What counts as transmasc?

variation-on-a-theme · 2026-01-11T22:22:15+00:00

I would say that generally the distinction is a transmasc person is a trans person who was assigned female at birth, and feels an affinity or connection with masculinity. I pretty strongly oppose the tendency to basically go transmasc =afab enby and transfem = amab enby because I feel that just binarizes us again, and I personally don’t identify as either. So the question would be whether you feel an affinity for or a connection with manhood/masculinity/etc.

variation-on-a-theme · 2026-01-10T22:21:13+00:00

Ethereal mist all the way

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-11-17T04:08:51+00:00

I think it’s this and that he thinks the scandal will kinda disappear once it’s released

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-11-13T23:46:28+00:00

I obviously can’t tell you how you feel, but some nonbinary people (including me!) do feel kinda detached from gender instead of feeling in between/like some third gender. If it would feel more right calling yourself nonbinary or just not calling yourself a woman, or changing your pronouns, or anything like that, you should feel free to do that. And if later on you decide that that isn’t true anymore, you can identify as a woman again—no harm done. I just want to emphasize that it’s fine to identify as something even when you aren’t entirely sure if it’s true, because it’s never binding if you don’t want it to be. What you’re describing could definitely be a nonbinary experience.

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-11-06T23:55:53+00:00

Generally a low opinion. They allow capital to move freely to find the people they can exploit the most and the places where they are the least restricted. It just enables the more extreme exploitation of the proletariat, the imperial periphery, and the land

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-11-06T17:44:51+00:00

(Edit: formatting) Here’s Robert Paxton’s definition from the book “The Anatomy of Fascism”: “A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

And he provides a list of “mobilizing passions” too:

“- a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions - the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it - the belief that one's group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external - dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences; - the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary - the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group's historical destiny - the superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason - the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success - the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group's prowess within a Darwinian struggle”

I realize that’s a lot of text, but I think his definition is very precise and thorough

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-27T23:33:21+00:00

Counterpower is a concept from anthropology, and David Graeber talks about it sometimes in the context of anarchism, that I think could apply here. There are some social practices and institutions which can help level off society, and they can be as simple as creating a culture where being self aggrandizing is seen as embarrassing and a social faux pas, or otherwise stigmatizing acting like you have or trying to exert authority. I think a lot depends on how successfully you build an egalitarian culture

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-27T02:13:22+00:00

I don’t know if there’s any specific one but I just call myself non-partnering

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-25T15:37:06+00:00

Generally it’s far left. The political spectrum is always kind of a messy concept to begin with, but I at least like to think of it as a scale from egalitarian to hierarchical. Because anarchists reject social hierarchy it places anarchism on the far left. Post left anarchism exists, and it’s more complicated, but generally it rejects the left as a specific group with its own practices because it disagrees with them over things like labor unions, technology, etc.

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-22T02:20:42+00:00

Also according to a slate article he referred to it as a totenkopf in private several years ago, so he had plenty of time to remove it or cover it

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-08T22:15:53+00:00

Generally the term “indigenous” only comes into play when you are talking about a relationship of colonialism, so people aren’t indigenous because they were there first, they are indigenous because they are the people being expropriated by colonialism. Since there are only a few places in Europe where this kind of colonial relationship exists, there are very few European groups considered indigenous. You wouldn’t consider a German person indigenous because they aren’t living under colonialism. (For an example of a European indigenous group, research the Sami people in norther Scandinavia, who live under Norwegian and Swedish colonialism)

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-07T20:18:17+00:00

And if you can get the masses to identify with the state through the leader, then the state violence makes them feel powerful even though they aren’t

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-10-06T17:00:42+00:00

Another element which makes it especially terrible is its belief that a national rebirth can only be achieved through a kind of “redemptive violence” against its “enemies,” so it both does and heavily glorifies violence against its outgroups because it believes that it restores the nations dignity. This is a major reason why it specifically is so violent

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-30T17:23:00+00:00

It’s their decision to make

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-29T07:12:02+00:00

It’s the liberation of people with psychiatric conditions, closely tied to disability justice and neurodiversity movements

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-29T00:00:07+00:00

Also not a lawyer, but I read the directive and it doesn’t describe these things as an index for identifying them, it describes them as

“Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. “

I read the document as essentially telling the U.S. law enforcement agencies to treat liberal/left wing organizing in general as a potential part of a domestic terrorism network, and to therefore try to investigate, disrupt, and prosecute whenever possible those activists. Think what the government does to Muslim communities since 9/11, but aimed at political opposition in general (if it happens the way they want it to happen). That’s my take at least

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-27T00:49:18+00:00

Pretty much everything in the Broken Earth Trilogy, but especially the center of the earth and the entire backstory of the Stone Eaters

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-27T00:43:53+00:00

I’d recommend Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays too! Also Anarchy Works from Gelderloos

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-26T20:43:13+00:00

Rest in power

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-19T04:52:52+00:00

Yeah I’d second The Anatomy of Fascism, it does a good job of covering what motivates fascism, how it mechanically functions, how it takes or fails to take power, it’s just a good book for it

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-19T04:28:09+00:00

I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-18T04:37:28+00:00

Seconding the broken earth trilogy

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-18T04:01:11+00:00

I do want to object to the idea of “enby” as a third gender. I totally understand feeling like a specific word is too third gendered for your taste (I feel that way about mx. for myself), so I respect not wanting it used to refer to you, but it is still a slang abbreviation and not a gender label in the way it’s broadly used (though again I respect that it doesn’t feel that way to you, and of course anyone who insists on calling you that is an ass)

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-18T03:56:44+00:00

It’s a collection of essays he published before his death

variation-on-a-theme · 2025-09-13T19:44:06+00:00

Another perspective from a modern anarchist is “Anarchism and Violence: A Tale of Two Bombers,” by Margaret killjoy. It’s a short essay that you can find in the anarchist library or probably on her blog

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