"I'm A Whatever!" The Great Gonzo, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Queer Identity! https://culturalgutter.com/2025/04/05/im-a-whatever/ #TheMuppets #Gonzo #TheGreatGonzo #LGBTQIA #Queerness #Leotard #TheDifferend
Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?
"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#TransgenderAthletes #SexTesting
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMmGxLG2tQ
now I want to draw a sketch where a teacher introduces "cis Chad" who "identifies as a man" and "enjoys masculine hobbies, so he'll get along well with all you young men here." etc
Joshua Whitehead recommends three books that centre queerness
Canada Reads-winning author and poet Joshua Whitehead joins The Next Chapter to discuss three books that focus on queer life.
#books #literature #queerness #Radio #TheNextChapter
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/joshua-whitehead-recommends-three-books-that-centre-queerness-1.7459486?cmp=rss
What is queer typography? | Paul Soulellis
https://soulellis.com/wiqt/
https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/what-is-queer-typography-paul-soulellis/
Queer.Archive.Work Download Library
https://queer.archive.work/library/download/index.html https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/queer-archive-work-download-library/
This is now one of my absolute favorite movies. I've been crying trough the screening almost all the way trough.
It is three beautiful stories about #queerness, #HBTQIA+ and being #trans.
The movie follows three very different stories about three different people. It will soon release to theaters and hopefully streaming soon.
All the proceeds from the movie will also be donated to relevant organizations.
Mastodon. You ready for a long #queerecology thread? I saw someone justifying #queerness as a "natural" thing because we see it in other #organisms. I often challenge the rhetoric of there being "queer", "trans", or "gay" animals. But that's because "queerness" needs challenging. It needs it bc it is inherently #anthropocentric, and also #eurocentric as a #system of identification, even if the #interactions themselves are sourced in every #human system on the planet from years before #whiteness.
Konzerte | Kunsthandwerk | Workshops | Essen 
SAVE THE DATE 
5-jähriges Jubiläum des Rems-Queer-Kreis
Sa., 01.02.2025 in Backnang | Eintritt frei
Um unseren fünften Geburtstag als queere Gruppe im ländlichen Raum in diesem großen Umfang stemmen zu können, suchen wir DICH als ehrenamtliche Hilfe! Hast du Zeit dich neben dem Feiern ehrenamtlich für eine Schicht einzubringen? Dann melde dich beim Orga Team! Vielen Dank vorab für Dein Kommen und Engagement!
Aufbau / Abbau Thekenschichten (nur mit @juze_backnang Thekenführerschein) Essensausgabe Ton-/Lichttechnik Info- oder Essensstand deiner queeren Gruppe Kuchen- / Büffetspenden 
(gerne vegetarisch / vegan) Springer*in / Sonstiges Hast du weitere Fähigkeiten, die uns helfen könnten?
I will be in #Stockholm next week on a business trip and gonna need some #queerness for my mental sanity. 
Do you have recommendations? A bar or cafe or cultural event? No clubbing though. #Vegan food spots are also appreciated! 
@aemarielle c'est bien fait et correspond aussi à mon sens de la beauté, ce pas de côté qui renverse le système auquel s'appuie (toute?) l'imagerie habituelle de la lingerie qui s'approprie la grâce des corps pour vendre-sans-âme et rajouter une couche à la culture de la prédation en jouant sur l'imagerie du désir etc.
‘#Queerness is everywhere’
#Transgender and #nonbinary #Americans let us into their lives
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/11/us/transgender-nonbinary-americans-life-cnnphotos
I know for a lot of people this sounds like we are just simping for some candidate as if we were paid, but they're really is a stark difference.
Kamala Harris has talked of unity and the importance of respecting all #Americans, regardless of #race, religion, #queerness, or political opinion. Trump has brought wild divisive statements to new heights, claiming that Haitian immigrants are eating pets, Jews would be to blame for his loss, and members of the press and his own party should be shot.
It is no surprise that #MassShootings and other #HateCrimes shot up during his first campaign and peaked during his presidency, along with #CrimeRates in general.
Generally speaking, one can't even exist without seeing the ripple effects of this: people on the news, on the streets, at the kitchen table, repeating wildly divisive #misinformation that Trump and his movement have normalized.
We need to move away from the politics of #bigotry, #scapegoating, division.
We need to vote for Kamala Harris.
Explaining the #Trans #Narrative Behind This #AIDS Era #Salsa #Classic Going #Viral on #TikTok.
The #poignant #song tells the #story of #Simón, born in 1956 and raised to be “the big #man” by a #stern #father with #machista #hopes for his #child, and what happens when Simón #movesaway, #discovers their #queerness, and #transitions.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #CentralAmerica #Panama #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture
https://www.them.us/story/omar-alfanno-willie-colon-el-gran-varon-salsa-classic-aids
Social Media fällt heute aus. Ich bin krank und habe mich zu Kaffee und Kuscheldecke zurückgezogen. Ich wünsche euch einen schönen Tag. Lest doch ein bisschen was. :)
