i have a couple of reading suggestions for any readers out there:
Is Gender Necessary?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-is-gender-necessary-redux
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am man? A couple of thoughts on what makes me a man.
#Sex #Gender #Woman #Man #Female #Male #Feminine #Masculine #Trans #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
"Early in development when we are still in the womb, very little about us is “determined.” Indeed, the structures that become our reproductive system start out as multi-potential, capable of taking on many possible forms. A neutral structure called the germinal ridge, for example, can develop into ovaries or testes—the structures that produce reproductive cells and sex hormones—or sometimes into something in between, depending on the molecular signals it receives.
Our #genes influence this process, of course. But so do interactions among cells, molecules in our body, including hormones, and influences from the outside world."
Matt @MattCartoonist on #KeirStarmer #SupremeCourt #Gender @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Ein Video für eure Eltern und Großeltern und für alle, die ihr zurückgelassen habt, als ihr in die große Stadt gezogen seid.
"Warum muss heute alles queer sein?" [YouTube, 7:25]
The idea that the government gets to assign our gender, that they have a right to invasive inspections of our bodies or our children’s bodies if we don’t conform to their narrow definitions, is so horrific that I am shocked that more people aren’t in the streets screaming about this fascist nightmare. #Gender #Trans #Feminism #Fascism
They talk about safety, truth, authenticity. About legally defining who can be considered a woman. About deciding who has the right to enter a bathroom, a shelter, a changing room.
But — funny thing — no one is debating who can enter as a man.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/controlling-women-the-tradition-that-never-dies-6752b62bcced
#PennedPossibilities 652 — Do you ever use cliffhangers at narrative breaks and / or chapter endings?
Most of my chapters end with a cliffhanger or mystery of varying intensity. When I write something that feels like either, it's the truest indicator that the chapter is complete, and it's time to start another. However, I recognize the need for a cooldown period every so often, and throw in a slice-of-life chapter—the calm before the storm—or a handkerchief wringer where I calmly milk the emotional angst the narrative has built up.
A.K.A. and D.B.A. a "page turner."
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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IDK I but IMO a make up room sounds like some woke gender afferming care. Paid for with taxpayers money.
#gender #genderafferming
#cisgender #woke
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.22 — Earth Day! Who’s your most traveled character? Your least traveled?
The main Reluctance Series antagonist has probably been everywhere in the world and been most every profession, with mother having been her most repeated job. Immortality and always being 24 has its up and down sides.
Wintereyes has traveled all over the Fell Forest with the wolf pack that adopted her, but it's still a just a forest despite the size of the territory. Her parents' farm is just outside its border. Now that she's earned magical fame for befriending a wyvern (and arbitrating a dispute between a farmer, a sneezy so-called red dragon, and an exploded grain silo that had undergone undiscovered fermentation), she now attends a university in a Township—but she's two shy to explore the place because, well, all the people.
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSstory #RSInklingsStory #RSReluctanceStory
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.23 — World Book Day! Share a prompt or the first few lines of a story you wish you could read.
I hate that I can't write this steampunk story of redemption and betrayal myself. It requires expertise in how the military works, and the navy specifically. Have at it. I'd consider a collaboration.
She's horribly scarred and people can't bear to look at her, but she was the 1st in her class at the academy. A midshipman now an ensign is passed over for further promotions is given notice of discharge after her putting in her four years, despite serving as the crown's chief siege strategist. She's been called inhuman within earshot often enough that she doesn't believe she deserves recognition or friends, let alone the love she's read men in her position could find as misunderstood or looking piratical. She's planned to roam the world as an ascetic, planing sieges of cities she'll visit for the fun of it. As a final insult, she's given a last minute first command that delays the start of her new life, given a museum piece airship frigate—with a motley crew of screwups and green cadets along with a drunkard former top gun XO—that would fail to fight any engagement, given a mission that requires only the presence of a warship in the sky and zero prowess. All fine and good until the capital city she's "guarding" really does come under attack and hers is the only ship available.
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#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #military
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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@Qldaah
What f**g caviat? It’s par for the course for the #ADF regardless of #gender, towit, an individual must be able to perform their assigned tasks, period. This #LNP dude is an idiot (like the rest of them). You’d expect better from an ex-serviceman, obviously he is not performing his alloted task to the high standard he demands from serving women. What a joke.
Having got that off my chest, let me just add that the standard demanded by the ADF is critically linked to the training provided. Spend all your budget on fancy weapons and you’ll skimp on the training required. As it is, ADF members are not remunerated sufficiently to attract the numbers we need to man the platforms we already have in service. Live rounds are expensive and training takes a lot of our weapon systems all of which cost a bucket. You don’t need to be a hawk to see that the #Defence budget is totally inadequate for the ‘job’ it is tasked to look after. /end_rant
#WordWeavers 2504.23 — Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits?
My themes are pretty much the same from story to story: feminist with a dose of gender politics. Regardless, they do arise from my writing because I don't know the plot until I write it, and I definitely tweak the theme during revision. Thus, my answer is Yes.
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#WordWeavers 2504.22 — Would your story work in a vastly different setting?
Hehehe.
I tell stories about characters with rather universal issues. The story is a plot line and transmogrified characters from an earlier work in a vastly different setting. Shhhh!
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#PennedPossibilities 651 — Name one person that would willingly hold your MC back if they were ever in the “raving lunacy” stage of anger.
Mi and Mau, May Ri's twins Miriam and Maurine, do this for their mother in Mars Needed Women. The overwhelming rage they moderate is very reasonable for their mother to feel, but the emotion wrapped up in it could ruin what the woman needs to do about it. It's Mau who succeeds in averting Armageddon.
Streak Carryingaton starts Reluctant Moon by trying to stop Thorn Rose from doing something very much in her character but which common sense says she should not. It's the catalyst for the story. He fails in stopping her since she's the mission commander. At the end of the novel, it's him who tries to stop the main series antagonist who he knew intimately. It's his lot in life to moderate the women in his life.
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#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
This is why your favourite celebrities are wearing ‘Protect The Dolls’ t-shirts https://www.inbella.com/1014019/this-is-why-your-favourite-celebrities-are-wearing-protect-the-dolls-t-shirts-2/ #CelebritiesNews #Gender #GenderIdentity #law #LGBT #PedroPascal #trans #transgender #TroyeSivan
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