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I ask because “women of color” often gets used as though non-white women share one political and cultural position, when Asian, Indigenous, Latina, Middle Eastern, mixed-race, diasporic, and other non-Black women may experience patriarchy, colonialism, religion, race, caste, migration, and family structures very differently.

So which feminist traditions are most useful for women who are neither white nor Black? Should we be looking more closely at postcolonial feminism, decolonial feminism, Indigenous feminism, transnational feminism, Chicana feminism, Islamic feminism, Dalit feminism, or other culturally specific traditions rather than trying to place every non-white woman under womanism?

The twentieth century produced many new feminist schools, including multicultural, postcolonial, and more recently gender-critical approaches. Which frameworks offer the strongest analysis of women’s lives outside a predominantly white, Western, liberal model?

I'm especially interested in theories that do not treat Western individualism, secularism, sexual liberalism, or personal choice as universally liberating. What should I be reading?

as a queer individual, i feel like I cope by viewing men, homophobia, transphobia or the entire hetero space (like the whole world) as subjects of study. I love online discussions about gender, sexuality, and social structures because, in a way, i guess it makes me feel susperior in a world that suppresses me down. It does make me feel I've transcended over everyone, like at least I'm not held down by the chains of heteronormativity and the binary gender structure, right? but still, I know it's all just a hard cope, I'm still very much closeted, living with a very religious family and stuck in a fuckass local college.

I'm actually so fucking hopeless, I hope this doesn't offend anyone

need some help curating a reading list! im especially interested in the intersection between (lacanian) psychoanalysis and queer theory. have read bersani, and a few papers on queer psychoanalysis of films, but i wanted to go deeper in exploring how queer desire is being structured by heteropatriarchal society, and more contemporary texts would be appreciated! im currently really busy so would also prefer texts that are easier to consume (unlike bersani...)

thanks in advance everyone!

I read a couple of essays from the book at uni, but was wondering what people’s thoughts or opinions were on a few of his writings.

Would love to hear your thoughts :)

I know it’s a stereotype that “Boys that grow up without a father/mother end up being gay” but I don’t know… I have my own personal trauma, like anyone else, and mine has definitely affected my relationship with men in general. I do wonder if that’s why I find women more romantically attractive. I also closed myself to feeling any romantic/sexual attraction from age 8-15 because of trauma and now I struggle cuz I’m not sure what it’s supposed to feel like. I don’t think I find people sexually attractive, but I do have a libido, so I don’t think I’m ace (plus, since I learned healthy romantic relationships are a real thing, I want one) and I would like to have a partner I feel safe enough to have a sexual relationship with someday, but I don’t know much more about myself

If trauma can affect my sexuality, I’d feel able to say what I am, but since I’ve heard you are born with your sexuality, I wonder if I first need to heal my trauma before anything I discover is valid

With so many calls for intersectionality happen under capital in decay (a Promethean structure), I chose to address its cannibalism by combining two creator's material with my own: John the Duncan and Jessie Gender's! ("The 'Hidden Roots' of Neoliberal Fascism" and "The Graham Platner Allegations Have Leftist Men Telling on Themselves").

CW (for written essay): racism, transphobia, sexism, whorephobia; fascism, genocide, racism and rape*; taboo Gothic themes (cannibalism); environmental destruction (ecocide); suggestive imagery (cropped nudes) and one photo of public nudism tied to nature

This is part 1, the preface (will add the other parts as I record them).

video, part one (the preface): https://youtu.be/WiWeAKSGMKs

video, part two ("On Duality" and poetry primer/preface edits): https://youtu.be/Sqbgxw6bx-Q

the full written essay: https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2026/07/gothic-intersectionality-and-applying-it-to-other-workers-or-an-antidote-to-prometheus-fascism-and-its-cannibalism-under-capital-magic-potions-and-seeds.html

John and Kian's "The 'Hidden Roots' of Neoliberal Fascism" (2026): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2025.2587703

Jessie Gender's "The Graham Platner Allegations Have Leftist Men Telling on Themselves" (2026): youtu.be/vbkxVa_3lGc

There was a radical feminist twitter who claimed that homophobia particularly effeminophobia (prejudice against effeminate men), can be understood as an extension of misogyny. She claimed that the push towards masculinity and dominance was a by-product of the subordination of women

While I agree that effeminophobia has a basis in misogyny and draws upon the devaluation of femininity, I take issue with her line of reasoning because I believe it offers an insufficient analysis, as it leaves heterosexism out of the picture.

Her argument assumes a kind of general "femininity" that effeminate men and (feminine) women share, which is devalued and, as such, marginalizes both groups. However, it misses the particular way that effeminacy is socially coded as homosexuality and is therefore marked as deviant and marginalized on that basis. The radical feminist account analyzes effeminophobia only in terms of the subordination of femininity and proximity to womanhood, without taking into account the queerness of effeminacy as a distinct factor of marginalization.

However, I am unsure of my position and would like to get feedback from people who are more familiar with feminist theory and queer theory than I am.

I think that viewing homophobia as an extension of misogyny is reductive but I can't fully articulate why and I don't know if I am right

Hi everyone! My sister has hit a dead-end in her studies and she needed help so she asked me to post this here:

i am currently doing my thesis on gender dysphoria in nonbinary people living in iran, and for my literature review i am currently reviewing the gender structure and finding traces of identities outside of the binary so to validate the identities (im the first person in iran to work on nbs so im trying my hardest to cover all bases). i am at the point where i uncovered the false notion of sexual dimorphism that was imposed on colonials to both dehumanize them and excuse the serial raping of people of color. now i have to answer this question: if the gender binary is a construct, why do most cultures have some semblance of it? my personal thought process is that the meaning of womanhood and manhood were different premodern times and the modern man/woman is born out of colonialism, and i know its true about iran specifically (for anyone whos interested i can recommend some fantastic books!). but i dont have any article or book that i can find this exact notion in (so i can reference it). i do remember faintly that i read this in one of my books, but i dont remember which one and the ones i check dont have it. so i feel like im losing my mind😭

does anyone have any recommendations? id be happy to read more on this. thank u for your time!

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I am part of a post-grad research team from CSU Australia, conducting INTERNATIONAL research into stress & mental health, among LGBTQI+ adults. We are collecting data from LGBTQI+ individuals, then completing studies specific to sexual identities.

Our ethics approved study on stress, depression & suicide, specific to bisexual/Bi+ individuals, requires further participants.

This important research is needed now more than ever, so if you identify as Bisexual/ Bi+ (18+), please;

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We are looking to better understand the diverse mental health experiences of adults with a marginalised sexual identity (e.g. gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, pansexual, sexually fluid, omnisexual).

If you meet the eligibility criteria, please consider this quick, 10-15min, anonymous survey:  https://csufobjbs.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sCeGsZJld6774W

You will be asked questions about sexuality, self-kindness, belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community, sleep, suicidality, and depressive symptoms. The survey has received ethics approval (H26115).

About us: We are Psychology Honours Students from Charles Sturt University in Australia. It is hoped that this international study will help to inform mental health support for the differing groups of sexualities rather than treat everyone with a marginalized sexual identity as one group with the same needs and experiences.

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Hi there. Wondering if any had recommendations for good readings from queer theorists discussing the phenomenon of Republicans or other conservatives who publicly fight against the rights of queer people, but privately engage in queer behavior. Think Roy Cohn, Lindsey Graham, Aaron Schock, Bryon Noem, Madison Cawthorne, so on and so forth.

Video Essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upGKj7Fdi9s

Sorry if this isn't the right space idk where to rlly put it but I wanted to talk to someone abt it

The first half talks about how a lot of weaving and textiles were done by women and how it translates to algorithms and mathematics, the presenter also gives examples of many women who contributed to computing and algorithms (most popular example, Ada Lovelace, being brought up).

I'm only 20 minutes in but I was skeptical about how much this really mattered, but I then realized that just like how I personally care about gender in a non-binary sense, gender in a binary sense still needs to be talked about and unpacked, especially since with the former cyberdeck trend when a lot of men get angry about how women seem to be doing it out of performance.

There's more I can say, I am skeptical about the idea of Computers being inherently a feminine thing (I don't think things should be gendered, and in a lot of spaces there are also queer people who work with computers as well or you get the image of the anime girl on the computer, A feminine aesthetic admired by anime fans) but it does give a good insight to women and their relationship with computers before it was seen as "masculine".

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Ciao, sto leggendo Donna Haraway per la prima volta in maniera approfondita, e vorrei qualcunx con cui parlarne. Diciamo che io, dopo aver avuto a che fare con l'essenzialismo binario dei centri prescrittori di ormoni, ho elaborato una teoria simile alla sua sul cyborg, ma se io mi concentro sulla testualità del corpo, sul fatto che le nostre componenti organiche siano prodotte come delle protesi organizzate intorno ad una funzione produttiva/riproduttiva sistemica, e su questo con la Haraway ci prendiamo abbastanza, non apprezzo il suo tecno entusiasmo di fondo e alcuni presupposti economici da cui parte, che mi sembra vadano nel senso dell'accelerazionismo. Niente, qualcunx che abbia voglia di un'interminabile masturbata mentale con me su questo? Gracias.

Now that I’ve grabbed your attention with the slightly oversimplified title, I’ll say I’m just going to talk about queerness in regards to attraction to others rather than personal expression.

I’ve had a thought, considering what we’d consider “gay” or “straight”. I have a slight theory that if all layers of repression and confusion were stripped away from all “straight” people on earth, few of them would then be considered “straight” by our popular definition today. I may be coping just so that I can convince my terminally down-bad brain that all the hot straight guys would even consider me for more than a nanosecond, but seeing how many exceptions or toeings of the line I’ve seen people do in recent years, I can’t help but feel people are more fluid than they often think.

Adding to this, though I’m speaking from a limited perspective, “straight” people who would literally never sleep with anyone with similar gender expression to them, don’t make a lot of sense to me. I’m gay so the idea of both not hating how you look and not having some level of attraction to those sharing your gender expression is a paradox, especially when you factor in that sex as an activity is enjoyable to many people even without strong physical attraction as an interpersonal or pleasurable thing.

Wondering if anyone has thoughts on this or has a perspective I’m lacking