cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/72043

2/4/2021 Update: In light of chucklefuck TERF shit with Giggle, I am once again demanding the rest of you liberals educate yourselves on trans issues with Trans Liberation as a starting point. And you better believe more literature on minority struggle is in the pipelines. We're doing some reading this month, libs. Get ready.


AUDIOBOOKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR ALL 8 CHAPTERS. YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR LIBERALISM.

https://hexbear.net/post/48476

Follow that link and you'll find a free download of the book in pdf and comrade @EugeneDebs's epub, comrade @futomes' audiobooks for all eight chapters, and notes and discussions from the book (and don't you dare just read the fucking notes you god damn liberals, read the fucking book or listen to the audiobook).

I spent an entire weekend night scanning the whole damn book so y'all could educate yourselves on the fucking struggles we've been screaming about for the past six months and hardly any of you damn cissie libs participated. Had you participated you'd probably have a better understanding of the struggles we face and we probably wouldn't be in this situation where trans people are heading for this damn hills because you're all shit libs driving us away.

Fucking read it or listen to the audiobooks and I won't ask again. It's all free. The book is only 147 pages - that's 7 pages per night for exactly 3 weeks. I wipe my fucking ass with 7 pages, that's nothing. People put genuine effort into this to ensure you could educate yourselves and you have no reason not to outside of fucking liberalism.

It reads quick. Drop whatever the fuck you're reading and read this. Now. :leslie-shining:

Edit: I'll be throwing up a discussion thread at some point in the next week or so for you damn shitlibs to comment on with things you find meaningful so I'll know if you actually gave a shit. I swear to God I better see y'all in the comments.

If you're having trouble downloading, there are links in this comment by u/hexaflexagonbear that seem to work.

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Reposting some links since !transenby_liberation@hexbear.net is local-only so the links dont show up. Repost from https://hexbear.net/post/48476

CW for mentioning SV

original thread
week #1 thread
week #2 thread
pdf download
epub download - Huge shout out to comrade @EugeneDebs for putting this together. I realized I didn't credit them in either post but here it is. I appreciate your efforts. ❤️
chapter 1 audiobook - Huge shout out to comrade @futomes for recording these. No words can truly express my appreciation for this. Thank you so much. ❤️
chapter 2 audiobook
chapter 3 audiobook
chapter 4 audiobook
chapter 5 audiobook
chapter 6 audiobook
chapter 7 audiobook
chapter 8 audiobook

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[–] 70 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Finally time for me to redeem myself and read this

wild to think that I thought I was cis when the drama and the pronouns struggle session first dropped and now several years later I'm wearing skirts and shit vivian-shrug

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What was that struggle session? I was still cis tho while I was on Reddit Chapo, but I took a break because Hexbear pre federation was different. Still

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    We had a load of reactionary patsoc types and their adjacents who used to use / raid the site and they were really, really upset about mandatory pronouns and being told not to be transphobic

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  • [–] 69 points 3 years ago

    Honestly this should go in c/bestofhexbear for posterity

    But more importantly read Feinbergleslie-shining

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What's that meme with "you're really going to die for trans people?" "Someone is..."

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago

    no more half measures walter

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • Beginning my reread and I just want to note that Feinberg goes out of hir way to detail how trans liberation is liberatory for everyone, not just trans people, and does so without centering cis people as that line of thought so often does. I think that’s a big part of the book’s accessibility, is that it targets a wholistic view of sex and gender.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I hope this gets some visibility on the federated instances. there's a lot of people over there that could do with reading this.

    if you're visiting from another instance: read this book. it's short and it will change your perspective on queer politics. there's no liberation for any of us without liberation for us all.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    pls crosspost this to Lemmygrad so it's easier to pin it there

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Being bullied into reading this book by TC69 is one of the most important things that has ever happened in both my personal and political development.

    Losing hir still hits hard. I could have learned so much more. trans-heart

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago

    Good shit then... good shit now.

    feinberg-sicko

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    Shout out to the user who recorded the audiobook. Did a pretty good job.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    Uphold TC69 Thought forever.

    That post made me engage with Feinberg and that book, and I actually read it and posted a little comment/review of it later as TC69 had asked. I was cis but already opening up and questioning a little back then, but that book genuinely helped me a lot, and look at me now.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago*

    The shattering of hard lines is the foundation of a better future. In all places, in all forms.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    The Hexbear bible

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    TC69 thought should be taught in elementary school

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    Fair enough I'll listen to it at work

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    I'll find some time to read it. I mean, that's what normies do, right?

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for posting, I have been looking for something like this as a resource to educate myself on the subject.

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    Also read Transgender Warriors

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This book rules, got me reading a lot of other queer theory. People should read it even if you're not trans.

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