"Spanish Stonewall" suing "Non Normative Trans People"

[WitchyWitcherson]

Saw this post on X from Glinner: https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1767691199794545138

"The Spanish equivalent to Stonewall (FELGTB) has been fuming some days because of those military guys who changed their legal sex to female without doing anything else (and keeping beards, wives, everything!), because they were proving us feminists so right.

So finally FELGTB have decided to sue the military guys (who created an organisation called "Non Normative Trans People" (TNN in its Spanish acronym) for "fraud". But TNN have doubled down and said that they are going to sue FELGTB for transphobia, because no reason has to be given for changing your ID and the law says you can't be questioned."

How transphobic of FELGTB, who are they to gatekeep transness?!

You Shall Go To the Military Balls - Queering the Masculinity of the Military, a study of the dress, marches, and lip-synch videos of world battalions, illustrated, by Mumsnet Vipers et al.

God i miss those days. Morning parade, knock off their hat and shout "get away" and watch them scuttle off to the guardroom for a day of being messed around by a guy with a loud voice and a pace stick.

To get back on topic - back in my day (pre don't ask, don't tell - very much if you were caught being gay, which happened IME more to women than men, you were charged with breaking Queen's Regs, possibly a bit of jail time, then out on your ear) you were more likely to encounter a lesbian than a gay or trans woman soldier (never met a trans woman soldier, I'm sure we'd have given them short shrift, tbh. We weren't "kind' it was dog-eat-dog back then)

“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater

Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and military hosts, and findings from a wider research project on contemporary British military culture, we reveal the key role of heteronormative and patriarchal cultural discourses in reproducing the ambivalent positionalities of women/LGBT+ soldiers. We argue that the very visibility of women/LGBT+ soldiers on the stage paradoxically operates to make the complexities of – and struggles against – masculinized heteronormative military cultures invisible. Furthermore, despite artists’ attempts to dissociate empowerment through soldiering from the problematic context of modern conflicts, “her-story” theater ultimately entrenches gendered/racialized hierarchies that normalize Western military interventions. We conclude that only through sustained feminist reflection on the contours of “imagined” futures of female/LGBT+ soldiering can this persistently problematic (in)visibility be productively disrupted.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2022.2097936

Someone beat us to it. Alas.

Probably the title needs more brackets and slashes. They love that.

Yes, but did you have goats? Or tassels?

Oh gawd it's real. I skim read that abstract feeling so impressed that you could churn out this stuff so quickly, only to see the tandfonline link at the end, 😂

Well that's half an hour of my life I'm never getting back.

one of my friends went into a regiment with a goat as mascot. And no tassels as such, but some of my lot came originally from guards regiments, at least one had a hackle😂

@ Emotionalsupportviper Thank you for the tattoos suggestion. Given the academic nature of this proposed research, I decided to check the O.E.D. for definitions of tattoos. I’d like to be completely clear. Are we talking about tattoo as in:

1. Military. A signal made, by beat of drum or bugle call, in the evening, for soldiers to repair to their quarters in garrison or tents in camp.
2. The formation of permanent marks or designs upon the skin by puncturing it and inserting a pigment
3. Beating as upon a drum; to thump, tap, or rap upon something with a succession of blows.
4. A native-bred Indian pony. Also attributive as tattoo horse, tattoo mare'*
5. An armadillo? *

I should make it clear that I am not qualified to inspect any of these so I’m probably eminently suitable. Actually, I’m willing to do anything for an ‘et al’ so thank you for asking. However, if I have a choice, please can I inspect Armadillos? I’m not very keen on the idea of having to stare at permanent pigmented marks on semi-naked men/hims/thems/etc. Not really my kind of thing IYSWIM. Maybe @JanesLittleGirl would be more suitable? She sounded very keen. 😁

*[I admit, I've never heard of 4) and 5) before. MN does provide a very broad education.]
Edited to get rid of the italics -failed.

Please tell me this was not funded by UK taxpayers.

I always thought the 'medicine and useful subjects like engeering only' argument about Universities was wrong but reading something like this, and seeing the 'academics' (heavy air quotes) who bullied Jo Phoenix at the ET, I'm inclined to reconsider.

Bagsy the ponies, I am getting in on this et al lark too. My relevant experience is having previously had a very randy mare who seemed to be permanently in season and couldn't walk past a field with a fella in without winking (I don't mean with her eyes...)

How do you know how the pony identifies though? Surely somehow we'd need to establish this?

“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater

I thought “what an excellent parody”. Silly me.

That's easy, put some food in a pink trug and some in a blue one and see which they eat from. Pink is female, blue is male and both is non binary.

My mare identified as starving so would wolf hers down before pushing the gelding she shared a field with out the way to eat his. She had to be tied up to eat as otherwise he didn't get any as he'd meekly move away and stand looking pitiful while she licked his trug clean.

I'm in for any form of masculine military fieldwork, keeping the subject still whilst, er, the research takes place. Trust me, I have hypnotised a horrified Regiment before purely with my breast movement.

When I saw "pom pom" I knew who it would be. 😄

<ticks that job off on "duty list" and adds @JanesLittleGirl 's name>

There is a rota for this particular task - just so you know. It's proved unsurprisingly popular.

That's easy for you say.

REAL?!?!?!?!?!

I thought it was another co-pilot collaboration.

I was only disappointed that there wasn't more knitting (and bananas).

I'm shocked, I tell you - shocked!

Excellent research skills!

Already you are at et al standard. As a reward you may care for the research team mascot - Glinner the armadillo - possibly @ArabellaScott may be able to provide a picture of him, resplendent in his little (hand-knitted) purple, green and white coat and plume.

<adds @TWETMIRF to pony duty responsibilities>

I have a cocker spaniel like that. She is almost spherical.

The job's yours.

My double-A's are nowhere near the task, so I'm happy to appoint you.

<licks tip of pencil in workwomanlike manner, and adds ABC's name to the duty list>

<has a feeling the attribution of et als is going to be longer than the research paper itself>

<decides to pad it out with statistics and some graphs>

looks sadly on and wonders how to be an et al. Maybe can offer a purple pencil?

Well that's half an hour of my life I'm never getting back.
You really shouldn't have said that...the video was only 3 minutes