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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      When it comes to student debt forgiveness in the US, we talk a lot about the selfishness of people who struggled to pay off their loans saying, "Well, *I* had to suffer, so it's not fair that anyone else has an easier time!" and I think that's 100% Haynes's vibe here.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      Should she have suffered in the past? No! Nobody deserves to have their marginalisation ignored or weaponised against them! But this is not a good reason to claim that, because YOU suffered, other people must do so in the future, or else their experiences don't count the same!

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      And what Haynes is doing, right here? Is ignoring and weaponising the marginalisation of others against them. She's saying, "unless you perform paincore to my satisfaction, I will not allow you to claim your identity. I will doubt your identity is real. You do not count."

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      If a hijabi Muslim takes off her scarf to avoid violence, she is still Muslim. If a mixed-race person passes as white to avoid being targeted for racial abuse, they are still mixed-race. If a queer person stays in the closet to avoid being murdered, they're still queer.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      There's something so depressingly neo-Calvinist about applying this paincore logic to marginalisation. "You've been made to suffer, so embrace the suffering as necessary; avoiding suffering is indulgence, which leads to sin." Literally fuck OFF.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      Also, look. Speaking as someone who is also a white AFAB person? Haynes is a white AFAB person who could stand to realise that, compared to a lot of other people, she still has privilege; it just doesn't relate to her disability.

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      Her whole thesis is based on the idea that, if you're not willing to risk the worst that could happen if your marginalisation was always visible, it doesn't count. Hi, hello, every trans person murdered or harassed into suicide for being out WOULD LIKE A FUCKING WORD.

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      I just. If you can't acknowledge that maybe, JUST MAYBE, the stakes are higher for some people and in some contexts than others, then perhaps you should consider that your comparative privilege is blinding you to some fairly fucking important truths.

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    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      Do some people pretend to have a marginalisation in order to feign the authority to talk unquestioned about that marginalisation? Yes, sadly, they do: the whole Jupiter Wyse thing recently is proof. See also: Rachel Dolezal and her shitty successors. But they are NOT THE MAJORITY

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    10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      The majority of people who hesitate to claim a marginalisation publicly, or who try to control how public that marginalisation is? Are either trying to keep themselves safe, or worried about being appropriative of their own identities PRECISELY BC OF ATTITUDES LIKE THIS.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

      the absolute GALL of a white woman saying that a mixed-race person ISN'T A REAL POC IF THEY'VE EVER PASSED FOR WHITE. WHAT THE SHITTING FUCK IS THIS RACIST NONSENSE??pic.twitter.com/u8gF4xJyQx

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          Let's talk about the notion of "choice" in these instances, too, because the idea that any of us are 100% in control of how we're perceived at all times? Is not remotely based in reality.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          A light-skinned Black person does not instinctively know, at any given moment, if they're "passing" sufficiently to fool a random white person. Was that cashier extra nice because they thought they were white, or were they just friendly?

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          If a trans person passes as their correct gender well enough that a transphobe mistakes them for cis, such that they feel comfortable talking about their willingness to hurt a trans person? THAT'S SCARY AS FUCK. You don't stop being trans if you stay quiet to stay safe!

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          Imagine you're a baby queer writer in an unsafe household, and you read this article saying that you can't claim to be queer online unless you're prepared to come out to the parents who might hurt you, disown you or both if they knew the truth.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          I'm so viscerally angry about this I could rant on for days, but I'm going to make myself stop now. Nalini Haynes and DMZ can both fuck off into the sun. KEEPING YOURSELF SAFE AND SECURE DOES NOT INVALIDATE YOUR MARGINALISATION. END OF FUCKING STORY.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          ETA: a friend has pointed out that I didn't include an alt-text for the one screencap I posted, so here it is again with an alt-text:pic.twitter.com/O9IoPvXtAO

          Quote from DMZ which reads: Meanwhile authors say “today I’ll be disabled but not if it means I miss out on opportunities”. They say “I’m queer but not when it’s inconvenient”. Or “I’m black but I will pass for white whenever it benefits me”. Every person who does not have a choice misses out on these opportunities. If you have a choice then you do not understand what it is to be hemmed in without choices. If you have a choice and you shed an identity like dirty clothing then you are not an “own voices” author.
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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

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          Jumping back on my own thread a final time because: THIS. https://twitter.com/thecmcaplan/status/1376206082901737472?s=21 …

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          HI HELLO, BISEXUALS AND PANSEXUALS EXIST! WE LITERALLY EXIST AND WE DON'T STOP BEING BI/PAN DEPENDING ON THE GENDER OF THE PERSON WE'RE WITH OR HOW LATE IN LIFE WE FIGURED OUR SHIT OUT! IDENTITY IS NOT DETERMINED BY PERFORMANCE!

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          listen. LISTEN. THERE IS NO ONE RIGHT WAY TO BE QUEER. none of us have the same identical realisation/coming out/dating experiences because, newsflash, WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT PEOPLE. also, where the fuck does any of this leave aro/ace/aroace people?

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 28

          Some ace people have biological children! This doesn't make them less ace, even though the proof that they did The Sex is walking around in the world! Lots of aro people are still in relationships! This doesn't make them allo! EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THIS IT GETS DUMBER

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