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are longer, more in depth conversations your cup of tea? here is the place to do that, please set boundaries if you need them and try to come up with plain language summaries of any walls of text transheart (edited)
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seb it/they pinned a message to this channel. 04/13/2023 12:04 PM
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Im just dropping this here because I’ve been reading about childism. Obviously this article is in a parenting context but I think ideas like this are useful in determining why children deserve bodily autonomy and the right decide their own identity https://www.racheous.com/respectful-parenting/the-dehumanisation-of-children/
Simply sitting back and observing in a general crowd with children it becomes clear so quickly that children seemingly require permission to be human by so many adults. To cry. To make mistakes. To go to the toilet. To have a hard time. To feel heard. To be excited. To be scared. To feel safe. […]
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Anabelle (She/Her/Hers) 04/29/2023 12:23 AM
agreed. it's important to frame the fight for trans youth in the context of child liberation. in 2019 i saw an article that offered tips to parents to like, deprogram their trans children and it just, broke me to see the things that parents could do to exert power on their children. It suggested that you pull them out of school & start homeschooling them, that you isolate them from IRL friends and digital messaging platforms, that you control their internet access, etc. Just thinking about the helplessness of the imaginary child in the article makes me queasy.
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Anabelle (She/Her/Hers)
agreed. it's important to frame the fight for trans youth in the context of child liberation. in 2019 i saw an article that offered tips to parents to like, deprogram their trans children and it just, broke me to see the things that parents could do to exert power on their children. It suggested that you pull them out of school & start homeschooling them, that you isolate them from IRL friends and digital messaging platforms, that you control their internet access, etc. Just thinking about the helplessness of the imaginary child in the article makes me queasy.
AthenaTheCommie (she/they) 04/29/2023 12:25 AM
i have watched as friends and my own students have had this done to them by their parents, and felt entirely powerless to stop them, its hell
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Anabelle (She/Her/Hers)
agreed. it's important to frame the fight for trans youth in the context of child liberation. in 2019 i saw an article that offered tips to parents to like, deprogram their trans children and it just, broke me to see the things that parents could do to exert power on their children. It suggested that you pull them out of school & start homeschooling them, that you isolate them from IRL friends and digital messaging platforms, that you control their internet access, etc. Just thinking about the helplessness of the imaginary child in the article makes me queasy.
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Im just dropping this here because I’ve been reading about childism. Obviously this article is in a parenting context but I think ideas like this are useful in determining why children deserve bodily autonomy and the right decide their own identity https://www.racheous.com/respectful-parenting/the-dehumanisation-of-children/
i did some surface level reading about ageism/youth liberation stuff last year and i really liked this essay by Ashanti Alston: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ashanti-alston-childhood-the-psychological-dimension-of-revolution i can drop some of the other works i read about it if you're interested
Ashanti Alston Childhood & The Psychological Dimension of Revolution 1983
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NightOwlLuna 05/17/2023 11:07 AM
I was scrolling the web not long ago and come across the words, transmisic and and transmisia in place of transphobia and transphobic. I am curious to know how trans people feel about that? about the language we use surrounding that? Do you think it could be beneficial for trans people and people who have actual phobias? I come across this site that talk about it. https://diversitypride.org/misiapledge.html (edited)
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i tend to use anti-queer, anti-gay and anti-trans usually
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Camryn Aisling 05/17/2023 11:19 AM
I like the idea of replacing the phobia terminology, but I think the forms used by char are generally better because they're readily understandable without any knowledge of greek roots. Also, this is more of a nitpick, but that page got the history a little bit wrong.
Other terms such as Islamophobia or xenophobia was later coined to describe irrational fear towards other communities.
"Xenophobia" was originally coined in the 1880s.
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char
i tend to use anti-queer, anti-gay and anti-trans usually
"fascist" tends to apply in most situations as well ☝
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yeah - plus terms like antisemitism are already in use too
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char
i tend to use anti-queer, anti-gay and anti-trans usually
NightOwlLuna 05/17/2023 11:24 AM
Makes sense 🙂
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"fascist" tends to apply in most situations as well ☝
NightOwlLuna 05/17/2023 11:24 AM
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Bigot has become very mainstream-ified but I think catch all terms are good in a lot of situations because of the intersectional nature of hate
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Hayden (he/they) 05/17/2023 11:36 AM
I think the term has to be specific for the situation. Usually there are layers of bigotry but specifically naming what's going on is always relevant
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^^Yeah thats what I was trying to imply
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avoiding "-phobia" also de-pathologizes the various types of hatred listed (and not listed) above
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AthenaTheCommie (she/they) 05/19/2023 5:48 PM
would anyone happen to have documents on how to help students with mental health crisis in a responsible way? im looking for something to send to my fellow teachers after the whole thing i posted in #vent-no-advice, because currently im not getting through to anyone when im saying "committing students bad" (edited)
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ColorfulKnoll 05/19/2023 6:08 PM
Sadly most things say to call 911. Even during my respite training we were taught that
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