A chairdre! I’m leading a discussion group on this collection of essays, and I thought this might be of interest to some of my Internet comrades.
Firstly, the essay collection in question: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0b3d5edcb7_jules-joanne-gleeson-transgender-marxism-1.pdf
Alright, so I’m reading through this in order to prepare some notes for my discussion. Thought it might be fun to have a few discussion threads here. This first thread is for the lengthy editors’ introduction. I will make a separate thread for each essay as I read them.
I’ll grab some quotes, type up some thoughts, hope I can spark a discussion! If not, that’s fine, I at least hope someone will benefit from having the link to the PDF.
I’ll edit this post with links to the subsequent posts (though I’m only going to be doing the intro and the first essay today, I’m a busy lady).
Edit 1: The discussion for the first essay by Noah Zazanis is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/396403
Edit 2: The discussion for the second essay by Michelle O’Brien is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/397671
Edit 3: The discussion for the third essay by Rosa Lee is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/401480
Edit 4: The discussion for the fourth essay by Jules Joanne Gleeson is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/402441
Edit 5: The discussion for the fifth essay by Nat Raha is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/408500
Edit 6: The discussion for the sixth essay by Virgínia Guitzel is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/412487
Edit 7: The discussion for the seventh essay by Kate Doyle Griffiths is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/414322
Edit 8: The discussion for the eighth essay by Farah Thompson is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/417377
Edit 9: The discussion for the ninth essay by JN Hoad is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/424986
Edit 10: The discussion for the tenth essay by Zoe Belinsky is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/437038
Edit 11: The discussion for the eleventh essay by CAACD is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/444545
Edit 12: The discussion for the eleventh essay by Nathaniel Dickson is here - https://lemmygrad.ml/post/508468
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I have a feeling that some of the essays in this collection will egg me into talking more about it, but in the off-chance they don’t, I’ll make a note here that after we finish this collection I’ll make a thread for discussions about the pathologising of trans identities and the prevalence of transmedicalism in public trans speakers. It’s not entirely coincidental, to my mind, that trans women who are allowed to have a platform tend to push the state’s preferred narrative of what constitutes a trans identity/experience
Edit: I realize here I specifically mentioned trans women with a platform, and I want to clarify that the reason is because trans men and non-binary, third-gender, genderqueer, and two-spirit people are pretty much (with rare exceptions) never allowed a platform at all.