tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post1656362318117257920..comments2023-09-26T10:11:12.865-04:00Comments on My Feet Only Walk Forward: Transphobic and Racially ConfusedBrandon Lacy Camposhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17309078871229264081noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-16761018312248337702011-01-11T19:25:51.831-05:002011-01-11T19:25:51.831-05:00Thanks my friends!
@NYABN I am not giving her an...Thanks my friends! <br /><br />@NYABN I am not giving her any real credence, but I felt as an ally that I needed to say something, particularly as she made a target out of Audre Lorde (as a person) and ALP as an organization. I appreciate, deeply, your solidarity!<br /><br />xoxo,<br />brandon<br /><br />PS @Thomas I am! As of last October!Brandon Lacy Camposhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17309078871229264081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-2800140895807904992011-01-11T18:04:01.056-05:002011-01-11T18:04:01.056-05:00Hey Brandon,
I reworked my comment a little bit, ...Hey Brandon,<br /><br />I reworked my comment a little bit, and here it is in my latest blog post.<br /><br />http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2011/01/response-to-transphobic-and-racially.html<br /><br />I hope this finds you well.<br /><br />JulianJulian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-38871840013960142672011-01-11T17:29:53.544-05:002011-01-11T17:29:53.544-05:00Part 2 of 2:
I identify as queer, intergender, an...Part 2 of 2:<br /><br />I identify as queer, intergender, and gay, and welcome anyone using any of those terms for me. Audre identified, as far as I know, as a gay-girl earlier in her life, and later as explicitly lesbian and feminist.<br /><br />Across class and race, and especially in the last fifteen to twenty years, there has been an effort to invisibilise lesbians of color in the media and beyond, as such. Does that concern you as a queer male who respects Audre's work? Do you find it male supremacist of you to not only tell a woman to shut up and to remain silent but also to refer to her as "sweetness", and to psychologise her anger? All of that comes across as misogynistically disrespectful to me. In what ways are you not treating her the way men, across race, typically treat women, across race? Do you believe your work with women of color entitles you to be misogynistic to white women?<br /><br />I am supportive of many projects, including the Audre Lorde Project, and also the work of Aishah Simmons and Tiona McClodden, in particular, to support visibility of Black lesbians.<br /><br />Audre Lorde was lesbian-identified. As someone within the trans community, isn't our politic one of respecting how we name ourselves rather crucial to establishing supportive community? <br /><br />It is my experience that the more privileges one has--particularly if male and/or white, the more structurally and institutionally entitled it appears one is to demand to be named as one sees fit. Few Black women I know have the option or the structural entitlement to be named by society as they wish to be named--or even to be seen as fully human. Men and whites are always at the ready to put Black women of any sexuality in the boxes they wish to see them in. <br /><br />I posted on this issue as well, and welcome your comment-response to my blog, as well as permission to cross-post your reply here to my blog. Here is the link:<br /><br />http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2011/01/beyond-double-standards-audre-lorde.html<br /><br />I welcome healing, respectful, productive, constructive engagement. I find that with venues like Facebook and other Internet meeting places, including blogs, the level of mutual respect and regard across difference has deteriorated substantially. I hope our exchange can not call for either of us to be silent, but rather to speak to one another with respect, across difference.<br /><br />I hope your efforts with TALP are going well and looking financially healthy through 2011.Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-57928923165840930612011-01-11T17:29:24.378-05:002011-01-11T17:29:24.378-05:00Hi Brandon,
(I think this'll be a two-parter,...Hi Brandon,<br /><br />(I think this'll be a two-parter, knowing blogger.)<br /><br />Thank you for your response. I am personally troubled by white folks--male, female, or intersex, trans or cis, thinking they/we have the right to get up in faces of people of color about matters which they know little to nothing about and attempt to gain white supremacist control of every exchange or conflict.<br /><br />I am similarly troubled by males and men across race attempting to silence women of any race, which is partly what I experience you doing above. I don't believe your male privilege, power, and entitlements, including the privilege, power, and entitlement to tell women to shut up and never speak again to an issue of lesbian visibility, goes away just because you're queer and of color. Nor does mine. I'm white, male, Jewish, intergender, gay, and disabled. I cross places of privilege and oppression, as do you.<br /><br />It was upsetting to me to see Audre, who I've met and exchanged correspondence with, who fought very hard, as any of her friends know, to identify as *lesbian*, to have her termed something other than what she termed herself. I don't believe Barbara Smith or anyone else speaks for Audre Lorde, and am troubled by the way you disregard a white woman who was speaking to the issue of not invisibilising lesbianism, which is a woman's issue across race, which in my experience queer males have had a hand in dismissing and disrespecting for decades, including by refusing to engage responsibly and respectfully with radical lesbian activists and writers of all colors. Audre Lorde was radical, lesbian, and feminist. How many men do you know who put aside their male privileges to engage with the work of feminists and womanists? I can count on one hand the number of men I know.<br /><br />What I am unclear on is this: why would you or anyone else seek to deny her her lesbian identity, and instead put that under a larger banner of "queer"?Julian Realhttp://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-27833850095014256672011-01-11T17:21:19.277-05:002011-01-11T17:21:19.277-05:00Dude! You're an ALP board member? That's t...Dude! You're an ALP board member? That's totally awesome. It fits though, they've really got their heads on straight relative to the "mainstream" GLBT organizations on a whole array of issues. They are a grassroots organization that has my total respect.<br /><br />P.S. The CAPCHA for this posting that came up was "trandia"? How cool is that? :)Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089163773613963793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1813774273050712407.post-50924352954439184462011-01-11T16:51:24.774-05:002011-01-11T16:51:24.774-05:00We just wanted to offer some support and sympathy ...We just wanted to offer some support and sympathy here. <br /><br />Dirtywhiteboi is a well know troll-ish figure on the internet and is kind of like low-rent US version of the UK's Julie Bindel. Both Bindel and Dirt are proponents of the Lesbian/Gay "purity" movement and like the rest of that crowd they spend a lot of time obsessively policing what they see as the borders of gender and sexual identity, harassing all queer-identified people who don't measure up their own deluded standards. Naturally bisexual, fluid, pansexual and other non "gold-star" queer-identified people are along with trans/gender-variant people are tops on their hateful hit parade so we have also been their targets. <br /><br />The Audre Lorde Project is well know and well respected among the vast majority of people in the LGBT/Queer community especially in the greater NYC area, so please do not let these fringe nuts prey on your mind too much. Remember, you all actually Contribute to the greater good, while all they and their crowd know how to do is whine, snark, snap, complain and try to tear good people down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com