nemoTheCatfish [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: December 1st, 2021

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  • i would say no

    I’ve been thinking about this some recently after doing some reading… and more and more I’m recognizing that the enforced gender binary is bullshit and bad for us, all of us. Like @Infamousblt@hexbear.net I’ve benefitted from many privileges being a cishet man and think basic male culture is especially bad and would like to distance myself from it when I can. But I don’t really feel like I issues with my body. I’ve wanted to paint my nails and think that kilts should make a comeback. But I never thought of that of anything other than a different sense of style. Given all of that it really feels like I’d be stealing trans valor if I were to go “I’m gonna present like a normie cis dude but declare myself nonbinary for political reasons.” I was going to make a post about this at some point so thank you for the opportunity. I accept being a part of the cis-purge if that’s the plan lmao

    Either way Care-Comrade












  • thank you!

    “Nobody Is Talking About This” - Patricia Lockwood. Booker shortlist. It’s the experience of an online “celebritry” liberal white woman over a few years. Covid, “the dictator”, etc. It’s written in pithy disjointed paragraphs kind of like the author is tweeting it. Then a serious matter with the author’s sister and it’s become a little meditation on that. It’s pretty.

    “Salvation: Black People and Love” - bell hooks. I’ve seen ms. hooks justifiably criticized on here but I thought I’d see for myself. I read lots of poc authors for February and this is wrapping that up. I don’t have a ton of thoughts on this book, I don’t think I am the target audience as a melanin-freefolk but it is interesting for the perspective. I had to finish Rashid Khalidi’s history of the war on Palestine as my nonfiction first.

    I also have a bookmark in a collection of Maya Angelou’s poems that I’ve been neglecting. Trying to keep a balanced reading load with a fiction, a nonfiction, and a poetry collection this year. And I’ve got some beginner’s theory opened in a couple of tabs that I’ve been chipping away at.