That strength which in old days moved earth and heaven...

[bcholmes]

firecat writes some interesting stuff about teh intersectionality matter. I think that her points are very important, and I want to think about and write about them a bit more.

firecat, for the record, has taught me a great deal about fat activism, and I am indebted to her for that.

Comments

[sarah-dragon.livejournal.com]

That was very thought provoking, thank you for linking it. It resonates with some of the things that run through my mind on a regular basis. I mean even within the Trans community we catagorize and rank.

As a tangent, something came to mind when I was thinking about this: Is the Trans community itself too obsessed with beauty? I have been fortunate that being a larger t-person I have not run into a great deal of overt "wow she's fat", kinds of things, although I have of course run into the whole pass/do not pass thing. I wonder though if there isn't maybe some inborn prejudice: everyone wants to be the beauty queen or king.

Oh well just me rambling as usual I guess.0

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Back when my partner was doing more mtf community work than she does now we ran into a lot of mtf women with eating disorders.

I know eating disorders are rife in queer world generally, but there was a specific gendered spin on it, ie, "this is how women behave around food" (that is, as crazy as possible).

It's part of the reason we backed out - that, and the whole "my surgeon would totally beat yours in a cage match" thing.

[firecat]

Thanks! You've taught me a lot about trans activism (and many other things).