Writer and Critic.

Co-host of Safe Room, a survival horror game club podcast, and @TIEReview, a journal of independent games criticism.


wires
@wires

Faggotization and the Extant Gender Ternary

Hello! I've just published my brief(ish) essay about my current working hypothesis about the Extant Gender Ternary ("there are only three genders!") and how it relates to the process of Faggotization / the policing of the Gender Subaltern Class.

I attempt to use a Marxist-Leninist framework applied to a materialist feminism to assess what the actual nature of gender which exists under the current gender regime is.

Please give it a read and a share/rechost, if you feel so inclined! I also welcome good faith comments, questions, and critiques. Please try to come into this essay with an open mind! I suspect that some of the things I say are going to be rather controversial, including to other transgender women, but I think that my analysis is both cogent and, hopefully, valuable.

[Also! The Substack link is accessible, and has a voice-over from yours truly for disabled audiences! Or if you just want to hear my pretty voice read my own writing lol.]

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in reply to @wires's post:

hello, i am still working through the piece, i hope this question is acceptable. your typology bears much resemblance to Kristeva's "subject/object/abject" ternary. have you encountered her work before? do you feel the comparison apt?

Hi! Thank you for your question! I'm going to be honest, I'm not really familiar with her work! But I appreciate the question, and I would certainly be intrigued to investigate further, especially if she articulates this differently or better than I do! Thank you so much for your comment :)

also what i think i appreciate most about this framework is that it acknowledges the dialectical process of identity formation and how an individual can deploy different tactics and strategies when it comes to gendering themselves- at cost to themselves, to others in potentially reinforcing the structure, or to disrupt it