her majesty the baby

feeling around for contact in the void. they/them and she/her.

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@DA_LarryKrasner if you care about justice and antiracism, free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Here is a free documentary about his life, work, and innocence: https://t.co/HVwqvzNbNp

[Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD | 道 🐲🌋 @taoleighgoffe]

unfortunately in graduate school the act of reading becomes oriented as an extractive practice and thus can easily lose its potential as a ritual of pleasure. sadly, reading becomes an act of harvesting or scavenging citations to cover bases and hedge bets.

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

It's strange to me how people use the word cope on here--as an insult? What does it imply about the evaluation of mal/adjustment? Isn't posting a way of coping in the first place?

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@Evollaqi ...non-reproductive sexual desires/practices (like contraceptive sex, masturbating to an image) are heterosexually bound to the extent that identifications with normative heterosexual desires/practices have been internalized and reproduced

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

"Bigot" is so loaded that it obscures the issue. Sexual desires are partially shaped by social norms. Could desires not to sleep with trans people be rooted in cisnormativity or transphobia in the same way that exclusively intra-white sexuality can be rooted in white supremacy?

[Evollaqi @Evollaqi]

The road from "people should be free to sleep with people of the same sex" to "if you do not want to sleep with someone of the same sex you are a bigot" seems to have been very short

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@Evollaqi so by "we" you seem to mean straight people. Hetero-attraction would certainly seem to have an evolutionary basis. But contemporary straightness (exclusive heterosexuality) generally groups together reproductive and non-reproductive sexual practices/desires. my guess is that 1/

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@bengalsubahdar ...relational/emotional potentials that I would not attribute to what I perceive to be a more feminine form. I might not *be a misogynist* even while misogynistic logics are playing out in my psyche

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@bengalsubahdar Again, hatred/bigotry might be a bad way of framing what I'm interested in here. It would be sufficient for certain unconscious associations to be mobilized in my preferences for larger structural normativities to be at play. Like I might see a masculine form and anticipate...

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@bengalsubahdar I think so, although "rooted" may imply a singular explanatory cause; there may be as many or more causes as there are cases of refusal. I am generally not attracted to cis women and less attracted to femmes than to masculine people. I think there's some misogyny in that.

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@Evollaqi What do you mean by biological bases for sexual attraction? sexual reproduction? or the physiological capacity and drive to release sexual tension? (obs there's lots of the latter that doesn't aim at the former). or something else?

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

@sammillsguitar @lesboseroroki @AyoCaesar No means no between a person asking and being asked to have sex with one another. If I'm hanging out with a friend and they express racist sexual preferences ("I would never...") then I am for sure interrogating that.

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

But is it a moral issue? Is someone good or bad based on unconsciously formed sexual desires? Can you will to desire otherwise? absent a process of encounter in which the undesired other becomes an object for your self-discovery journey?

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

fashionably late capitalism
graveyard shift capitalism
terminally ill capitalism
the late not-so-great Capitalism
early post-capitalism

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

Marquise de Sade's Sweetest Taboo

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

how many times will i open a new window to cope with too many tabs

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

is there a part of us that desires to be punished for failing?

[Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas @AbolitionF_ists]

Gender self determination allows us to remember that the color line is threaded at the nexus of cisheteropatriarchy and how it complicates, erases, and modifies indigenous gender/sexual lifeways, contradictions, institutions, etc.

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

Biden commits to share the benefits of globalization while climate refugees are lashed at the border

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

(academic) success is a seemingly endless gauntlet of performance anxiety. I just want to read and stare contemplatively at light on water

[her majesty the baby @hexed_x]

estimates range from 22,000-48,000 civilians killed by U.S. airstrikes since 9/11