quartz242

I gathered this awhile back:

https://hexbear.net/post/279079

kbin-scoped

there is also !ttrpg@hexbear.net

So now you care about animal liberation?

I personally believe that the active moderators of a community have the choice of who to add as moderators and who to bring into their community.

Ask which community? !vegan@hexbear.net chose to merge with the vcj lifeboat

I personally do not think it was a massive fail.

We were providing a community that shares similar ideological aspects a lifeboat community, there are a few others as well. This one rather than getting it's own comm decided to merge with !vegan@hexbear.net The mods of that comm and the mods for the lifeboat comm both wanted to do this.

I personally think that we should be raising up the community moderators in their cultivation of community. There are mod drives so that those who are passionate about their community can moderate it.

“People often squabble over what defines a person as a woman or a man—whether it should be based on their chromosomes, assigned sex, genitals, or other factors—but such reductionist views deny our indisputably holistic gendered realities. For all of us, gender is first and foremost an individual experience, an amalgamation of our own unique combinations of gender inclinations, social interactions, body feelings, and lived experiences.”

“Coming face-to-face with an individual who has crossed class barriers of gender or attractiveness can help us recognize the extent to which our own biases, assumptions, and stereotypes create those class systems in the first place. But rather than question our own value judgments or notice the ways that we treat people differently based on their size, beauty, or gender, most of us reflexively react to these situations in a way that reinforces class boundaries: We focus on the presumed “artificiality” of the transformation the subject has undergone. Playing up the “artificial” aspects of the transformation process gives one the impression that the class barrier itself is “natural,” one that could not have been crossed if it were not for modern medical technology.”

“So long as we refuse to accept that "woman" is a holistic concept, one that includes all people who experience themselves as women, our concept of womanhood will remain a mere reflection of our own personal experiences and biases rather than something based in the truly diverse world that surrounds us.” Julia Serano

Great post, per usual capitalism has no qualms profiting off our bodies yet misses an opportunity to use "cyberpunk" and transhumanist themes to be able to articulate the challenges and nuance of the trans experience in an accessible way instead they layed onto the tired trope of sexualizing the transfeminine and ignoring the trans masculine.