A Hivemind of Black Cats

(This post brought to you by chatting with Orion and Noel)

We know a bunch of people digging around in plural history stuff, which is awesome! Some people ask us where we find some of our data and stuff, so here’s a word of advice:

( Stay curious! )

This tape (05-834-93) comes from the 5th east regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality: Training and Treatment June 3-8, 1993 at the Radisson Hotel in Alexandria, VA. It was mercifully normal and boring! It is also not really my wheelhouse, so once I digitize it, I'm happy to give it to someone who'd appreciate it more; I know there are some van der Kolk fans on this blog. Let me know!

Also keep in mind I'm inking comics when I'm listening to these tapes, so my notes tend to be haphazard. When in doubt, assume the problem was me, not the speaker!

Mori: Okay, so, when we came of age, queerwise, there was this idea that trans people and gay people were two very different groups of people. Sure, maybe in those ignorant old days, the two were conflated, but that was wrong and now we are enlightened and know these are two totally different things (and also maybe we should not trust each other or affiliate with each other because trannies will make the gays look bad and cisgays are all privileged dipshits or whatever). This blog shows that history; "queerness" and "trans" are totally different tags because when we started using them, they were TREATED as completely different things.

But as we've been reading our older queer books, we're realizing that this plain isn't true! Gay people were gendering ALL OVER THE PLACE, and homogenizing them into "cis gay" ranges from misleading to outright insulting.

We are still fucking sick, so we're sticking with posting notes from the stuff we've read. Even we can't mess that up too bad!

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes.  (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here!  (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month?  YOU CHOOSE, readers!