Author Archives: maxattitude
Dudes and sexual violence, Part 2 « The Filing Cabinet
I wrote some stuff here, but mostly Meg has some great insights, thoughts, questions. When we each stop procrastinating from our PhDs, actually hand in the work we have due, and take a break, I hope we write more about this together. I think it would be really super if DUDE had an issue on sexual violence at some point in the future. There’s so much to say, to ask, to interrogate… Continue reading
Filed under "Queer Culture", Ask Max, Feminist Politics, Re-post
Not Man Enough for FTM Australia
Seriously? I’ve been dealing with so many cool people and reading so much about how feminists aren’t transphobic and transsexuals don’t rival transgender people, I’m caught off guard by their narrow mindedness. As my dear friend Gauche Sinister put it:
that’s so fucked!!! i can’t believe an ftm website has a more rigid
and narrow definition of ftm than your horrible psychologist. Continue reading
Filed under "Queer Culture", Feminist Politics, Gauche Sinister, Max Attitude, Re-post
You can do it!
check out my interview with Art about acquiring surgery not testosterone on DUDE 2 EXTENDED: You can do it!
Filed under "Queer Culture", Fashion, Feminist Politics, Law, Max Attitude, Policy, Re-post
Pronouns can be awkward
I like to think I don’t care which pronouns people use. But…I do. I guess I just like to be open about which pronouns people use because I don’t like stability, or being boxed in to something rigid. But the thing that disconcerts me is the reasons people use she/her/hers pronouns for me. Because if it’s just that they decide I am “female-bodied” – that’s not really cool. It’s true that I use and prefer he/him/his pronouns. And that my friends use them to describe me. But I do want to be cool with people using feminine pronouns. Continue reading
Filed under "Queer Culture", Ask Max, Feminist Politics, Max Attitude
Pronoun Etiquette
By Dean Spade People often wonder how to be polite when it comes to problems of misidentifying another person’s pronoun. Here are some general tips: If you make a mistake, correct yourself. Going on as if it did not happen … Continue reading
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Worst Film Ever.
Or, TAKEN: 93 minutes of my life. As we get ever closer to the release of Twilight saga movie number 4, and as more films are remade barely after their initial release (‘Let The Right One In’ (2008), ‘Let Me … Continue reading
Filed under Feminist Politics, Screen, What's Queer Here?
Born This Way?
The recent “Born This Way” episode of Glee, featuring Lady Gaga’s latest single of the same name, draws attention to the posited-as-postmodern fixation on so-called body modifications. The episode revolves around self-acceptance and, for the most part, asserts acceptance in opposition to body alterations via plastic surgery. That is, the fairly conservative view that plastic surgery is bad, and self-acceptance is good. That is, it positions problems of self-esteem as individual and suggests they are to be conquered via changes to thinking, while plastic surgery is presented as self-hating and conformist. Continue reading
Filed under Feminist Politics, Max Attitude, Screen, What's Queer Here?
Transitioning
Some recommended reading on ftm transitioning Continue reading
Filed under Ask Max, Literature, Max Attitude
In conversation
I don’t think subversiveness in itself, even if it is achieved, is inherently valuable. In order to be a valuable form of alternative culture/activism I think it needs not only to be subversive (going against the norm) but cause no harm, and ideally even to have some benefit (beyond a possible/probable immediate personal gain).
The point is: I think in this case, as in most others, it’s more a question of the impact of a subversive action. And I do think that altering one’s physical sex characteristics is subversive. It definitely goes against the grain, it upends normative notions of permanence and inherent hierarchy based on sex. Continue reading
Filed under "Art", "Queer Culture", Interview, Max Attitude, Re-post, Uncategorized
“That’s called coercion”
Even the title “Eclipse” can be seen as a veiled reference to coercion; meaning figuratively ‘loss of power or significance’ or, as a verb, ‘to deprive.’ This idea of deprivation makes little sense to the plot: the conflict surrounding Bella’s transformation into a vampire (being deprived of her human life) is deferred to the following installment (Breaking Dawn), and the deprivation that makes up Edward and Bella’s sex life is a constant theme in the entire series. Rather, the main plot thrust of Eclipse is a territorial one… Continue reading
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