butch and they are still accepted as female. Their
femininity, may be questioned, their orientation may be questioned,
but almost never their gender. Now for the trans person, unless their
gender expression is what is typically considered feminine or they
pass well and no one knows their trans history their gender is
regularly questioned and is often rejected, </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>even
by other trans people</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">.
Hell, likely </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>especially</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">
by other trans people. I have heard more trans people accuse those of
us who aren't trying to pass of “making trans people look bad.”
No we aren't, those who insist on being in a box of trans expressions
with no deviations are. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">This
behavior is ridiculous, those who are trans have every gender
expression represented just as cis people do but this policing of
what is a “true” trans or gender queer or neutrois expression is
just horizontal oppression and merely perpetuates the idea that if
you don't “fit” you are </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>other.
</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">As
a whole trans* people are already showing that cis ideals aren't
working, non-binary people are showing that binarist ideals aren't
working. Rather than accepting that peoples expression needs to “fit”
to their gender identity we need to allow for people to express
themselves and their gender how they feel is right </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>for
them</b></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">
not for some ideal of gender. The cis privilege of gender expression
needs to be taken up by trans* people. No matter your gender identity
cis male or trans gender queer you should not be condemned for your
choice of expression of that gender. We need to move away form this
oppressive dialogue of passing and allow people to freely express who
they are. </span>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-28728365808964175722012-04-01T01:56:00.000-07:002012-06-14T15:43:22.626-07:00A bit about reclaiming words<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
only thing that gives me pause about reclaiming words that I, in my
target group identities have had used against me is the fear that the
privileged people who hear my reclaimed words will think to
themselves “Well they use that word why can't I?”. Words have
contexts, histories and meanings and we need to be careful of that.
We need to realize that when people are reclaiming that it can be a
perilous time for them because the <i>words
still hurt</i>
and the words are hard to use and the words remind us every damn time
we use them that <i>we
are oppressed.</i>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It
is worth it though. It is worth taking back the power and the hurt
and the glory and the pain to fully live. To not let a word with
history and power over us hurt us anymore. It is not something that
can be done for another person though. They have to do it themselves.
A person has to find their words that they want to empower themselves
with and if those words need to be reclaimed from their oppressors,
more power to them.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It
is their choice though. What words, what sounds, what sights, smells
and feelings they want to reclaim. What they have the ability to
handle right now to reclaim. That needs to be respected. For me,
personally, I love the word 'cunt' for <em><i>my
reproductive organs</i></em> because
it's something that has been used to demean me in the past. HOWEVER I
know that a lot of people, especially a lot of people with vaginas or
who other perceive as having vaginas really really don't like that
word. So I don't use it a lot and if I know someone has a problem
with it then I will do my best not to squick them in their space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On
my pages, in my blog, and in my head however it is <strong><b>mine</b></strong> and
because of that I am empowered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If
that is how a person is reclaiming then <em><i>awesome.</i></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">If
that is how a person is using it then </span></em><em><i>awesome.</i></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">If
that is how a person is being empowered by it then </span></em><em><i>awesome.</i></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
have however seen supposed reclaiming that is harmful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I
have seen people 'reclaim' words used against them and then turn
around and horizontally oppress other people in their own target
group, with their own identity, with the very word they say they are
reclaiming. If the word is still being used to harm, to hold someone
down, to trigger bad memories, to attack, then it is not being
reclaimed it is being propagated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reclamation
is not about stealing power from others it is about empowering
ourselves so that the words with their whole history of harm and
abuse of our own people aren't hurting. When we used these words to
harm people who have had them used as weapons by oppressors already
we are setting that process back.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><i>That</i></em> is
the difference to me.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-62672434571909833142012-03-31T22:25:00.004-07:002012-06-14T15:44:08.083-07:00California's Universities may be asking about Sexual Orientation<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 0.22in;">In the news recently was the possibility of the
California public university system adding to their demographics
collection for applicants questions about their sexual orientation. I
have mixed feelings about this depending on the question. For
example, one of the news reports mentions a private school in
Illinois that has “</span><span style="line-height: 0.22in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">3%
reporting to be homosexual, bisexual or transgender.” One thing
that I have never understood is why 'transgender' is on a list of
sexual orientations. It's not a sexual orientation, it's a gender
history. A person can be a homosexual trans woman, or a bisexual
trans man, or even something not even mentioned like a pansexual
trans gender queer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">This
gets into part of the problem I can see happening. According to the
same news source the new law that asks universities to allow students
and staff to be able to “identify their sexual orientation, gender
identity and gender expression” This would be really cool and
validating if it was done right but from what I can tell so far the
question is mainly going to be about sexual orientation, and the only
orientations I have seen listed yet are heterosexual, homosexual,
bisexual and questioning. This is really invalidating to the students
who don't identify with this limited list of orientations. If it was
a fill in the blank, or even had the option of 'other' it would be a
little better. Even though 'other' is still rendering a person into
that status and is dehumanizing at least then their voices could
possibly be heard but as is it isn't looking likely. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Another
disheartening part of the stories is the discussion of the UC
Undergrad Experience Survey which listed gay/lesbian or
self-identified queer together and bisexual and questioning as
separate categories. My first response was 'wait what?' This is
completely ridiculous and tells me that whoever designed the survey
questions has no idea what the different orientations are. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Elmhurst
College was also reported but they seemed to do things a little
better by asking “would you consider yourself to be a member of the
LGBT community?” See, while that isn't perfect it is at least a bit
better. There they are asking what they want to know – are you part
of the community we are interested in serving. It feels like they
aren't doing lip service to wanting to actually know about the sexual
orientations of the people on campus but actually asking the question
of if you would use the services provided for LGBT people. This
doesn't have as much pretense as questions on your actual
orientation. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">More
services for QUILTBAG students is great and a worthy goal so I am
glad that the uni's are trying to do something to help ensure that
these students are getting the services they need but it needs to be
done right. At the moment, I have little faith that the schools will
be putting questions on their admittance forms that validate
non-binary students, especially given that most still have 'sex:
male/female' on there. Maybe this is a step in the right direction
but it seems to me like another way to keep rendering those who
aren't binary in gender and orientation, or those who aren't sexual,
invisible. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large;">All
of the quotes in this are from LA Times, the article can be found
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-uc-gay-20120330,0,303195.story">here</a>. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-30669760301335261782012-03-30T17:33:00.000-07:002012-06-14T15:44:16.598-07:00Orientation – just when you thought it made sense.<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 0.22in;">When most people think of orientation they
think of sexual orientation but the reality is that it is more
complicated than that. Who people are attracted to sexually is only
one aspect of orientation there is also who people are attracted to
romantically as well as what other people attribute your orientations
to be. These different aspects line up in most people, though the
attribution can be different for some who aren't heterosexual or
obviously homosexual but for those who aren't of a 'mainstream'
orientation or whose sexual and romantic orientation this aspect of
who they are can be rendered invisible.</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sexual orientation can be divided into a number
of categories, not all of which many people have heard of. The
categories are hetero, homo, bi, pan, omni, a, demi, and sapio.
Heterosexual people are those who are sexually attracted to people of
the opposite sex (whatever that means, usually this is used for
people in a binary-identification of sex or gender). This is also
called androphilia when people don't want to attach a gender to the
people involved. Homosexual people are those who are attracted to
people of the same sex, this has the same binary implications as
heterosexuality does. This is also called gynephilia for similar
reasons to androphilia. Bisexuality is the last binary identification
and is sexual attraction to 'both' genders.
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</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Pansexual and omnisexual are sexual attraction
to all genders and attraction that isn't based off gender
respectively. These two orientations are often put together into the
same category. Asexual people aren't sexually attracted to other
people and demisexual people require a relationship before sexual
attraction occurs. Sapiosexual people are attracted to intelligence
without regards for gender or sex. Romantic attraction has the same
categories as sexual attraction but deals with who a person is
attracted to have a romantic relationship with.
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Orientation attribution is what other people
assume your sexual and romantic attribution. Usually people assume
that these two attributes match but that isn't always the case.
Unless yours happen to not match however there is a distinct
possibility that you have never realized that they are two different
orientations. People who are assumed to be heterosexual/romantic are
given cis privilege even if they aren't hetero, even the assumption
of homosexuality and bisexuality give a person cis privilege that the
other orientations don't get. Far too often a person who is of a
non-binary orientation is rendered invisible, even in human sexuality
classes where the professor should know better.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">One thing that happens far too often,
especially in homosexual communities is the assumption that
orientation must be stable. A person changing their orientation is
seen as a traitor to the community and even if that doesn't occur in
many cases they aren't welcomed back into the community to the extent
that they were previously. The reality however is that all
orientations have some degree of fluidity. While many people have
relatively stable orientations, like with gender, orientation can
have a small, moderate or high level of fluidity. These fluctuations
may just be for one person, or just every so often but in others
there is a significantly greater level of fluctuation. Maybe the
person identifies as homoflexible – a designation that says that
the person is mainly homosexual but isn't entirely objecting to the
possibility of an attraction to a person of another gender.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">There is a lot of research into sexual
orientation already, though most of it is on hetero, homo, and bi
sexual people. Research is minimal on asexuals, and nearly
non-existent for the other orientations. I think the best way to do
this research would be to do a survey of people to find their sexual
and romantic orientations both via self report and adaptations of
scales previously used to detect sexual orientation. A lot of these
scales can easily be adapted for use on looking at romantic
orientation as well.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Looking into orientation attribution would be
done in the same way as the other attributions; asking a group of
people to identify peoples orientation based off of a profile of the
person. In this case a written case report of various people from a
variety of sexual and romantic orientations and having the people
involved write down what they think the case studies orientations
are. Another way to do this would be to have a staged video of a
dance or party then have the participants watch and determine what
the people at the event have for orientation.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As with the other categories that deal with
fluidity sexual and romantic orientation fluidity can be measured
retrospectively via a survey asking people how their orientations
have changed over time. This can then branch out into a more in-depth
set of research where people journal their orientation perhaps on a
monthly basis over the course of time to see if it changes. The
longitudinal study would have to take place over a number of years so
that there would be a complete picture of peoples fluidity. This
would be the most difficult to develop a measure to test because
orientation fluidity isn't socially acceptable in may areas and many
people have a goal of finding one person to settle down with and thus
don't do a lot of changing of orientation after that.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As for practical uses of this I think that the
best place this information can be used would be in couples therapy
to establish a background on the clients. I am not sure that this
orientation information alone would have much practical use beyond
that but used in suite with the other areas of sexuality and gender
this can give a clinician working with a person a lot of information
to go on when they are assessing someone for gender or sexuality
related problems. Establishing a clear baseline that doesn't deny the
person's identity is vital so that a good therapeutic outcome can be
reached.
</span></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-84788596602777514732012-03-29T22:47:00.000-07:002012-06-14T15:44:25.268-07:00The Maze of Gender<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender is confusing. When I first started
questioning my gender this is something that I said regularly and
frankly, that hasn't changed much in the last year or so. Growing up
it's always boy or girl, no in between, this idea is reinforced in
school until as adults we are so used to a binary that is difficult
for most people to change. Unless you are one of those kids who never
really felt like they sat right in their gender. That little kid who
did all of the 'boy things' and who didn't like the 'girl stuff' and
didn't get why other kids wanted to do silly things rather than run
around outside and climb trees. Thankfully University came along and
I got one more opportunity to question again. Now here I am
supposedly an adult and I get to do all of the gender exploration
that I never got to do as a child.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">My reading and researching has led me to divide
gender into five categories; gender identity, gender expression,
gender attribution, gender identity fluidity and gender expression
fluidity. These five categories tell us what gender a person is, how
often that changes as well as how that is presented to the world. As
with Sex, these aren't necessarily stable quantities - a persons
identity can change over time and their expression surely does. From
what I have seen in my reading so far this is especially true for
afab people because society is more accepting of their gender
exploration than people who are amab. Now for a little more detail on
each of the categories, what research needs to be done on the
different hypothesis involved and then what can be done with the
information.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender identity is one of the characteristics
that people are likely most familiar with because this is where trans
gender people become known. The category is a little more complicated
that just cis vs trans though because we have two classifications to
start with, binary and non-binary then we break those down even
further. On the binary side we have cis male and cis female as well
as trans male and trans female. On the non-binary side things are
more complicated. We have neutrois, gender fluid, gender queer,
gender neutral, agender, and I am sure there are more that I don't
know of yet. Each of these non-binary classifications can have a
trans history as well, though that is up to the person to identify.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender expression gets even more complicated
with gender fucks and gender queers intentionally playing with
peoples attributions. There are what are considered 'masculine' and
'feminine' expressions and dyke, boi, femme, androgynous, and all of
the different combinations and classifications that can appear. For
the sake of my brain I have just those I have listed here as well as
an 'other' category but that may change as the research finds what
people feel their expression best falls into.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender attribution is what other people think
is your gender identity (and often your asab) just from your gender
expression. This is most commonly male, female or trans but depending
on the person doing the attribution the range of options can be just
as broad as the range of potential identities. As with any
attribution, those who are active in the gender world likely will ask
a persons gender identity and their pronouns before this attribution
is fully made.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender identity and expression fluidity can
both very drastically for people, especially gender expression. The
difference here though is if people attribute you to be a female then
more fluidity in gender expression is accepted vs the tighter levels
of acceptable gender expression exploration that society finds
acceptable in males. The variation can be from essentially stable or
small amounts of fluidity to semi-regular, or moderate fluidity and
finally to high fluidity where your identity or expression changes
quite a bit. These are two different categories but both have a big
impact on a person both in how others perceive them to if they get
cis privilege or not.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">There have been a number of studies already
into gender identity but, as is common in many programmes, non-binary
identities have largely been ignored. I would like to try to
replicate some of the research that has been done on gender identity
while taking into account that there are non-binary people out there.
I would also like to see about modifying some of the existing
questionnaires to be more inclusive of non-binary people and to be
able to accurately measure the gender identity of a person, rather
than just leaving things in the binary.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">For gender expression the best way to get this
information would be a survey of people with a variety of different
gender identities asking them what kinds of expression they do to
show the world their gender. This can range from clothing and jewelry
to body language and even methods of speaking. Clinical interviews
would also be useful for this because then more information can be
gathered on points that need clarification.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">For gender attribution, the best way to do this
would be to have a variety of people from a variety of backgrounds
look at people of a variety of gender identities and expressions and
have them label each with what they think the persons gender identity
is. This would not only give the different kinds of labels people
give but the frequency of the labels as per different identities and
expressions.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Gender identity fluidity and gender expression
fluidity can both be done in similar ways to the body map fluidity
research I outlined last post. This would be a preliminary
retrospective survey on the persons gender identity and expression
and how the changes over time and a follow up longitudinal study
having people journal their identity and expression over time. This
combination would give both how people perceive themselves changing
over time as well as the reality of what is occurring.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The practical aspect of this is that it can
help a person who is struggling with their identity to clearly see
what is going on, or for their therapist to get a better idea of what
they are presenting. Especially if measures can be made or adapted to
be used to determine this information. Examples of the use of this is
to help people who are trans and want to either have surgery or go on
hormones. A clinical interview to get the needed information on sex
and gender in this system would tell someone that the person is trans
and if they want to do hormones or surgery it can inform the process
from there while validating the persons gender. The current system is
invalidating for people with non-binary genders and even may binary
trans people find the system to be deeply problematic. While this
wouldn't entirely renovate the system a therapist using this base to
evaluate the persons need for alignment processes while removing the
invalidation of either the therapist denying your gender identity or
having to lie about it, thus rendering your actual identity
invisible. </span>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-48152591620027902232012-03-28T22:57:00.001-07:002012-06-14T15:44:36.016-07:00Let's talk about Sex<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 0.22in;">Don't get your hopes up, I am not meaning
intercourse. Lets talk about bodies and what our brains tell us our
bodies should be. The hypothesis I am working on when it comes to sex
has it broken down into a couple of different areas as I outlined in
my last post. These are (C)ASAB, Sex Identity, Sex Attribution and
Body Map Fluidity. I am not entirely sure that this is what will end
up as sticking in this category but it's a place to start. I'll go
into more detail on each of the categories then go into ideas on how
to do the research for this and potentially how it can be used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">(C)ASAB stands for (Coercively) assigned sex at
birth. This can be assigned female at birth (AFAB), assigned male at
birth (AMAB) or assigned intersex at birth which is then typically
coercively assigned female or male following that designation. A lot
of people in the non-binary and trans* communities are not only
unhappy that they were assigned a gender at birth but that people
seem to reduce us to our CASAB rather than listen to us when we give
our gender. This is the only construct that is entirely stable for
everyone, as each person has been assigned a sex at birth.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Sex Identity is if your internal body map
matches your body, as well as if you plan on altering your body to
better match your body map. This can be broken down into three
categories. Cis sexual is where your body map and your body match.
Trans sexual is where your body map and your body don't match and you
have, or plan to have surgery or take hormones to align your body and
map. Trans* sexual is where your body map and body don't match and
you don't have plans to align your body either because you don't feel
the need or can't do so. This body map and body match doesn't
entirely have to do with sexual characteristics, it can also be other
major aspects of your body. For example, a person who is a furry may
have a body map that has a tail and since their body doesn't they may
be considered trans* sexual.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Sex Attribution is what other people attribute
your sex identity (usually assumed to be your asab) to be. This
varies depending on the social context, but the majority of people
will assume someone to be their asab or what they think is your asab.
In other social contexts this might not be as likely but most people
don't know what a trans* background might entail.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Body Map Fluidity is the final category under
sex and is the amount that a persons internal body map fluctuates
over time. Some people will have very stable body maps, where their
idea of what their body should look like doesn't change much over
time. People whose body map changes every so often will have a small
amount of body map fluidity, people whose body map changes a decent
skamount, enough to be noticeable on a regular basis would have a
moderate amount of body map fluidity. The final group that has a high
body map fluidity would have their map change quite often and
regularly feel that change.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">There isn't a lot of research to be done into
ASAB as it is an assignation rather than something which will change
over time. My research into sex identity will need to be in the form
of surveys and interviews where I ask people about their body map,
their body, and what they identify with for their sex (cis, trans,
trans* etc.). This would need to be done with a sample of people who
are cis as well as people who aren't. Sex attribution would need for
me to have a group of people determine what someone's sex identity is
based off of sight. This would need to be done with a number of
people from a variety of backgrounds who would be viewing people who
have cis, trans and trans* backgrounds. Body map fluidity could go in
a number of ways. This could be done retrospectively by asking people
about how often their body map changes or by having people regularly
journal on their body map and any changes in it over a long period of
time. The second one may need to be done after a retrospective survey
is done so that there is a better idea of how often peoples body maps
change.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">What can be done with this information? To be
honest I am not sure, if this system is found to be true with
research then measures may be able to be developed which can help a
therapist get a better picture of what a client is going
experiencing. This also helps legitimize a person's body dysphoria by
acknowledging it and respecting its legitimacy. This information
would likely be most useful as a part of a complete picture of a
persons gender and sex rather then standing on its own. </span>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-25640963697445322512012-03-28T04:16:00.001-07:002012-06-14T15:44:47.017-07:00A Research Project in the Making<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My current project involves an in depth look at
gender, sex, sexuality, and orientation. I am working on a hypothesis
of how these are actually divided up, what is fluid, how fluid the
different aspects are and the potential rates for each different
'classification.' As many who look into gender in any depth know,
it's complicated. So is a persons sex, sexuality and orientation. I
am going to go through my current basic breakdowns in the hopes of
getting some feedback on what others think of it. Parts of this will
likely make up the subject matter for my masters thesis as well as my
PhD dissertation.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">So here are the basic breakdowns:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sex </b>– (C)ASAB, Sex Identity, Sex Attribution,
Body Map Fluidity</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gender </b>– Gender Identity, Gender Expression,
Gender Attribution, Gender Identity Fluidity, Gender Expression
Fluidity</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Orientation </b>– Sexual Orientation, Romantic
Orientation, Orientation Attribution, Sexual Orientation Fluidity,
Romantic Orientation Fluidity</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sexuality </b>– Libido, Exploration, Expression,
Identification, Identification Fluidity, Libido Fluidity
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Each of the second categories have the various
classifications; e.g. ASAB → AFAB/AMAB. The ones I still need to
work on are in the Sexuality category as that is the area I have done
the least formal thought on for this kind of project. I really feel
that doing this kind of mapping can help someone realize that they
are complicated, fluid and that it is okay. While most people seem to
assume that their ASAB = Sex Identity = Gender Identity = Gender
Expression and that Sexual and Romantic Orientations are the same.
While part of the research I want to do on this includes asking
people these kinds of questions to find out if my hypothesis (that
people assume SO and RO are the same etc) is correct I also want to
use the fleshed out (and fully researched) version of this as a
potential prop for therapists working with gender or sexuality
“atypical” people to really look into themselves and to be able
to clearly share this kind of information with their family or
friends who they are having difficulties discussing these topics
with.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">While therapy isn't my area of interest I want
my research to have practical applications for people and I hope that
this is the start of something that can really help people who are
struggling with identity issues. It can also help people who just
need to understand what someone is talking about. By putting together
a clear reference point a person can say oh on this categorization
scale my Sexual Orientation is Homo and my Romantic Orientation is
Hetero, both however are highly fluid. This tells a clinician
something specific and useful about doing relationship therapy with
the person. E.g. that the person is homosexual and heteroromantic
but that they aren't stable things and may change depending on the
other people involved or even just randomly. However if the romantic
orientation was stable then the clinician knows that the person may
be having problems in their homoromantic relationship because the
client isn't homoromantic and that isn't likely to change over time
either.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This gives me the idea of working on developing
a set of measures to help determine a persons categories. (I really
need a better word for it but right now, that's all I have. Ideas
would be useful.) For example doing a 'fill in the blank' where the
person puts down what they think of themselves as for each scale then
have a series of questions that can help determine the answers as
well. A clinical interview would also be useful to help make sure
that there is a complete picture of the client. This is straying out
of my field of expertise though so I will end the pondering there.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Long story short; I am working on teasing out
the complicated areas of sex and gender as well as how they interact
with others. I will be going into more detail on each of the
different categories over the next week or two and will continue to
do updates on this as the idea and the research gets more fleshed
out.
</span></div>
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05121354517500947246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027406746968717705.post-89651323519517558692012-03-26T23:25:00.003-07:002012-06-14T15:44:59.954-07:00What internalized and insidious oppression can look like<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 0.22in;">My recent conversations around the web have led me to realize that not everyone knows what some of the less
overt kinds of oppression looks like. It's hard to tell sometimes
when something is oppression when it isn't in your face. I am working
on putting together a list of various ways people are oppressive to
themselves and others, often without even realizing it is happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll start by going through the different
'-ism's and then go through some of the tactics used to shut down
even the discussion of the '-ism' in question. After all, we can
never change the system if we never talk about it.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>(Some of these are pretty overt examples – I
would really appreciate it if people think of more insidious or
internalized examples that they either share them here or message me
them so I can have better examples of less overt methods. Also, if
you think something in my definition is busted or if you can think of
a clearer or more succinct definition please share it. Thanks! -Lee) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Oppressions</span></h2>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Of course you can afford that, all you
need to do is cut out one coffee or pack of smokes a week” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Classism is oppression based upon a
persons assumed wealth or overall monetary value. This example
assumes that the person can even afford to get coffee, or smokes and
doesn't take into account the fact that many people can't even afford
one pack of smokes a month because they don't have the extra money.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sexism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>(said by a cisfemale to a cisfemale) “Girl, if you wear that
you will never get ahead, you have to be sexy.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sexism is discrimination against someone
because of their presumed sex or gender. In the example this is
horizontal oppression of another female with the assumption that you
have to dress to appeal others in order to 'get ahead.' This implies
that your body is valued over your brain.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Racism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> “So where are your people from”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Racism is oppression due to a persons
race, real or presumed. In this case the question assumes the person
is from somewhere else because they don't look like what the person
asking thinks they should to be a local.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cissexism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“But you were born with a penis, that makes
you a boy”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cissexism is when people assume that your
genitals and gender identity “match.” This not only reduces a
person to their genitalia but denies their gender identity,
especially if they don't plan on aligning their body physically with
what society expects it to look like for their identity (if society
even accepts their identity otherwise it reduces it to an assumed
binary identity).</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Transphobia</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> “So... You were born a girl, cut off your
tits and pretend you don't have a gender?” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Transphobia is oppression against people
who are not cis*. This can be against transsexual people and
transgender people both. The example is a case where someone is
assuming that a trans* person is pretending (and thus being trans*
isn't a valid identity) and is reducing them to their CASAB.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Binarism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> “So... are you a boy or a girl?” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Binarism is the assumption that a person
fits into the gender binary. This fails to take into account all of
the people who are non-binary in gender identify.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sizeism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> “I feel really fat and it makes me look not
sexy.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sizeism occurs when people are
discriminated against due to their size, usually due to being larger
than the socially accepted ideal though it can occurs for “too
skinny” too. In the example it is internalized sizeism where the
person equates being “fat” with “not sexy.”
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ageism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Grandpa, you wouldn't understand the new
computer. It's after your time.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ageism is discrimination based upon older
people. This can be youth's onto adults, or adults onto other, older
(or perceived as older) adults. In this case the person assumes that
someone who is “older” can't understand a new technology.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adultism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i> “You'll get it when You're older.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adultism occurs when adults discriminate
against youth. This example is a patronizing display of adultism that
assumes a young person couldn't possibly understand the situation.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Religious Oppression <span style="font-weight: normal;">(ever wonder why this
one doesn't have an '-ism'?)</span></span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“So what church do you go to?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Religious Oppression occurs when people
discriminate based upon religion. This also occurs in the general assumption that people are christian (sometimes this is even more
specifically protestant). In this example the person fails to
consider the person might be jewish, hindi, shinto, atheist, muslim
or any other of a number of non-church based religions. (oh, and I
don't know why either, if someone has an idea please share – I am
curious.)</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Heterosexism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Oh so where is your girlfriend?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Heterosexism happens when people
automatically assume heterosexuality in another person. This is an
example of someone assuming a male attributed person must then have a
girlfriend.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cisgenderism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“So... if you're a guy why are you in a
dress?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cisgenderism happens when people assume
that everyone's gender identity and/or gender expression agrees with
what society thinks it should be. This is an example of people
forcing you to conform to societies expectations of how you should
present your gender.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Colorism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A person uses skin bleach to lighten their
skin tone. </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Colorism happens when people are treated
differently because of the amount of visible melatonin in their skin.
This is an internalized example where the person feels the need to
lighten their skin because of the social stigma they face for having
a darker skin tone.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lookism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Wow, look at that, she's got one eye
bigger than the other. She must hate herself.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lookism happens when people who fit the
social ideal are treated better than others. This is related to
sizeism, transphobia and more but is also distinct. The assumption
that 'she' must hate herself is assuming that having traits that
aren't socially ideal is bad.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nativism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“We need to make sure that American's get
jobs, it's ridiculous how those immigrants are getting all of the jobs hard-working American's need.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nativism happens when people who were born
in a country are systematically privileged over people who have
immigrated or are perceived to have immigrated. This shows that by
assuming that someone who has come to this country shouldn't be
considered for a job if an American is also qualified.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ethnocentrism</span></h3>
</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“You're Hispanic so you must really like Mexican food then”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is when members of a culture look down on people from other cultures. This is also making assumptions about a person's cultural identification based upon assumed ethnicity.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dyadism or Couple Privilege</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“We each have veto power for new partners because our relationship always comes first.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the assumption that the people in a pre-existing relationship (a dyad) is more important than a new relationship. This leads to systematic oppression of 'secondaries' in a poly relationship by the 'primary relationship'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eliteism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Here, read this.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the oppression of those without credentials or who are not literate by those who have credentials and are literate. In this case it is the assumption that the other person can read.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pro-natalism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“So, when are you going to have kids?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the assumption both of fertility and the desire to have children. Not everyone can have kids or wants them so this default is oppressive.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Language-bias</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Where did you learn to speak English so well?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a bias against people with English as a second language, this also appears when someone assumes English isn't the other person's primary language.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mentalism/Sanism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Oh him? He's just crazy don't worry about that.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is oppression of the neurotypical against the neuroatypical. This occurs either with the systematic oppression of those with mental illnesses or those assumed to have mental illnesses.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Domism</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“You're too mouthy to be a submissive,”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the oppression of those who take a submissive role by those who take a dominant role in a power exchange.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">American exceptionalism/American privilege</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“The African's should be grateful for our aid, we are clearly helping them out of a tough place."</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the oppression of non-American's by American people. This also, as with many other oppressions, extends to those assumed to not be from America. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<h2>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://www.derailingfordummies.com/">Derails </a>and Denies</span></h2>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Silencing</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Do we really need to have this discussion
now?”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, yes we do. Silencing is
also effectively done with pretty much any other derail or deny. This
is an overt example – all of the other ones are silencing
techniques that can be a little less obvious.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patronization</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Your
right, I don't have to work to attend, I just sneeze and 100 dollar
bills fly out my nose.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The patronization techniques are many and
varied but generally involve, snark, sarcasm, hyperbole, or a
protestation of innocence. Sometimes these get combined together for
one big whopping patronization fest.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Infantalizing</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Stop acting like a child.” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Telling the person that their behavior
isn't age appropriate isn't just ageist, it's a derail! This demeans
the other person and shuts down the argument.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dismissing</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“You're just seeing problems where there
aren't any.” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If we pretend it isn't there it goes away
right? No. Dismissing that there is even a problem just forces it to
get even more insidious. This is why “colorblindness” is such a
big problem. (well, one of the reasons)
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uninformed</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I didn't know, so you can't blame me.”</i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ignorance may seem like the perfect alibi
but it isn't. After all, there are a huge number of resources out
there for you to educate yourself with so ignorance isn't an excuse.
Ignorance is something that can only be afforded with privilege.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Appropriation</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Oh my gosh, I have so been there too! I
mean, I know I'm not black but people totally make fun of me because
I'm so pale!” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No. Just... No. Unless you are in the
target group you don't get to appropriate their experience. This
happens all the time and just makes the discussion about the
privileged again and frankly, they have had their space, it's the
time for the target groups to get a voice. Oh and it denies target
groups their experiences, trivializing them. In this case it's
comparing the systematic oppression of a person of color with someone
teasing because of skin tone.
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">False Argument</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“Complaining
at the cost of something like this, and calling it classist, reeks of
entitlement to me. Like they should just hand tickets out to
everyone, and if they don't, well, they're discriminating” </i></span></blockquote>
<div style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is when someone, rather than arguing about the oppression you're
actually talking about, argues about something similar but not the
actual question. This makes them feel like they are arguing against
you but often leaves you with a face/palm. In this case discussing
classism doesn't assume that the event has to be free, just that the
policies don't systematically exclude people due to their class.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Attack!</span></h3>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“if
you don't want a discussion to take a hostile tone, then maybe you
shouldn't throw out such dirty and accusatory words as "privilege"
at people who really worked hard to get somewhere just because you
didn't.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is when they don't discuss the issue
at hand but instead attack you, your tone, or your word use. Who
needs discussions when you can just flame!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Downplay</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“I'm sure it isn't as bad as you think.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is when someone not of the target
group, assures the person trying to discuss or interrupt oppression
that they are exaggerating. This minimizes the problem and allows it
to be dismissed, not talked about, and also allows it to continue.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Red Herring</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“why are we talking about racism? The real
problem is the systematic oppression of the poor!” </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This happens when the person just changes
the subject. Sometimes this is done by some who isn't in the social
justice field or doing social justice work, but it also is often done
within those doing the work. This perpetuates the system but
literally silencing the ones discussing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am sure there are more of these since lists like this are never complete so if you have additions, corrections or suggests please send me a message or leave a comment! Thanks. </span></div>
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