100% of the cloaks and capes I’ve seen IRL have been as part of either someone’s weird cosplay or some neckbeard/weeb shit. I think that, a bit like the fedora, they’re just sorta ruined now due to the people who wear them.
The Navy meanwhile had a Shinji and Kaworu cosplayer making out with each other. Know your audience
This is what I particularly hate about self censorship If you are behaving a certain way to please an algorithm or an advertiser, you’re just cosplaying as a bot—particularly on lemmy where all it’s going to accomplish is annoyance Say whatever the fuck you like, it’s more human
The crime imho is not cosplaying as a doctor on Instagram but applying for medical jobs with a fake resume with fake degrees I see nothing wrong on the screenshots of the now deleted Instagram profile, she’s doing paid modeling “this nail polish is so pretty”, “this scrub is so comfy” or saying the usual bullshit “remember to eat 2 fruit a day” but nowhere where she’s claiming to be a doctor or giving dangerous medical advice. Less dangerous than “doctor” Oz in the States. if you get a job as a project manager in an hospital just because you knew that they didn’t check and lied to have 3 medical degrees, that’s a worse problem
South Africa very narrowly avoided becoming an international pariah yet again and forsaking any goodwill the non-Western world (especially Palestinians) built over the last 32 years since the end of Apartheid, especially with the Cuban Ambassador present in Johannesburg as Africa’s most important city was experiencing a humanitarian crisis in the middle of it’s airport. Border security was prepared to force the plane with the 160 Palestinian refugees to leave because the Nazi entity had intentionally not stamped the passports and falsely claimed they are not allowed to request asylum. Pastor Nigel Branken was onboard the flight and during an interview given to Salaamedia at the airport even called the border patrol as counter-revolutionaries. He even stated that the flight was only halted because an ambulance was responding to medical emergencies onboard the plane and had strategically parked in the path of the aircraft, preventing it from taxiing and sending the refugees “into the ovens”. This “delay” also gave time for other South African heads of state to intervene. Had the flight taken off, it would have caused a permanent black stain on the post-Apartheid South Africa’s reputation that will never wash off in the eyes of the world. There may even be mass civil unrest in South Africa against the government’s lack of timely action resulting in turning away Palestinians who were hopeful to finally live in guaranteed safety and normality once they saw the iridescent South African flags and the cityscape of Johannesburg and Pretoria out of the plane windows. And we would have yet one more burning flag emoji to add to our collection. G20 was also present in Johannesburg, but… Death to piSSrael, unlimited Iranian hypersonic missiles on the Nazi entity. If Tel Aviv wants to cosplay as the Third Reich, Tehran should play along as the Soviet Union and bring down Stalin’s Hammer on that wee Nazi shite
It’s called gender-bending, at least in my local cosplay groups. It’s done frequently and usually turns out great because of the passion and care put into it. Go for it!
I’ve been asked this a few times. It is hard to sum it up without info dumping on someone. People usually walk by, ask what we are doing, and might even join in just to enjoy the ride of hitting other people (safely). Amtgard to me is a way to meet new people, form friendships, have a creative outlet, pickup arts & crafts skills, cosplay, play games, and exercise. Amtgard is a battle gaming and live-action fantasy roleplaying and boffer combat game with chapters primarily based in the United States and Canada as well as Germany, Croatia, and South Korea. We reenact medieval combat with foam weaponry and roleplaying. It’s basically live action d&d. Or nerd fight club with silly outfits. There’s a wiki for those more curious.
lol … that would actually be hilarious Get a bunch of guys and cosplay as ICE agents and join their raids and gatherings and confuse the hell out of them. Imagine 20 no name, non identifiable ICE agents raiding a place, then coming out of the building to 100 ICE agents that look like them mingling in with their group. The cosplayers just play along, making orders, taking orders, following, arguing, screaming, shouting, pushing and just causing general mayhem.
And it’s getting harder to distinguish. I mean… look at Jasmine Crockett, since Mamdani’s win, liberals have started cosplaying as progressives. You can tell, because the only thing they do is point out the problems, but never propose a solution, while people like Bernie and Mamdani didn’t stop with pointing out “healthcare and housing are expensive”, they ran on actual solutions like medicare and rent-freezing.
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Didn’t quite make everything in the full costume but I plan on adding more over time that I have made.
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Students at the University of York, led by the York Student Action Network staged a loud but peaceful demonstration against the ratification of the Restore Britain Society. Whilst the protest remained non-violent, the atmosphere remained tense due to the annoyingly aggressive tactics of said society. The society, whose parent party is led by dickhead-in-chief Rupert Lowe, calls for mass deportations. Protesters stood in human chains to shield their comrades from the society’s irritating members, who spent all afternoon filming students and mocking them. Looks like misogyny is alive and well in the accolades of Lowe. Dignity vs dickheads at York The protesters were absolutely spot on. About 60 of them surrounded the student union building, a beautifully diverse crowd whose energy exploded, making the five guys in suits look like relics from a miserable past. This Restore lot stood there with sneers on their slapped-arse faces. Meanwhile, the protesters were full of life, passion, solidarity and a do-not-fuck-with-us attitude. It was a stunning sight to see a group that actually likes the true future of this country. They stood tall against a bunch of suited dickheads who want to drag us back to some shitty dark age that these guys seem to crave. Seriously, why is he cosplaying as Young Bob? What was the most impressive was the sheer discipline of these people. As the university staff watched on, some laughing, these Restore lads were using the same provocative tactics of far-right auditors. One of them even looked a like a Poundshop knock-off of Young Bob. But despite these few dickheads trying to repeatedly bum-rush the demo, a wall of masked women stood vigil and stopped them. Funny though, how these far-right types always like to bully women, and that seems to stretch across all age-ranges. Mockery and misogyny dressed in shit suits The Restore Britain Society showed up in pinstripes and aviators, like weird incel caricatures. I think some part of them wanted to portrait an air of being academically elite, but their behaviour told a different story. Looming and jeering over a line of women who stood as a human shield isn’t a good luck guys. It doesn’t make you look brave or edgy, it makes you look pathetic. One member was caught on camera sneering that the protesters “can only afford one megaphone”. Guys, you didn’t even turn up with one, so sit down. This classist bullshit from a tiny minority of the student body that think a bank balance determines your right to be heard is wild. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WhatsApp-Video-2026-04-23-at-10.42.11.mp4 This lot aren’t auditors, but they love the tactics. They stood with phones held high, trying to film the faces of the women protecting the crowd. Hoping for that viral ‘gotcha’ reaction from protesters, when all they did was make themselves look ridiculous. They want to play the victim card, holler about free speech. Restore claim they face “harassment, bullying and isolation” to the Student Union, but the reality is the opposite. They are the ones creating the hostile environment, using their physical presence to intimidate women and trans people who refuse to back down. And the university staff did fuck all about it. The security were there for no reason at all it seems. Staff complacency at York is a stab in the back While students were left to protect one another, the behaviour of some of the university staff was pathetic. They were there, there was a presence, but to say they were useless is an understatement. Several of them were even seen laughing with members of the Restore Society. How the hell is it okay for university staff to be seen having a giggle with a group that advocates for mass deportations of Black and Brown people? This isn’t a lapse in judgement, it’s a total betrayal of the university’s duty of care. A Restore Society student having issues operating a flag The party that these students represent isn’t just right-wing. It’s a hard line offshoot of Reform UK that wants 200,000 removals on day one. When staff are seen joking with these dickheads, it sends a message to the international members of the university to eff off, basically. That their safety is nothing but a joke. And they make up 28% of the York University student body. When this Restore rabble are advocating for the ban of Halal and Kosher foods to “restore Christian values” what does that say to Jewish and Muslim students? That they’re not welcome. And to see staff laughing with them is a total betrayal. Almost as bad as them allowing these goons to intimidate women and bum-rush the crowd. Come on guys, get a grip. Will the SU draw the line? Kaitlyn Beattie-Zarb, the York SU activities officer now has a choice to make. Having previously pledged to “call out any attempt to undermine dignity, respect and safety,” this seems like it will be an easy choice for her, surely? When you have a group calling for mass deportations, banning of literal food and who go around intimidating others, it seems to me like this will be an easy decision. And ratifying this group would be an admission that the SU cares more about the ‘rights’ of bullies than the safety of students. And trust me when I say, if this society is upheld, the protesters will continue to organise against them. Freedom of speech will never be freedom from consequence, and those masked up students absolutely meant business. The women who held the line yesterday showed more integrity than the university staff who played nice with radicals. These groups, whether they come under the banner of Reform, Restore or Britain First, all use the same shitty playbook of intimidation and misogyny. It’s time for the University of York to stop laughing along and start keeping it’s students safe. And if the Restore Society’s freedom of speech involves Instagram posts like this, the right choice becomes ever more clear. Seriously, wtf is this? If the SU validates this intimidation as ‘free speech,’ what’s to stop this Restore Society targeting students in their classrooms next? And the weird appearance of swastikas all over the University also needs investigating. Especially when the culprit hasn’t exactly covered their tracks. So, York University… what will it be? Image via AntifaBot By Antifabot From Canary via This RSS Feed.
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Establishment figures want more money for war. Recent days have seen government ministers, ex-ministers and generals all demanding welfare is cut to fund massive hikes to ‘defence’ budgets. Turns out they’re all linked to Israel, oil, arms and private healthcare. Quelle surprise, hey? War hawks gather The Canary reported on 15 April that UK PM and Chief Silly-Bum of Britainshire-upon-Thames Keir Starmer was under pressure to hike military budgets. The authors of the 2025 Strategic Defence Review were among the most vocal critics. These include former Labour defence minister Lord Robertson and ex-British army general Richard Barrons. Now, Thatcherite Labour health minister Wes Streeting chipped in as well. Turns out these figures have a links to various lobby groups across issues like pharmaceutical and the arms trade. Barrons said on 15 April that US defence chief Pete Hegseth was right that the Royal Navy was a shadow of itself. Like many others I hung my head in sorrow. But I couldn’t argue with him because although the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force and the army are, in their bones, outstanding institutions, they are simply too small and too undernourished to deal with the world that we we now live in. And the review says this. Lord Robertson, in a major 15 April speech, said that Starmer is: not willing to make the necessary investment. Funnily enough that money, Robertson said, should be squeezed out of the less well-off: We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget. Classic. Corrosive complacency Robertson announced: There is a corrosive complacency today in Britain’s political leadership. Lip service is paid to the risks, the threats, the bright red signals of danger – but even a promised national conversation about defence can’t be started. He also accused “non-military experts in the Treasury” of “vandalism”. Which sounds like a pitch for more military control of the economy. The BBC reported: Lord Robertson’s apparent suggestion that the government could find money by reducing the welfare bill may be one that is shared by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Pressed on the matter in an LBC interview, working class cosplayer Streeting said: Yes, we do need to put more money into defence, we will need more, that’s the reality of the challenge we face. Pressed on where it would come from, he said: We definitely want to reduce the welfare budget. It’s for the Chancellor to set out her budgets, I want to make sure I stay in my lane. Pressured further he told the channel: It’s got to come from somewhere. So why not already vulnerable disabled people who are already struggling to live, eh Wes? Talk about pulling the ladder up, Streeting… Big Pharma and arms trade links Now we come to it… the great grift of our times. Let’s start with Barrons, who is co-chair of Universal Defence and Security Solutions (UDSS). Here’s what UDSS has to say about itself: UDSS is a leader in not only the delivery of practical advice and service in all areas of defence and security but also in the thinking and execution of digital age Defence and Security Transformation, including applied cyber. A man with a vested interest in defence spending, in short… NATO chief and BP advisor How about Lord Robertson who once headed NATO? Well, Lord Robertson is a ‘senior counselor‘ at the US-based Cohen Group. The Cohen Group assists: aerospace and defense firms on policy, business development and transactions. We have helped firms from the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Turkey, Israel, GCC, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan to succeed in North America, Europe, the Middle East, India, Latin America, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. They have: assisted clients to compete for and win tens of billions of dollars in contracts, to enter new international markets, to build joint venture and other partnerships overseas, and to move up the supply chain. Another man with an interest in defence spending increases them? Cohen Group also helps out energy firms. Which is lucky… because Robertson is an advisor to the CEO of British Petroleum. Delightful. One-way Streeting How about Streeting? Well, it’s no secret that as health secretary Streeting has been a strident advocate of privatising the NHS down to the last doorknob. That may have something to do with his profound links to private healthcare firms… but who can say? These links are probably best demonstrated by this popular breakdown, in this case tweeted by Streeting’s nemesis Green Party leader Zack Polanski: Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn’t tell the bit about how much he’s accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir.#BBCQT pic.twitter.com/r51e5dojEd — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) March 19, 2026 Streeting has also received tens of thousands of pound from the Israel lobby, according to this report by our pals at Declassified UK. The report notes that: Streeting became the first member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet to visit Israel, in a move designed to signal a break with Jeremy Corbyn’s pro-Palestine position. The trip was paid for by, you guessed it… our old chums at Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). When a group of establishment drones want to cut welfare to fund militarism and war, the first question you must always ask is: whose pocket are you in? That is certainly worth asking of this gaggle of wrong ‘uns, as it turns out. A little scrutiny links them directly to some of the most obnoxious interests around: from private healthcare and the arms industry, through to Israel lobbyists and global energy giants. They must think we’re bloody fools or something… Featured image via the Canary By Joe Glenton From Canary via This RSS Feed.
Dia daoibh a chairde! Some of you may remember the previous Transfeminism Reading List I compiled: https://hexbear.net/post/4435465 Unfortunately, not long after that I lost access to that account, and was unable to update the post. So here I am, remaking it, in a way that allows me to keep it updated into the future. Have you ever found yourself wanting to read a good book about queer feminism but you weren’t sure where to look? I have spent more hours than I would care to admit studying, writing about, and educating on the topic of gender and sexuality, and I’ve realized that I could lend a bit of my educational development work to you kind folks by prepping this here reading list. I hope you can find something to interest you–and I would love to talk about any of the works listed. The categories are not hard and fast, with many books belonging in several of them, but I figured there had to be some way to organize this, so bear with me. I also tried to narrow inclusion to books relating to queer/feminist studies. ::: spoiler 1. Introduction to Feminism The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvior This Sex Which Is Not One - Luce Irigaray In the Beginning, She Was - Luce Irigaray An Ethics of Sexual Difference - Luce Irigaray Speculum of Other Women - Luce Irigaray The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation - Margaret Benston Women and Economics - Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community - Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone I am Woman: Native Perspective of Sociology and Feminism - Lee Maracle I Myself am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling - Ding Ling Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement - Anuradha Ghandy Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - Silvia Federici Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories - Hilary Klein Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader - Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea - Hwasook Nam Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place, and Irish Women - Bronwen Walter ::: ::: spoiler 2. Intersectionality and Black Feminism Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Geraldine Audre Lorde This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor Women, Race, and Class - Angela Y. Davis Women, Culture, and Politics - Angela Y. Davis Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology - Margaret L. Anderson and Patricia Hill Collins Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice - Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ruth Enid Zambrana and Patricia Hill Collins Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound - Daphne A. Brooks ::: ::: spoiler 3. Trans* and Gender Diversity The Transfeminist Manifesto - Emi Koyama Transfeminism: A Collection - Emi Koyama Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us - Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaws: the Next Generation - Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender - Riki Wilchins Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue - Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman - Leslie Feinberg Beyond Gender Binaries: The History of Trans, Intersex, and Third-Gender Individuals - Rita Santos Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity - Julia Serano Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive - Julia Serano Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back - Julia Serano Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism - Julia Serano Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People - Viviane K. Namaste Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism - Viviane K. Namaste My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage - Susan Stryker The Transgender Studies Reader - Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle The Transgender Studies Reader 2 - Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution - Susan Stryker We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category - David Valentine Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality - Jay Prosser You’ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity - Laurie J. Shrage In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives - Judith Halberstam How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States - Joanne Meyerowitz Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality - Gayle Salamon The Lives of Transgender People - Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad - Hil Malatino Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary - Morty Diamond Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice - Merrick Daniel Pilling Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism - Patricia Gherovici Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach - Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - Don Kulick Beyond Emasculation: Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh - Adnan Hossain Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South Asia - Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment and Jeff Roy Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines - Mark Johnson Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America - Will Roscoe A Short History of Transmisogyny – Jules Gill-Peterson ::: ::: spoiler 4. Understanding Intersex Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men - Anne Fausto-Sterling Sex/Gender/Biology in a Social World - Anne Fausto-Sterling Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality - Anne Fausto-Sterling Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex - Alice Dromurat Dreger Intersex - Catherine Harper Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex - Elizabeth Reis Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud - Thomas Walter Laqueur Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis - Georgiann Davis The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex - Hida Vilori and Maria Nieto Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity - Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience - Hil Malatino Critical Intersex - Morgan Holmes Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience - Katrina Karkazis Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism - David A. Rubin Intersex Rights: Living Between Sexes - Nikoletta Pikramenou Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives - Stefan Horlacher Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kinky, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People - Brandy L. Simula, J. E. Sumerau and Andrea Miller Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives - Angela Pattatuchi Aragón ::: ::: spoiler 5. Queer Theory and Philosophy Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - Judith Butler Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex - Judith Butler Undoing Gender - Judith Butler Performativity and Performance - Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others - Sara Ahmed Deleuze and Queer Theory - Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr Epistemology of the Closet - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Tendencies - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, and Performativity - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation - Fintan Walsh New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment - Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz Sexual Subversions - Elizabeth Grosz Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power - Elizabeth Grosz Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism - Silvia Federici Thinking Through the Skin - Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism - Sara Ahmed Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality - Sara Ahmed Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction - Elizabeth Grosz A Rave at the End of the World: The Politics of Queer Hauntology and Psychedelic Chronomancy - Sean Michael Feiner Queer/Early/Modern - Carla Freccero ::: ::: spoiler 6. Exploring Sexuality The Straight Mind and Other Essays - Monique Wittig Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town - Esther Newton Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas - Esther Newton Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America - Esther Newton Sapphists and Sexologists: Histories of Sexualities - Mary McAuliffe Witchcraft and Gay Counterculture - Arthur Evans Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader - Gayle S. Rubin Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life - Denise Tse-Shang Tang Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China - Hongwei Bao Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires - Francisca Yuenki Lai Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten - Travis S. K. Kong Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies - Chou Wah-Shan The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China - Tze-Lan D. Sang Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China - Tiantian Zheng Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography - Elisabeth L. Engebretsen Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary - Fran Martin Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan - Xianyong Bai and Hans Tao-Ming Huang Queer Sinophone Cultures - Howard Chiang and Ari Larissa Heinrich Boy-wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities - Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature - Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures - Gul Ozyegin Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland - Anthony Bradley and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities – Nick Walker ::: ::: spoiler 7. Cultural Critique Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women’s Writings - Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora The Dress of Women: A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety - Marjorie Garber Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice - Mark Thompson Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback - Susan Stryker Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories - Zheng Wang Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture - Lisa Rofel Transgender China - Howard Chiang A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China - Cai Hua Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism, and Media Cultures - Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder and Hongwei Bao Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality and Chineseness - Jamie J. Zhao Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism - Hongwei Bao Queer Media in China - Hongwei Bao Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Culture in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - Maud Lavin, Ling Yang and Jing Jamie Zhao Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music - Tes Slominski Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature - Peter Berresford Ellis The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power - Jennifer M. Jeffers Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power - Linden Peach LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland - Páraic Kerrigan The Poor Bugger’s Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History - Patrick R. Mullen Women and the Irish Nation: Gender, Culture, and Irish Identity, 1890-1914 - D. A. J. MacPherson Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Smut: Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology - Murray S. Davis Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society - Lila Abu-Lughod Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories - Lila Abu-Lughod Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women’s Work in Italy and the U.S. - Laura E. Ruberto Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights - Peter Jackson Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis – Nicholas Chare, Jeanette Hoorn, and Audrey Yue ::: ::: spoiler 8. Queer Marxism Transgender Marxism - Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke Transition and Abolition: Notes on Marxism and Trans Politics - Jules Joanne Gleeson Lavender and Red - Leslie Feinberg Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons - Silvia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle - Silvia Federici The Problematics of Heterosexuality: Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Mother Nature - Hilary Manette Klein The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection - Holly Lewis Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation - Kevin B. Anderson, Kieran Durkin and Heather A. Brown Queer Marxism in Two Chinas - Petrus Liu Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964 - Zheng Wang Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era - Xueping Zhong, Wang Zheng and Bai Di The Women’s Revolution: Russia 1905 - 1917 - Judy Cox Social-Democracy and Woman Suffrage - Clara Zetkin Lenin on the Woman Question - Clara Zetkin The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex-Role Socialization in the USSR - Lynne Attwood Revolution, She Wrote - Clara Fraser The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus – Petrus Liu Marxism and Education Beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling – Faith Agostinone-Wilson Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge – Sara Carpenter and Sharzad Mojab ::: ::: spoiler 9. Abolition Abolition. Feminism. Now. - Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color - Andrea J. Ritchie Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation - Beth E. Richie We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba Abolitionist Intimacies - El Jones Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States - Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - Eric A. Stanley Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade Transgender Sex Work and Society - Larry Nutbrock Revolting Prostitutes - Molly Smith and Juno Mac Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State - Judith R. Walkowitz The Social Construction of AIDS Issues - Suiming Pan Thinking Differently About HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science - Eric Mykhalovskiy and Viviane K. Namaste Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide - Ardath Whynacht Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence - Lexie Bean Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea - Eunjung Kim Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back – Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald On the Decriminalization of Sex Work in China: HIV and Patients’ Rights – Jinmei Meng Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China – Eileen Otis Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue – Elena Shih Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China – Tiantian Zheng Sex Trafficking, Human Rights and Social Justice – Tiantian Zheng Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism – Tiantian Zheng China’s Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice – Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes – Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, and Treena Orchard Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation – Sophie Lewis ::: ::: spoiler 10. Anti-Imperialism and Internationalism Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times - Jasbir Puar Class, Gender, and Neoliberalism - Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale Gender and Colonialism: A Psychological Analysis of Oppression and Liberation - Geraldine Moane Gender and Imperialism - Clare Midgley The Beginning and End of R-pe: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America - Sarah Deer Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide - Andrea Smith Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance - Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-Lughod Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress - Stephanie Cronin Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon - Nicola Pratt Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine - Nada Elia Palestinian Women’s Activism: Nationalism, Secularism, Islamism - Islah Jad Israel/Palestine and the Queer International - Sarah Schulman Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Saed Atshan Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude - Saffo Papantonopoulou Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case-Study - Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges - María Lugones, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso and Nelson Maldonado-Torres Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space: Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean - Eve Walsh Stoddard Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice - Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact - Margaret Jolly and Martha Macintyre Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence - Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific - Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism - J. Kēhaulani Kauanui :::
People are concerned about authoritarian overreach, so the state decides to step in and do authoritarian overreach in response. I would like to hear all the very strong and principled second amendment “don’t tread on me” cosplayers, who have been lathered up about this very danger my whole life, explain to me why they aren’t setting up sniper positions right now to counter the deployment of these troops.
I’m doing an NCR Trooper cosplay and what I’ve noticed is that buying an M16A1 airsoft gun and some brown paint for the furniture is WAYYYYY cheaper than buying a non-functioning prop. Like, the website I saw listed an M1 Carbine Airsoft gun as 250 dollars but the prop version is over 1000. What gives?
in most 1st world countries The US isn’t a 1st world country. It just cosplays as one.