Maria Tapie

Father Ubu, Emperor of the World

His tie pointing like an arrow at his navel

to realize in horror that Father Ubu is not a satire

The invisible violence of everyday life toward trans women quietly seeps through word choices meant to constantly reproach us for being too male, too female, or not female enough

When a Judaic apocalyptic reading from the early centuries , originally framed within an anti-imperial struggle , becomes, twenty centuries later, an imperialist pretext, it really reveals a kind of ignorance that leaves one dumbfounded.

Where we learn once again that the best way to free people from their tyrant is simply to eliminate the people altogether… no more people, no more tyrant. Q.E.D.

How much longer are we going to keep misnaming the problem? The Epstein case isn’t a “case” — it’s simply patriarchy. Are we finally going to put patriarchy on trial?

Is there a problem with trans girls in team sports?
Okay then, it’s very simple: from now on, every team is required to have a trans girl, otherwise they don’t get to play!

What do you mean there’s no longer a problem?

Frankly, I’m hesitating between absurdist humor, troll behavior, or a thought disorder with illogical associative thinking

and ?

I’m not sure I understand your point. Could you clarify what you mean?

It’s as if history, politics, and spiritual metaphors were being placed on the same level in order to produce a kind of rhetoric by suggestion.

Why would a religious discourse claiming that a society cannot survive without morality and divine law be seen as a political threat or a theocratic project?

I also don’t understand why tactical arrangements between religious groups and authoritarian regimes would prove any real affinity.

I don’t understand the transition from Andrea Dworkin’s idea that consent is socially conditioned in an unequal society to Heidegger

If we consider that the Gospels are antisemitic when they are referred to as the “New Testament,” and that their being put into writing represents a kyriarchal fixation enabling the shift toward an imperial religion, then yes, this is problematic.

I come from the generation that criticized the “-isms,” but that critique was aimed at disembodied, idealistic movements. The “ism” of feminism is not a formal doctrine or movement; it is the sum of suffering lived and carried across the duration of history

I distanced myself from Kristeva after my transition. I needed to grasp myself as an unstable subject,perhaps produced by norms, but capable of replaying and resignifying them.

perhaps even reinscribing woman as a form of radical alterity.

That said, I obviously admire her power to destabilize the symbolic. Yet by asserting that “woman” does not exist within the symbolic, she risks dissolving any possibility of a feminist political subject

Her vision of maternity, in particular, is troubling in that it excludes women who are not mothers.

Kristeva deserves a great deal of credit for having mobilized the semiotic as a subversive force. But for trans women, she remains problematic insofar as she continues to link subversion to a biological femininity.

That’s probably the reason!

Or that older people are responsible for the Social Security deficit? Never.

So please don’t turn it around on us. We are just a handful of human beings, with no impact on your medical care or your lives.

Have you ever heard us say: because of the number of cis women on estrogen for menopause, there isn’t enough estrogen left for us? Or that because so many people are having prostate or breast cancer surgery, there’s no room left for our gender-affirming surgeries?

au moins maintenant on est callé sur le personnage

a friend's graff on Freeman Alley

Ha ha, they were running too fast for my pointy boots, but that should be the parents' or the school's responsibility

I just got called a fat whore and told to suck my dick by a bunch of teenagers, it's been a while since that happened to me.