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Welcome to /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, an anti-capitalist meme community for transgender and gender diverse people.
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Hi everybody! My schedule has been really unforgiving, so I may or may not end up writing something and making changes to the post later in the week.
Regardless, I hope you all have a good week!
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Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
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You can find updates on this group on the link below. You should only trust information provided in this link and verified via our general Simplex Chat mentioned in the link below. We have affiliates that will be monitoring Hexbear and other trans groups to assist people. Our goal is to securely help transgender people in unusual circumstances with basic necessities that trans people need. Thank you.
We suggest viewing this link via TOR or VPN, while this site (hosted by a trans person) mentions they do not log IP, you can never be 100% sure about hosting providers. All further updates will be only through this URL and our Simplex Chat.
https://pad.artemislena.eu/code/#/2/code/view/OBjUSvB-We-z4zoAFcFp2qicIFWwExL81W9sdkwILBY/
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We would like to thank our donors, you have been instrumental in allowing our group to function. We have been able to help trans people with your donations and are requesting further support.
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Hey folks, hoping to have a semi-permanent thread for compiling resources to make finding really cool posts easier. Please suggest links and info in the comments below. I consider this necessary because there's a lot of things we would like pinned but obviously things get very crowded quickly. This thread will start sparse and I will edit new things in as people suggest them.
Transgender Mutual Aid
These posts are done by a transgender mutual aid group looking to help people in unusual circumstances. Please contact me if you need help with HRT info, their posts here are for donors only.
Trans Chemist Series
These posts are done by a Hexbear user that I have verified as legit, offering unique information about trans DIY hrt, including quality sources, sanitation, storage recommendations. Verified by very expensive industrial chemistry equipment.
DIY Electrolysis Series
There posts are also done by a Hexbear user that is making an open source DIY electrolysis setup.
Elara's Transonomicon
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https://trans.queer.my.id/ id change stuff
PSAs
Site Surveys
Guides
Links
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https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ (this link has allegedly been problematic deep into the past, but seems to have cleaned up a lot)
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/r/transdiy wiki archive : https://archive.md/gDgj1
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/r/transwiki wiki archive : https://archive.md/OzyAk
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trans australia : https://trans.au/
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haircuts for trans people : https://strandsfortrans.org/
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.Do It Yourself - Hormone Replacement Therapy - Very Basic Information Thread on DIY HRT. https://hexbear.net/post/8763710, guide to using Monero, a private cryptocurrency
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https://hrtcafe.net/ - DIY sources
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how do I determine my dosage / how do I take estrogen safely? http://transfemscience.org/
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https://transfemme.style/ clothing for trans fems
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https://estrannai.se/ - estradiol simulator with a wide range of features
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https://diyhrt.info/ - informational wiki on DIY HRT with transmasc and transfem guides; a successor to diyhrt.wiki
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https://diyhrt.market/ a compendium of HRT vendors, similar to hrtcafe
Webrings and Friends
Public Chats
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https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat - Our public group chat, text only. Has fun emojis
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https://www.transacademy.org/ - Trans Academy is a VRChat group that provides help/community for trans people. Among other things, they do free bi-weekly voice training seminars (in VRChat but also streamed on Discord and Twitch) and make-up tutorials (on Discord), and the classes include content for transmasc, enby, transfem peeps. VRChat is free and doesn't require VR (using the desktop or android app), but you can also participate in most of the class stuff through the Discord.
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Dia daoibh a chairde!
Have you ever found yourself wanting to read a good book about queer feminism but you weren't sure where to look?
I have spent more hours than I would care to admit studying, writing about, and educating on the topic of gender and sexuality, and I've realized that I could lend a bit of my educational development work to you kind folks by prepping this here reading list.
I hope you can find something to interest you--and I would love to talk about any of the works listed. The categories are not hard and fast, with many books belonging in several of them, but I figured there had to be some way to organize this, so bear with me. I also tried to narrow inclusion to books relating to queer/feminist studies.
1. Introduction to Feminism
The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvior
This Sex Which Is Not One - Luce Irigaray
In the Beginning, She Was - Luce Irigaray
An Ethics of Sexual Difference - Luce Irigaray
Speculum of Other Women - Luce Irigaray
The Political Economy of Women's Liberation - Margaret Benston
Women and Economics - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community - Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone
I am Woman: Native Perspective of Sociology and Feminism - Lee Maracle
I Myself am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling - Ding Ling
Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed
Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement - Anuradha Ghandy
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - Silvia Federici
Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories - Hilary Klein
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader - Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea - Hwasook Nam
Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place, and Irish Women - Bronwen Walter
2. Intersectionality and Black Feminism
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Geraldine Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor
Women, Race, and Class - Angela Y. Davis
Women, Culture, and Politics - Angela Y. Davis
Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology - Margaret L. Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins
Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge
Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice - Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ruth Enid Zambrana and Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound - Daphne A. Brooks
3. Trans* and Gender Diversity
The Transfeminist Manifesto - Emi Koyama
Transfeminism: A Collection - Emi Koyama
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us - Kate Bornstein
Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation - Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender - Riki Wilchins
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - Leslie Feinberg
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman - Leslie Feinberg
Beyond Gender Binaries: The History of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender Individuals - Rita Santos
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity - Julia Serano
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive - Julia Serano
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back - Julia Serano
Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism - Julia Serano
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People - Viviane K. Namaste
Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism - Viviane K. Namaste
My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage - Susan Stryker
The Transgender Studies Reader - Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle
The Transgender Studies Reader 2 - Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution - Susan Stryker
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category - David Valentine
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality - Jay Prosser
You've Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity - Laurie J. Shrage
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives - Judith Halberstam
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States - Joanne Meyerowitz
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality - Gayle Salamon The Lives of Transgender People - Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad - Hil Malatino
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary - Morty Diamond
Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice - Merrick Daniel Pilling
Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism - Patricia Gherovici
Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach - Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - Don Kulick
Beyond Emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh - Adnan Hossain
Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South Asia - Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment and Jeff Roy
Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines - Mark Johnson
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America - Will Roscoe
4. Understanding Intersex
Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Sex/Gender/Biology in a Social World - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex - Alice Dromurat Dreger
Intersex - Catherine Harper
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex - Elizabeth Reis
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud - Thomas Walter Laqueur
Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis - Georgiann Davis
The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex - Hida Vilori and Maria Nieto
Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity - Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub
Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience - Hil Malatino
Critical Intersex - Morgan Holmes
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience - Katrina Karkazis
Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism - David A. Rubin
Intersex Rights: Living Between Sexes - Nikoletta Pikramenou
Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives - Stefan Horlacher
Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kinky, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People - Brandy L. Simula, J. E. Sumerau and Andrea Miller
Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives - Angela Pattatuchi Aragón
5. Queer Theory and Philosophy
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - Judith Butler
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex - Judith Butler
Undoing Gender - Judith Butler
Performativity and Performance - Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others - Sara Ahmed
Deleuze and Queer Theory - Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr
Epistemology of the Closet - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Tendencies - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, and Performativity - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation - Fintan Walsh
New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment - Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz
Sexual Subversions - Elizabeth Grosz
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power - Elizabeth Grosz
Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn
Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism - Silvia Federici
Thinking Through the Skin - Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism - Sara Ahmed
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality - Sara Ahmed
Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction - Elizabeth Grosz
A Rave at the End of the World: The Politics of Queer Hauntology and Psychedelic Chronomancy - Sean Michael Feiner
Queer/Early/Modern - Carla Freccero
6. Exploring Sexuality
The Straight Mind and Other Essays - Monique Wittig
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town - Esther Newton
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas - Esther Newton
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America - Esther Newton
Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities - Mary McAuliffe
Witchcraft and Gay Counterculture - Arthur Evans
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader - Gayle S. Rubin
Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life - Denise Tse-Shang Tang
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China - Hongwei Bao
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires - Francisca Yuenki Lai
Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten - Travis S. K. Kong
Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies - Chou Wah-Shan
The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China - Tze-Lan D. Sang
Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China - Tiantian Zheng
Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography - Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary - Fran Martin
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan - Xianyong Bai and Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Queer Sinophone Cultures - Howard Chiang and Ari Larissa Heinrich
Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities - Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature - Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe
Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures - Gul Ozyegin
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland - Anthony Bradley and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis
7. Cultural Critique
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings - Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora
The Dress of Women: A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety - Marjorie Garber
Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice - Mark Thompson
Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback - Susan Stryker
Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories - Zheng Wang
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture - Lisa Rofel
Transgender China - Howard Chiang
A Society Without Fathers of Husbands: the Na of China - Cai Hua
Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures - Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder and Hongwei Bao
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality and Chineseness - Jamie J. Zhao
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism - Hongwei Bao
Queer Media in China - Hongwei Bao
Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Culture in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - Maud Lavin, Ling Yang and Jing Jamie Zhao
Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music - Tes Slominski
Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature - Peter Berresford Ellis
The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power - Jennifer M. Jeffers
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power - Linden Peach
LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland - Páraic Kerrigan
The Poor Bugger's Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History - Patrick R. Mullen
Women and the Irish Nation: Gender, Culture, and Irish Identity, 1890-1914 - D. A. J. MacPherson
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Smut: Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology - Murray S. Davis
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society - Lila Abu-Lughod
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories - Lila Abu-Lughod
Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. - Laura E. Ruberto
Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights - Peter Jackson
8. Queer Marxism
Transgender Marxism - Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke
Transition and Abolition: Notes on Marxism and Trans Politics - Jules Joanne Gleeson
Lavender and Red - Leslie Feinberg
Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons - Silvia Federici
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle - Silvia Federici
The Problematics of Heterosexuality: Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Mother Nature - Hilary Manette Klein
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection - Holly Lewis
Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation - Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin and Heather A. Brown
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas - Petrus Liu
Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964 - Zheng Wang
Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era - Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng and Bai Di
The Women's Revolution: Russia 1905 - 1917 - Judy Cox
Social-Democracy and Woman Suffrage - Clara Zetkin
Lenin on the Woman Question - Clara Zetkin
The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex-Role Socialization in the USSR - Lynne Attwood
Revolution, She Wrote - Clara Fraser
9. Abolition
Abolition. Feminism. Now. - Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color - Andrea J. Ritchie
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation - Beth E. Richie
We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba
Abolitionist Intimacies - El Jones
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States - Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - Eric A. Stanley
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade
Transgender Sex Work and Society - Larry Nutbrock
Revolting Prostitutes - Molly Smith and Juno Mac
Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State - Judith R. Walkowitz
The Social Construction of AIDS Issues - Suiming Pan
Thinking Differently About HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science - Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane K. Namaste
Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide - Ardath Whynacht
Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence - Lexie Bean
Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea - Eunjung Kim
10. Anti-Imperialism and Internationalism
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times - Jasbir Puar
Class, Gender, and Neoliberalism - Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale
Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation - Geraldine Moane
Gender and Imperialism - Clare Midgley
The Beginning and End of R-pe: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America - Sarah Deer
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide - Andrea Smith
Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance - Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-Lughod
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress - Stephanie Cronin
Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon - Nicola Pratt
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine - Nada Elia
Palestinian Women's Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism - Islah Jad
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International - Sarah Schulman
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Saed Atshan
Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude - Saffo Papantonopoulou
Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case-Study - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges - María Lugones, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space: Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean - Eve Walsh Stoddard
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice - Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed
Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact - Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence - Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific - Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism - J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
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The picture is from like page 2 (or "page 4") of chapter 2 of the Esperanto translation of Sailor Moon on Mangadex.
Esperanto estro ("leader") is from the productive suffix -estro ("leader of..."), itself from Italian maestro ("master").
I'm frankly curious how much of a coincidence this really is, though. I can rule out the "es" parts in estrogen and maestro being cognate, but I don't know about the "tro": in maestro the "tro" traces to PIE *-teros (forms contrastive adjectives), whereas in estrogen the "tro" traces to...... Well, no online etymological dictionaries want to say! So it seems possible but not super likely to be from that same PIE suffix.
The word estro also shows up in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish as a regular reflex of Latin oestrus, and interestingly enough Wiktionary also tells me that estro is a word in Galician meaning "oven floor" or "animal bedding", cognate to English stratum.
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I want to give surveys to a large sample size of users while filtering out bots and without compromising the privacy of the actual survey respondents. I figure a lot of the people whose voices need to be heard will have legitimate fears of being hunted down.
Traditional captcha is easy for AI to crack, but reverse captcha should hypothetically be more difficult.
My intention is to randomly generate a set of alphanumeric characters with each instance of the survey, and request the user to draw the characters as best as they can. The resulting answer to the "captcha" would be saved with the rest of the form data, alongside the randomly generated characters for that instance of the form. The idea is to exclude blank and nonsensical responses, as a quick-and-dirty bot filter.
My current plan is to create the surveys using Google Forms (with sign-in not being required and user email not being collected) and create an embed/plugin that allows the user to draw, ideally formatted for a mobile device. I would collect the drawings with the rest of the form responses, but nothing else. I do have concerns about storage.
If you have a better suggestion of how to go about this, I welcome comments. I do also have my own domain but I haven't used it for anything yet. I struggle with executive dysfunction pretty badly.
If you'd prefer to chat with me about this on Discord, just let me know and I'll DM you my Discord username.
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How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn
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Thai Public Health Ministry allocates 145.63 million baht to trans healthcare
(www.bangkokpost.com)
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Hiiii!
Today: a short yap about computer hardware:
Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.
Computers are fun! ~~(and expensive)~~
Join our public Matrix server!
https://matrix.to//#/#tracha-space:transfem.dev
https://rentry.co/tracha#tracha-rooms
As a reminder, please do not discuss current struggle sessions in the mega. We want this to be a little oasis for all of us and the best way to do that is not to feed into existing conflict on the site.
Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
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Hi Everyone! I'm planning on adding stuff here but first enjoy your new weekly mega <3
Join our public Matrix server!
https://matrix.to//#/#tracha-space:transfem.dev
https://rentry.co/tracha#tracha-rooms
As a reminder, please do not discuss current struggle sessions in the mega. We want this to be a little oasis for all of us and the best way to do that is not to feed into existing conflict on the site.
Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
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