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alyaza [they/she]

‘Hot Girls with Balls’ is deliciously, painfully online

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beehaw.org‘Hot Girls with Balls’ is deliciously, painfully online - Beehaw> Midway through Benedict Nguyễn’s propulsive trans volleyball novel, Hot Girls with Balls, Six, one of the book’s two heroines, struggles with mounting nerves as she prepares to play an important match. She is less worried about the actual gameplay than she is about the performance of her public persona, which she knows will be screencapped, shared and dissected by fans and haters alike: “For what sports arena was not also a theatre?” > > Six and Green are the larger-than-life protagonists of Nguyễn’s dizzying satire. The two are both “very hot” Asian American trans women who play in a fictional men’s global volleyball league; they work tirelessly, not just in their volleyball training sessions, but also to curate and maintain their social media star status. Six and Green, who are also very publicly dating each other, are as canny and self-aware as they are hot—they know that their athletic careers depend just as much on their ability to bring in brand deals by amassing more and more followers, as on their prowess on the volleyball court. Hot Girls with Balls brims with charisma, envy, sabotage and taut, taut muscles. You don’t have to be a sports fan to be utterly compelled by Nguyễn’s vision—and to become just as obsessed with Six and Green as their fictional followers are. > > Nguyễn’s knack for recreating the chaotic, hate-it-but-can’t-look-away nature of online discourse makes this, her debut novel, a text in perpetual motion. She is an athlete herself—a dancer and self-professed gym buff—and writes as deftly about the stresses, training regimens and team choreography of competitive sports as she does about the micro-details of being trans in the public eye. Hot Girls with Balls is an expertly structured text, its central narrative arc intercut and propelled by scrolls of livestream and forum comments from Six’s and Green’s supporters and enemies. Reading it is a dizzying experience, as overwhelming as scrolling through a constantly updating online comment section, while straining to follow the various polarized arguments that are being thrown around. Six and Green have taken the sports world by storm, showing volleyball fans that the game “wasn’t just balls but endless unspoken feeling filtering back and forth across the net.” Nguyễn crafts a text that mimics this emotional back-and-forth—the novel darts between the perspectives of our two star players as they train for a major tournament; curate their online personas; publicly manage their romantic relationship; navigate brand deals, media appearances, blatant transphobia, obsessive adulation and the pitfalls of solidarity and visibility discourse.
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LassCalibur

Two new documentaries highlight trans history

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beehaw.orgTwo new documentaries highlight trans history - Beehaw>One of the most telling things about queer history is that so much of it has to be gleaned by reading between the lines. >There are the obvious tentpoles: the activism, the politics, the names and accomplishments of key cultural heroes. Without the stories of lived experience behind them, however, these things are mere information; to connect with these facts on a personal level requires relatable everyday detail — and for most of our past, such things could only be discussed in secret. >In recent decades, thanks to increased societal acceptance, there’s been a new sense of academic “legitimacy” bestowed upon the scholarship of queer history, and much has been illuminated that was once kept in the dark. The once-repressed expressions of our queer ancestors now allow us to see our reflections staring back at us through the centuries, and connect us to them in a way that feels personal. >One of the most effective formats for building that connection, naturally enough, is documentary filmmaking — an assertion illustrated by two new docs, each focused on figures whose lives are intertwined with the evolution of modern trans culture. Viewer discretion is advised, both companies are subject to calls for a queercott, and HBO/Max is engaging in wizardry.
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The_Internationalist

Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz sagt der Deutsche Bundestag sei kein Zirkuszelt auf dem man beliebig Flaggen hisst.

Die SPD, offenbar um Wählerstimmen der politisch Korrekten besorgt, hält dagegen und hält die Wortwahl für bedenklich.

Nun mag der CSD streng genommen kein Zirkus sein aber der Nicht-Haarspaltende Normalbürger weiss was gemeint ist. Es ist letzten Endes ein Umzug, ein privates, nicht-staatliches Strassenfest. Wenn wir damit anfangen für alles Flaggen auf dem Bundestag zu hissen können wir demnächst auch eine zu Karneval auf's Dach setzen. Und warum nicht zu Ostern die des Vatikans in Ermangelung expliziter katholischer und evangelisch protestantischer Flaggen. Oder die des Staates Israel und zu Weihnachten eine mit dem Weihnachtsmann. Entschuldigung, es heisst jetzt Weihnachtsfest oder, noch korrekter, Winterfest, damit sich kein Glaube und keine Ethnie ausgeschlossen fühlt.
Im übrigen sind die weltweit verfolgteste Gruppe der Minderheiten Christen, auch wenn man das im Europa der Erleuchtung nicht so mitbekommt weil Menschen mit christlich-kulturellem Hintergrund hier immer noch die Mehrheit stellen.
Es gibt bereits einen Tag gegen Homophobie zur Erinnerung an die Opfer der Verfolgung im dritten Reich an dem die Regenbogenflagge gehisst wird, aber damit nicht genug, die CSD-Lobby will noch einen zweiten. Dies ist was passiert wenn man lautstarken Minderheiten nachgibt.

n-tv.de/politik/Merz-zu-Debatt

n-tv.de/politik/Der-CSD-ist-ke

n-tv NACHRICHTEN · Umstrittener Klöckner-Beschluss: Merz zu Debatte um Regenbogen-Fahne: "Bundestag ist kein Zirkuszelt"By n-tv NACHRICHTEN
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Piiieps & Brummm

@satanismusheute @skeptator
Mein "Erweckungserlebnis", um #lgbtq_plus für mich voll und ganz zu akzeptieren, war, als ich erfahren habe, dass männliche Clownfische bei Mangel an Weibchen eben zu Weibchen werden.

WTF!? Ein Wirbeltier ändert sein Geschlecht!?

Dann gab es vor Monaten noch einen wunderbaren Thread eine*r Biolog*in (leider vergessen wer) über chromosonales, hormonelles, soziales und emotionales Geschlecht. Grandios!

Jetzt: Überzeugter #Ally

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alyaza [they/she]

With their rights in peril, LGBTQ+ comedians are using humor to dilute fear

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beehaw.orgWith their rights in peril, LGBTQ+ comedians are using humor to dilute fear - Beehaw> Esther Fallick wants her comedy to be an escape from the horrors. But that escape has a purpose: to make it easier to face these times for what they are. By poking fun at something that can feel so heavy, like the president pitting his administration against transgender people, Fallick wants to find ways to bring people together and laugh off the darkness creeping in on everyday life. > > “We could be having a little more fun as a community, as a country. I just feel like so much of what we’re talking about as trans people right now is so dire. There’s reason for that, but I just wanted a space to be intentionally silly,” she said. Intentions aside, she still spent the first episode of her podcast — aptly titled, “Having Fun” — joking about fleeing anti-trans violence in America with fellow comedian Ella Yurman. The gallows humor is inescapable. > > Her weekly variety show in Brooklyn, titled “While We’re Here,” is also a dark joke: We’re only here, alive and on this planet, for so long. And life is only getting harder. So what should we do in the meantime? Fallick suggests laughter, to start, followed by music, reading and teach-ins on topics ranging from transmisogyny — how trans women are hurt by both misogyny and transphobia — to demilitarizing New York City’s police force, especially in Brooklyn.
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