Thanks so much for all the love on this post!! I've been working hard for years to build an audience on this platform, so getting all these shares and new subscribers is really affirming! 😊 I write about gender, technology, and culture every week, so stay tuned for more works like this and feel free to follow me on some other socials: www.ThatAnnaMarie.com
Also, here are even more book & article recommendations if you want to learn more about the connections between gender, race, science, and capitalism:
~The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Dr. Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí
~Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Kit Heyam
~Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici
~Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini
~Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings
~Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi
Beautifully woven through a number of layered subjects, making them come together into a single clear picture. Your article gives so much to think about.
Thank you so much!! Note that as a white person, I should not be the final voice you listen to on this subject :) I strongly recommend reading White Tears/Brown Scars and some of the other resources referenced!
Of course! It’s actually a really interesting subject, to what point should we as white women be voicing opinions on this vs. reading and amplifying the opinions of black and brown writers…. I do think there is value to both, as things move forward best when we’re all exchanging views. Also I always feel there is a special strength to you calling out your own.
Ahhh…the Olympics. It’s always a treat to see so many exceptional athletes, and again this time, to see some cis people’s repulsive reactions To some truly exceptional people who have innate abilities.
Instead of simply marveling, like some people do, when we get to see Imane Khelif, or previously Caster Semenya, we get to witness a firestorm of bigotry, racism, and appallingly misplaced transphobia.
Cisgender white people don’t have a monopoly on oppressing gender diversity, but, they sure as hell seek to have the lion’s share of it.
Thank you for sharing this excellent piece with all of us Anna Marie.
Imane reminds me of all the other Algerian young women I’ve seen walking around Paris when I lived there: in cafes, bookstores, on bicycles…and those beautiful dimples as well! everyone just needs to relax. jeez.
Yes to all of this! Look at a picture of Imane next to a picture of Princess Di and the structural similarities are uncanny. (My daughter actually pointed this out to me.) Imane is beautiful! But, not white. All of this bigotry is just so transparent and disappointing.
Thanks so much for all the love on this post!! I've been working hard for years to build an audience on this platform, so getting all these shares and new subscribers is really affirming! 😊 I write about gender, technology, and culture every week, so stay tuned for more works like this and feel free to follow me on some other socials: www.ThatAnnaMarie.com
Also, here are even more book & article recommendations if you want to learn more about the connections between gender, race, science, and capitalism:
~The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Dr. Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí
~Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Kit Heyam
~Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Silvia Federici
~Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini
~Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings
~Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi
Thank you Anna for laying it all out there. Much to think about and discuss with those who feel otherwise.
You're so welcome! I post about this kind of stuff weekly, so feel free to subscribe and share :)
Beautifully woven through a number of layered subjects, making them come together into a single clear picture. Your article gives so much to think about.
Thank you so much!! Note that as a white person, I should not be the final voice you listen to on this subject :) I strongly recommend reading White Tears/Brown Scars and some of the other resources referenced!
Of course! It’s actually a really interesting subject, to what point should we as white women be voicing opinions on this vs. reading and amplifying the opinions of black and brown writers…. I do think there is value to both, as things move forward best when we’re all exchanging views. Also I always feel there is a special strength to you calling out your own.
Ahhh…the Olympics. It’s always a treat to see so many exceptional athletes, and again this time, to see some cis people’s repulsive reactions To some truly exceptional people who have innate abilities.
Instead of simply marveling, like some people do, when we get to see Imane Khelif, or previously Caster Semenya, we get to witness a firestorm of bigotry, racism, and appallingly misplaced transphobia.
Cisgender white people don’t have a monopoly on oppressing gender diversity, but, they sure as hell seek to have the lion’s share of it.
Thank you for sharing this excellent piece with all of us Anna Marie.
Cheers!
Exactly!! Thanks a bunch for your comment ^.^
Imane reminds me of all the other Algerian young women I’ve seen walking around Paris when I lived there: in cafes, bookstores, on bicycles…and those beautiful dimples as well! everyone just needs to relax. jeez.
Good Lord. I had no idea how freaky they were getting.
Looks more and more like a set up/planned.
Very insightful and educational piece! Thanks for making a topic/subject that many make so (unnecessarily) complicated easy to understand!
You’re welcome!
Yes to all of this! Look at a picture of Imane next to a picture of Princess Di and the structural similarities are uncanny. (My daughter actually pointed this out to me.) Imane is beautiful! But, not white. All of this bigotry is just so transparent and disappointing.
I saw that comparison too!! The racism is getting pretty blatant, I just hope it starts waking people up to how weird transphobia is!
This is a really excellent, thorough explanation of the subject. Thank you.
Brilliant! I didn't know this but it also doesn't surprise me in the least. In fact it makes perfect sense.
Thank you, Jasmine! Yes, transphobes will pick the weirdest things to be mad about!
You're welcome😊 That they do🫤