Why Is Queer Discourse so Toxic?
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Social media has broken LGBTQ discourse. Can we fix it?
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Rabbit holes:
Black Trans Archive https://blacktransarchive.com/
Tretter Transgender Oral History Project https://www.lib.umn.edu/collec....tions/special/trette
Queer Zine Archive Project https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Splash/Index
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Thanks to Maddie Harney for talking to me about the early queer internet. Her Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/lisaquestions
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Sources & further reading:
Washington Post article on gay bar closures https://www.washingtonpost.com..../dc-md-va/2021/12/10
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries zine, with several pieces by Sylvia Rivera https://transreads.org/wp-cont....ent/uploads/2019/03/
Stone Butch Blues PDF https://lesliefeinberg.net/wp-....content/uploads/2015
Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media https://nupress.northwestern.e....du/9780810143333/alg
The DSM-5 and depathologization https://www.thetaskforce.org/i....nvalidating-transgen
ICD-11 and depathologization https://tgeu.org/icd-11-depath....ologizes-trans-and-g
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Table of contents:
0:00 Why are we like this?
01:32 Awful
11:37 Atomized
16:57 Amnesic
26:38 Repair?
