We are a cisgender queer femme lesbian, a female-assigned queer butch lesbian, and a queer trans guy intending to reach those in our communities (who ID as white, radical/left & queer) through satire. We're poking fun at ourselves while also pointing out how some discussions get centered, some get glossed over, and some are avoided (ex. white "radical queer" uniform often including Mohawks = cultural appropriation). We hope the video is adding to/encouraging conversations about space white anti-racist activists take up, classism, downward mobility, gentrification, radical-queer-snobbery, Bay Area/coastal/urban centrism, and -- what else? Thanks to everyone who is watching and commenting!!! Because of feedback we've gotten, we wanted to discuss white transmasculine-centrism in our communities. We also don't want this, or talking about whether or not the video is trans-guy-phobic, to be the centerpiece of these dialogues. In Bay Area queer communities we're part of (and most likely elsewhere), (trans)masculinity is valorized, pedestalized, celebrated and consistently affirmed as ultra-queer, ultra-political, ultra-hot, and ultra-trans. This can make "trans" synonymous with transguys, invisibilizing all kindsa people including transwomen, transdykes, femmes who are trans, etc. This also invisibilizes folks who live in rural/non urban communities—where being a guy who is trans might not get the ultra-approval we're taking to task. Patriarchy and racism make disproportionate <b>...</b>
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