Nevertheless, this tiny group has attracted a disproportionate amount of attention in the past several years, in large part thanks to social-media platforms. TERFs constitute “a minority of a minority of feminists,” says Grace Lavery, a UC Berkeley literature professor and writer. The name the community has chosen for itself is the somewhat more palatable “gender critical,” though, as other feminists often point out, that name means nothing all feminism is critical of gender. They had experienced the same guilt over breaking with their communities, and now they had one another.Īmong other online feminists, the common name for this group Fain found is “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” or TERFs. These women were asking the same questions that she was, going through the same uncomfortable situations with their friends, feeling the same moment of disenchantment. “I first found the community while I was still looking for answers,” Fain said. Though she’d never had much use for social media before, on Reddit she found a forum-or “subreddit”-where tens of thousands of members, predominantly women, were devoted to the insistence that trans women are not women. Like many, Fain’s political transformation was helped along by the internet. Eventually, her beliefs radicalized further: She became convinced that trans women are men and trans-rights activism is just another weapon of the patriarchy. After volunteering at a domestic-violence shelter and experiencing an abusive relationship herself, she committed to some of the radical feminist ideology most often affiliated with the second-wave icon Andrea Dworkin, which is focused on the roots and prevalence of male violence. In college, however, her ideas about feminism shifted. Growing up, she told me, she had a pretty standard set of progressive values-her primary focus was animal rights, and her feminism was reflexive, mainstream. The mess.Ī slow-burn, Kim-POV story about going to the 41st, against his better judgement.Mary Kate Fain, a 27-year-old engineer and writer living in Houston, has always considered herself a feminist.
He should think very carefully about it - about whether it’s worth getting mixed up in all this. If Kim does go to the 41st, navigating all this will be an extra layer of complexity. Still, it feels cruel to punish this person for it, this wiped-clean, remade Harry, looking at Kim now like a bottle-fed animal about to be released into the wild. It’s clear what he’s been through, what Harry has subjected him to over the last few years - Kim only knows the half of it, of course, but he’s seen it before, hermit-cops pushing everyone away, their partner last man standing at the bombsite. Production of game making spaces & selling elysium both comment on za/um's decision to relocate to London (& how that sits with the game's radical politics) in ways I think are noteworthy & indicative of the game industry's composition disco elysium ooooo “You Won’t Even Know Who You Are Anymore”: Bakthinian Polyphony and the Challenge to the Ludic Subject in Disco Elysium.“Making Sense in a Senseless World”: Disco Elysium’s Absurd Hero.“What kind of cop are you?”: Disco Elysium’s Technologies of the Self within the Posthuman Multiverse.The Object Gives Rise to Thought: Hermeneutics of Objects in Disco Elysium.The Hanged Rhizome on the Tree: Arborescence and Multiplicity in Disco Elysium.Selling Elysium: the political economy of radical game distribution.Production of Game Making Spaces: Disco Elysium and the game making community in Estonia.Open-access academic journal Baltic Screen Media Review released a whole issue on Disco Elysium in Dec 2021
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