lash of too many white women involved. cis people are unwelcome in actions geared toward trans-rights because they are cis. men are shamed from participating in feminist actions. HOW IS THIS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM?
i get the jaded feelings about having to show someone how life is affecting you when it seems they should already know, but the cold-hard-fact is most people have no idea what it is like to be in your intersection of different. the truth is most white people believe the cosby show is the true representation of black life, most straight people believe that will & grace shows what it is like to be a gay man in the united states and most children are never taught the true story of the native slaughters, the treaties, the lies...i am not saying that the ignorance is acceptable-as a matter of fact it is unacceptable and part of the problem, but if we are not willing to teach the truth how in the hell can we expect people to know it?
are we wanting to strip the power from those that have it to redecorate that position or do we actually want to break down the power system that creates the us and thems? if we want the latter we must get over the idea of interlopers or the power structure just changes form, not function.
"Without changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals and gays (the list, in fact, is considerable) — society will be riddled by domination even in a socialistic 'classless' and 'non-exploitative' form. It would be infused by hierarchy even as it celebrated the dubious virtues of 'people's democracies,' 'socialism' and the 'public ownership' of 'natural resources.' And as long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction."
- Murray Bookchin Toward an Ecological Society (1980).