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Shon Faye publishing book on trans rights

157 replies

PrincessPlummy · 12/03/2019 13:28

'So my first book is being published by Penguin Press. It’s a political discussion (‘polemic’ sounds too angry) how British trans people are discriminated against in every aspect of life. Sick of the media conversation so starting my own. Stay tuned!'

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DeRigueurMortis · 12/03/2019 20:35

£70 - wonder if SF is expecting their mates to crowd fund their copies.

I suppose people have asked to be financed for marginally less triviality.

BlackForestCake · 12/03/2019 20:36

Imagine how miserably unsuccessful Faye would be as a man, with no discernible wit, skill or talent.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 12/03/2019 20:36

SEVENTY QUID?

sorenipples · 12/03/2019 20:39

Can't you self publish on amazon quite cheaply?

ToeToToe · 12/03/2019 20:43

Shon's just jealous of the born-cunty women of mumsnet Grin

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 12/03/2019 20:45

70 quid?

I would expect Shon to have personally illustrated each edition. In crayon naturally. Can’t be trusted with anything too pointy.

RepealTheGRA · 12/03/2019 21:49

Enjoy your erasure, Shon.

WokerThanWoke · 12/03/2019 22:30

I’m reckoning every other page will be a selfie of Shon.

Shon is Oxbridge educated and was working as a lawyer/solicitor/barrister I think? Shon mentions finances, but I don’t think it’s anyone else’s fault if Shon gave up a good career for a life of narcissism.

CaptainMarvelBunting · 12/03/2019 22:36

I think I shall be spending £70 then.

On my weekly groceries at Aldi.

AncientLights · 12/03/2019 22:47

Surely a book on trans rights would be very short?

Same rights as everyone else.

StephsCaddy · 12/03/2019 23:11

Let’s ignore the ludicrous price tag as nobody would have bought it in the first place.
Shon is an irrelevance.

mirandayardley · 13/03/2019 10:02

Oh, Shon once wrote me a letter.

Shon Faye publishing book on trans rights
LangCleg · 13/03/2019 10:07

Looking at the elegiac prose in that, I hope Shon has a good copy editor, Miranda!

2019StandingforWomen · 13/03/2019 10:10

Wow Miranda that is one confused and rambling rant. Doesn't sound like transitioning has brought the happiness that was expected

CaptainMarvelBunting · 13/03/2019 10:16

Yeah, that letter is dripping with 'hopeful kindness'.

Hmm
BettyDuMonde · 13/03/2019 10:20

That’s ironic, seeing as he only women with opinions Shon is interested in are the penis-baring ones.

Here’s the synopsis of the upcoming book:

LGBT identity has always been fiercely political. Not so long ago, simply being openly `gay' was itself a radical act. Yet today, gay rights have become a part of the political mainstream, with politicians, businesses, and once hostile institutions such as the police and military all lining up to declare their support for LGBT equality. But much of this acceptance has hinged on a narrow and restrictive conception of gay identity, dominated by the voices of middle class, white and politically conservative gay men

Surveying the state of LGBT politics both in the UK and around the world, Pinkwashed examines the compromises and concessions which gay men have had to make in achieving this newfound respectability. It also considers the consequences of this agenda for women, transgender people and those LGBT people from non-Western backgrounds, whose voices have been suppressed in the march to political assimilation with mainstream, heterosexual society. Featuring interviews with contemporary gay activists as well as some of the founding members of the original gay liberation movement, Shon Faye's insightful and iconoclastic book calls on the LGBT community to rediscover its radical roots, and to build a new, inclusive and genuinely progressive agenda for gay rights

Shon’s newly minted status as a heterosexual woman seems to me to be driving Shon’s ambition to redefine gayness, now that it no longer includes Shon.

Bit narcissistic, eh, Shon?

WeRiseUp · 13/03/2019 10:21

So Shon having your room clearned and tidied by an invisible herd of obedient women every day at Agnus Dei must have felt so discriminatory! I'm sure you would have much prefered a fair world where you could scurry around unseen doing all the shit work with them. What awful discrimination that must have been.

BettyDuMonde · 13/03/2019 10:22

Gin for Miranda.

Hope you’ve managed to get some good quality sleep in, Mir - I’m enjoying you and Clare on YouTube.
Pickled Onion Monster Munch are best though.

Trousering · 13/03/2019 10:29

That letter! A stoned ramble.
The book must be costing a fortune in weed to write!

LangCleg · 13/03/2019 10:29

How anybody could not choose Pickled Onion Monster Munch defies belief.

littlbrowndog · 13/03/2019 10:32

I know Lang. I bloody love them

Fazackerley · 13/03/2019 10:34

That letter is really nasty and says a lot about Shon. If Shon isn't cringing with embarrassment they should be.

Yes, enjoy your erasure Shon.

Datun · 13/03/2019 10:36

Dear god, that letter.

A bitter, purile, incoherent projection of spite and jealousy. Shot through with venom, couched in ridiculous playground insults.

And why is Shon writing about gay men? What on earth has it got to do with a 'heterosexual woman'?

Of course, I doubt very much that Shon is writing anything, judging by that piece of rambling shite.

EcclesThePeacock · 13/03/2019 10:41

I'm assuming that Shon's assertion re getting Miranda's letter in the Morning Star deleted was mere bluster ? Hmm

RepealTheGRA · 13/03/2019 10:41

I don’t pity you Miranda, I LIKE you.