Status Updates From Trans/Rad/Fem

Oh look it’s my life but someone else is writing it

"Many relations of power are interwoven with(hetero)sexuality, cleaving differences between private and public women, between women you “take home to the parents” and women whose very identity marks them as lesser, as fit for little more than being consumed and then discarded by men."

“…heterosexuality-as-regime is set up to extract domestic, sexual and reproductive labor from those deemed women under its logics. Its definition of womanhood and the narrowness of her stipulated role in society is oriented around domestic confinement, in rigorously naturalizing a positionality of abjection and servility towards others.”

so well said. cf kate manne’s down girl