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the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there
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you ever feel like a space that used to be a respite for you is now just...not? I don’t necessarily mean it’s not safe, just that going to a place which was once really productive and comfortable and energizing for you now feels stressful and uneasy? I (likely temporarily) stepped out of an organizing space that I’ve built up over the last year in order to deal with the intense workload around thesis/defense which is happening this upcoming Monday. Anyway, we started at three people and now we have a pretty robust core of about 20. What we’re trying to do is organize grad students into a union at the university where we all work, which is pretty fucking horrendous about how it treats us. This basically meant spending ~20hrs / week finding new students who wanted to organize, meeting with them, agitating, meeting with other unionizing grad students at other schools, managing personality conflicts in the group, etc as well as working on whatever campaigns/ social media stuff we were doing. All while doing grad school full time. It was energizing. We accomplished shit with only very few of us. While it’s explicitly in our bylaws that there is no “group leader,” a lot of things that would usually be directed to a president end up coming to me just because I’m the common person that everyone knows. Most folks in the group have zero other organizing experience; one has quite a lot, and two or three have basically been in the periphery of this one far left org (let’s call it WTF, for Women’s Task Force) in our very conservative small city. Most of us are quite left, though there are a decent number of centrists.   About WTF: basically there’s this one really...problematic? person who is employed by our university who leads WTF (which isn’t affiliated with the university). She, a white cis woman, collects people she can use as symbolic tokens (usually women of color, visibly disabled women, lesbians, and fat women) to use them in promo material, and get them to do errands for, and doesn’t help them gain more power or skills within the group. She consciously excludes transwomen and only allows AFAB nonbinary folxs, and not even those who have a more masc presentation much of the time. WTF is also massively outspoken about Palestine, which is usually a signal that a group may be pretty antiSemitic as well.  She uses her identity markers to shut down others who (legitimately) question her tactics.  WTF, in the 10ish years they’ve existed, has never made any actual policy or political changes in this town. They’ve never actually run a campaign. They basically just show up “in solidarity” with actions other people organize, and host fundraisers for themselves. So having to deal with them is pretty ick, because the people in that organization. WTF is basically bad news. The people from WTF--three women of color and two queer white women--are consistently bad about things which seem to be just fine for literally everyone else in the group. We understand that shit’s stressful as a grad student and that there are a lot of other things we could/ should all be doing in addition to organizing. But the few rules we have are freaking common sense/common courtesy, and not that hard to follow.  When people need to drop off the map for a while, they let others know that they’ll be out for a bit, and then get back in contact when their schedules free up again, so they can be caught up to speed at the next meeting. There’s also meeting notes which you can read to get back in the loop if you thought you’ve missed something: If you think you’re not going to be able to do something, you’re not supposed to commit to it.  If you can’t do something you committed to doing, give others a heads up so they can cover it. Last, since we’re trying to be a space that works for people across the political spectrum (not just like the total of 30 dedicated leftists here), we’re explicitly against callout culture. Meaning that if you have an issue with something someone says in meeting, you’re either supposed to hold it until the group evaluation (where there’s dedicated space for that), OR you’re supposed to have a conversation with the person about the situation, OR you’re supposed to talk to another neutral-party group member so they can have the conversation for you.  The WTF people have committed to following all of these rules and have been consistently bad at actually doing that, as per rules. They’ve consistently just not done the things they committed to, without actually telling anyone, leaving folks in the lurch. They consistently call people out in meetings in a way that alienates newcomers. They’ve consistently misgendered me, despite my asking them to not to, and speaking to them about it after meetings.   About five weeks ago, this started to become a really big problem as we planned a big public recruitment event. I had a few conversations with the people who’d primarily been affected by one of the WTF folks’ failure to follow through on commitments. They asked me to speak to her. So I took several days to plan and rehearse a conversation. She was extremely defensive (ok, that’s fine, whatever), and committed to a whole lot of other shit. My follow up with her was to meet on a regular basis, so we could check in and readjust. We met the week after that, shit seemed fine. The week after that, the day of the big event. she came to the 1:1 meeting we’d set up and basically yelled at me for an hour for promoting white supremacy in the group. I tried to ask her some questions but really it just was her telling me how I’m a white supremacist and by holding women of color accountable to rules which they too had voted for, in a UNANIMOUS VOTE, I’m promoting white supremacy. She suggested I go to WTF subgroup meetings called SURJ (showing up for racial justice), which is basically a reading circle for white people only to “deconstruct their complicitness in white supremacy.” One of my partners went once to learn more about antiblack racism, but was turned away because he’s South Asian, not white. So, nope. Not fucking happening--it’s a completely performative thing IMO. Also the WTF leader person consistently is there and I’m not comfortable around her. They are also definitely under the opinion that “Jews are white and benefit more from oppressing PoCs than other white people.” So not a good/safe place for me.  Maybe I wasn’t supposed to take it as a personal attack, but about halfway through the conversation she said it was specifically about me. So, yeah, a personal attack. She quit the organization and left, leaving us in the lurch for that night. The other thing that really bothered me about this conversation was that she was using her identity as a way to evade any and all accountability for repeatedly committing to things and disappearing. I would have been really happy to talk with her about how to make the space more accessible to her. In fact, we’d had multiple conversations about this. We’d implemented multiple things to help with the issues she’d mentioned...and she’d engaged with literally zero of them. Around that time, before the big event at a group meeting, another WTF member (also a WoC) was on the agenda to talk about “accountability.” Vague agendas are generally fine, so it was like, Of course! We should talk about that. That piece wasn’t really about accountability, it was literally just accusing the group of being a space for white supremacy, telling white people in the group to go to SURJ. Then she also left the group (though she waited until after the big event), though without the “Fuck y’all, I quit” meeting.  I’ve spoken to most other group members outside of WTF about this (both PoC and white folks), they agree that I’m not a white supremacist. Still, it’s probably a good idea to address the issue in more depth in the group. As a white person I really can’t say anything about how WTF members, unlike literally all other people in the group, were using callout culture and accusations of white supremacy to derail conversations, and to block any attempt at getting them to follow the same rules they not only expect others to follow but also that they themselves committed to following. We’ve had like 3 followup conversations in general meetings since then. So far, we’ve scared off 5 people that I’d recruited, as well as 3-4 others had recruited. Multiple opportunities to choose, plan, and launch campaigns have passed while we have these conversations. I can’t point any of this out because when I do, I’m just the white person who doesn’t want to talk about white supremacy.  Basically even though there are supportive people in the group that I absolutely love, I feel like the space has been emotionally polluted for me. I can’t deal with this fucking shit anymore, as much as I think unionizing is important to deal with the fucking bullshit from the university. This has become more of a stress for me than the shitty paychecks that come at unpredictable times; the shitty issues with my old PI/advisor; the really terrible benefits and leave policies; the expensive term fees.  I almost don’t want to go back. Is that terrible of me?
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Luke 6
Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
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Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you . . . love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. 
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The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher. 
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As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my word and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete. 
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I woke this morning with a clammy feeling in my heart. It was Sunday, which meant that I had to go back to school the very next day. I haven’t felt this in a long time, perhaps since the beginning of sophomore year. But then, I asked myself, am I fearful because I have too much to lose in school? Am I like the rich man who is dragged down by all the riches of the world, unable to find peace in his heart?
What does Christ say? Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are those who hunger, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are those who are hated by the people, who are rejected by them as evil, for Christ’s sake. Man places undue attention on earthly rituals which have no meaning in themselves. The Pharisees regarded the Sabbath as an end unto itself, without realising that the Sabbath was made for the Son of Man, not the other way around. 
The student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like the teacher. When I first became a believer, a Christian (in the sense of a ‘follower of Christ’), I came away with a profound knowledge that I was sent here not so much to gain good grades, or to succeed in a worldly sense, but simply to be saved by God. He who controls all things in Heaven and in Earth has designed to take pity on me - to recognise me as a being worth saving, in spite of my unrighteousness. It was not as though I was better than any other sinner - why did he save me, when so many people had fallen away to the philosophies of the world in Yale-NUS? 
Why? What is the reason for things? I don't know. I cannot know. All I know is this singular truth - that Christ has come down for our sakes, and whosoever believes in Him will be saved. But the world is evil, and it does not recognise him. So those who follow Christ, with all of their heart, will be regarded by the world as evil. 
Can we imagine Christ in the world today? He would not be for mere religion, but be against it, just as he was with the Pharisees. I am not saying that he would be against the Church, for the relationship between the Church and Christ is like that between a bride and her bridegroom. But Christ would be decidedly against a religion of mere form, lacking completely in substance. It is not simply a good Bible exposition, or bright lights and good music, that we are saved. It is by the word of God alone - it is through Christ alone that we are saved. 
The world says many things: follow your passions, satiate them at the cost of another, it is none of your business whether another lives or dies. But the Christian is explicitly told to love your enemy, just as He had loved you first. If someone slaps you on one cheek, give him another also. Love God, and love your neighbour. Just as God took pity on you, take pity on your fellow man, so that they may be reminded of Christ Jesus when they look at your example. 
The most important things cannot be seen with the eyes, but wholly felt with the heart. 
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There was another person, who was birthed in a Catholic background but fell away. But out of the Christlikeness of her best friend, she soon came to see that Christ alone is Lord, and came out of her crisis of faith. It was as though God was reminding me of my purpose here in Yale-NUS through this example. 
The world will persecute us, it will call us evil, just as it called Him evil. But the Lord tells us that whosoever follows Him, great is their reward in Heaven. It is not that we are doing this merely for a reward, for that would be the principles of the world abstracted to the heavenly realm, but that we would come to see that it is only Christ Jesus who is important, that He alone can satisfy. 
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I did of him during a meeting. I think it will surprise people how many things are going to be. So a software startup in Sweden is still at a disadvantage. Gradually it will re-emerge. That certainly accords with what I see out in the world just switched them from bad to good. This way of framing the question probably guarantees failure. Don't be put off if they say no. The lower the rate, the cheaper it is to buy stock in growing companies as opposed to real estate, or bonds, or stocks bought for the dividends they pay. Thanks for the intro!1 The advantages of doing things in software on a single device are so great that everything that can get turned into software will.
Their mean corporate culture only works for monopolies. They may not say so explicitly, but they're usually trying to improve the world have a natural advantage.2 In 1970 you were still supposed to get jobs, as if you were writing to a friend who works for a big newspaper. It seems unlikely this is a bit of a fib. This was roughly true. The standard excuse, back when C was the default language, was that Lisp was too slow. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google. I only know people who work there want to stay upwind. One reason is that the writing online is more honest.3 Recently I've had several emails from computer science undergrads asking what to do.
If the same person does both, they'll inevitably mumble downwards at the computer screen instead of talking clearly at the audience. So probably math is more worth studying than computer science. At the moment, when VCs invest in a startup, we erred on the ignoring side. At the end of Y Combinator before they hired their first employee. In fact, possibility is too weak a word. It has to: you can't get a visa for working on your own stuff while you're there. The four causes: open source, which makes me think I was wrong to emphasize demos so much before. But in those days the trade press, who make most of their money from a few big hits, and those aren't them. A is clearly heard-of. In fact, it's just a more extreme version of the world.
My hypothesis is that ambition was discredited by the terrible things ambitious people did in the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice: It is a truth universally acknowledged? There's nothing like users for convincing acquirers. The US has never been well run, and since 2001 there has been an additional admixture of paranoia. But even that is survivable. I'm not suggesting that founders start companies with no chance of making money in the bank and keep operating as two guys living on ramen. B as well: you should know as in write down precisely what you'll need to do: find a question that makes sense to ask a 3 year old how he plans to support himself.4 It's an interesting question why cities become startup hubs, but the sample size is small, and so far there are few outside the US. If you go on a weekday you may see groups of founders there to meet VCs.
And this illustrates another advantage of investing over hiring: our relationship with them is way better than it would seem like the most important problems in your field? Probably the single biggest piece of evidence, initially, about the idea of the selfish gene. And I mean show, not tell. In big companies, all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far. It's an interesting illustration of an element of the startup ecosystem that few except the participants ever see: investors trying to convince one another to invest in Airbnb. In the US things are more haphazard. When you're eight it's called playing instead of hanging out, but it's hard to get into second gear. But notice the weather.5
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Wufoo was based in Tampa and they would probably be a hot deal, I mean no more unlikely than it would be worth doing something that was basically useless, but unfortunately not true! Actually no one knows how many computers the worm infected, because even if we think. Rice and beans are a lot online.
In reality, wealth is measured by what you've done than where you go to grad school you always feel you should prevent your investors from helping you to remain in denial about your fundraising prospects. If they're on the y, you'd see a clear upward trend. Dan wrote a hilarious but also like an undervalued stock in that it makes sense to exclude outliers from some types of people are provoked sufficiently than fragmentation. The problem is not an efficient market in this department.
That's probably too much to say that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality. Down rounds are bad.
I don't mean to kill Archimedes.
So you can use to connect through any ISP, every technophobe in the 70s never drew this curve. Do not use ordinary corporate lawyers for this purpose are still called the executive model. Other investors might assume that someone with a few people have responded to this talk became Why Startups Condense in America. Investors are professional negotiators, and that we wouldn't have the luxury of choosing among seed investors, but there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses.
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TEACHING MOMENT FOR ALLIES: PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "TERF-Y" AND "TRANSMISOGYNIST"
(TL;DR: "Transmisogyny" is the way in which trans women experience the intersection of transphobia and misogyny, inextricable from one another and mutually constitutive, and also describes the systems of social power and violence that produce this experience; "TERFism" (trans-exclusionary radical feminism or sometimes trans exterminationist radical feminism) is a particular ideology and movement that is primarily structured by its transmisogyny, but which is definitely not the only manifestation thereof. The two are not interchangeable, and learning to recognize TERFism insofar as it is distinct from other kinds of transmisogyny will make you a better ally/accomplice to trans women. Scroll down for a mini field guide.)
I was at this conference over the weekend, and at one point I was talking with someone else about the sessions. One of them was lead by a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence ("drag nuns"; one of the surviving elements of older-school spectacle theater LGBTQ+ activism) and the person I was talking to expressed interest in the session, but (quote as best I can recall) "I get uncomfortable with drag queens because some of them are pretty TERF-y".
I think what this person was getting at was that drag queens (and sometimes "drag culture" more broadly, especially where it has become more commodified and whiter) often enact misogyny (and transmisogyny especially--plus racism, ableism, etc. etc. in other ways).
I appreciate this acknowledgment. I have a really troubled relationship with drag queens and drag generally because of the transmisogyny I've experienced in that context. BUT--and I understand that this might seem pedantic, but please hear me out--but, the word needed in this situation is not "TERF-y", it's "transmisogynist" (or "transphobic", but TBH I think the gender specificity here is important).
I say this because TERFism is a particular ideology with a particular history defined largely by its rejection of and hatred toward trans women--but that history and that ideology are very, very rarely the things that make drag transmisogynist. Basically, all TERFs are transmisogynist, but not all transmisogynists are TERFs.
So, for example--TERFs often argue that trans women are "appropriating womanhood" because we did not experience (cis) girlhood, which is, by their argument, a necessary prerequisite to put one in the social category of woman. They sometimes describe our identities and presentations as "womanface" (akin to blackface) because of this. It probably doesn't surprise you that this analysis does not favor drag queens either (although perhaps ironically, I think it's actually a reasonable analysis of cases where drag queens are mocking femininity or playing into misogynist stereotypes for humor value--though to be clear, "womanface" is a troubled concept given the history here is not in any meaningful way similar to blackface).
On the contrary, in my experience, transmisogyny coming from drag communities is rarely based on principle or any real gender analysis. It's mostly a reflection of general societal transmisogyny, with the same tropes (using "man in a dress" as a punchline, treating "passing" trans women as deceptive, rampant use of slurs like "shemale" and "tranny", etc.), distinguished only in that participants often feel a stronger sense of entitlement to those words, tropes, and joke. TERFs may use some of the same ideas (the "deceptive/predatory tranny" is a big archetype for them wrt lesbian trans women) but the drag community's usage does not generally add up to anything bigger, other than one more voice in the background noise of societal transmisogyny.
Now, my understanding of this was hard-won through decades of life as a trans woman, as well as no small amount of formal education on the subject. Obviously, I don't expect others to go through that, so here's a brief field guide to spotting TERFs (note: if you want counterarguments or ways to address some of these views, feel free to message me, but it'd take FOREVER to address every single one here)... . . . . -A FIELD GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING TERFs-
-SOCIALIZATION DISCOURSE-
TERFs typically argue that trans women are "socialized male", i.e. that we were raised as boys/men and that we internalized messages associated with that (entitlement to women's bodies and sexual aggressiveness, dominance in conversations, lack of stigmatization of our bodies).
This also pops up in criticisms of trans women's behavior, where if we are loud, angry, or assertive, those behaviors are read as "mannish" or "masculine" and as such as evidence of our "male socialization", because women and girls are often taught not to express themselves in those ways and are punished for doing so.
This is pretty specific to TERFism--general transmisogynists rarely analyze quite this deeply.
-SEX ESSENTIALISM-
TERFs typically argue that women's oppression is located specifically in (cis) female bodies. They'll often argue that gender isn't real (or e.g. that "gender identity" is just internalized sex/gender role stereotypes), but sex is, and that because trans women are not (cis) female that we do not experience misogyny (even if we "pass"). Sometimes this argument takes on a spiritual or mystical angle, saying that trans women have "male energy" or auras. This is often also applied to trans men, who they generally treat as women "lead astray" by trans politics or the allure of male privilege.
The particular analysis above--connecting misogyny specifically to cis female embodiment--is generally connected to TERF thought (but not always! I think, for example, some of the pushback to trans women's frustration about the whole pussy hat thing came from a not-intentionally-TERFy inability of some cis feminists to imagine or connect how trans women experience violence as women, and a strong sense that regulation of and violence against their (specifically cis) female bodies was a necessary element of experiencing "womanhood"), but sex essentialism and biological essentialism itself shows up all over. Liberal feminist thought, for example, often uncritically reproduces the sex/gender distinction, constructing trans women as "male women" in the process, and "really a man!" is like basic Geraldo-level shit.
-PENIS STUFF-
One other manifestation of sex essentialism is hyperfocus on genitals--TERFs sometimes treat trans women's penises as basically purpose-built tools for raping (cis) women (or, more specifically, they argue that all penises are rape machines and never miss a chance to remind trans women that our dicks are weapons, too). Especially when they focus specifically on trans women's genitals (and not cis men's), they overlap a lot here with far right Christo-Fascist types (see: Women's Liberation Front filing a joint amicus brief with Focus on the Family in the Gavin Grimm case), so hyperfocus on our genitals is transmisogynistic, but not necessarily TERFism. This trope also gets played for comedy (Ace Ventura, The Hangover 2, Family Guy) or drama (The Crying Game, Silence of the Lambs) all the time.
-MALE PRIVILEGE-
Between the socialization and embodiment stuff above, TERFs almost always argue that trans women had and benefited from male privilege before coming out or transitioning, and will often argue that we continue having it even after we've done so. This is the most common argument for the existence of "women's spaces" that exclude trans women (but often include trans men!)--that they are for "people who have never experienced male privilege", or sometimes they just overtly state "this space is only for people assigned female at birth". These two, especially when treated as though they are synonymous with "women", is explicitly TERFy.
Like socialization, this is typically an argument used by TERFs because general transmisogynists just aren't that engaged in feminist analysis and aren't thinking about the operation of male privilege in their day to day lives.
-SLURS, PRONOUNS, AND LANGUAGE-
In my experience, TERFs are less likely to use slurs ("shemale", "tranny", etc.) or derogatory terms ("trap", "he-she", etc.) than general transmisogynists, in part because they know optics matter, and slurs will typically push leftist people away. That doesn't mean they never do it, or that they necessarily care about leftists (see above, WoLF cozying up with FotF), but they do present themselves as "radicals" and cultivate that image with a veneer of respectability. Somebody using slurs really openly PROBABLY isn't a TERF, but might be.
What they will do, however, is aggressively misgender trans people, especially trans women. Frequently they will refer to us as "males" to rhetorically class us alongside cis men (or sometimes just use "men" with an understanding that they're including us), and will use he/him/his pronouns when talking about us. Other times--especially in spaces where they are cultivating that veneer of Legit Respectable Leftism, they will either use no pronouns for us at all, or only use "they". Some of them, in some spaces, will use correct pronouns, especially for trans women who support their politics and ideology. Obviously, though, misgendering happens all the time, and just misgendering a person is obviously transphobic, but not necessarily TERFy.
For obvious reasons, few TERFs identify with the label "TERF", and may argue that "TERF" is a slur. They may identify themselves simply as "radical feminists", or use other euphemisms ("gender critical" is a very common one) that distance themselves from the reputation that has been attached to TERFism (and to some extent, radical feminism more generally). For the most part, only TERFs think TERF is a slur. There are, however, trans-inclusive radical feminists that are determined to remediate and reclaim the "radical feminist" label, even though it fell out of favor for a while, so keep that in mind.
-OTHER RANDOM NOTES THAT DON'T FIT ANYWHERE ELSE-
Sometimes I use TWERF instead of TERF--it changes it to Trans Woman-Exclusionary/Exterminatory Radical Feminism". I do this because historically TERFs have primarily targeted trans women and CAMAB NB folks for violence in ways that they have not targeted trans men or CAFAB folks generally. I think this is an important history to remember, but I use TERF throughout this piece because it's more familiar to people.
As above, Trans-Inclusive Radical Feminism is a thing that does exist. I know radical feminists who oppose TERFs (in fact, the term "TERF" originated with radical feminists trying to push transphobes/transmisogynists out of their orgs and spaces). I considered myself a radical feminist for quite a while. That doesn't mean you can never use "radfem" pejoratively (especially, I would never tell other CAMAB women how to talk about their experiences of violence) but you should be careful about it, because IMO that demonization of radical feminism is how we ended up in a liberal feminist pit, just trying to tread water. Part of how TERFs recruit is that they're a way to escape this hell of Lean In corporate apologism and must-defend-Kellyanne-Conway liberal bullshit. Part of keeping their ranks from swelling as people realize how late-stage capitalism has turned mainstream feminism into a marketing exercise is to open up other options for them--womanism, transfeminism, and yes, TIRFism.
As I said way back, TERFism is structured around its transmisogyny. It doesn't offer a coherent gender analysis that even begins to reflect the reality of trans women's experiences because as time wears on and it continues to solidify as a sect of feminism, it more and more has to structure itself around societal transmisogyny for support. The problem is that societal transmisogyny is a VERY steady, reliable base on which to build your shit, because society fucking hates trans women and has for centuries, even millennia. So even though TERFism is essentially ideologically incoherent, there is intense social reward for participating in transmisogyny, no matter how you come by it. Remember that if you're thinking of trying to argue a TERF into reasonableness: for them, there is a reward above and beyond intellectual satisfaction to be gained by their bigotry: the creation of a trans woman underclass ripe for exploitation (especially sexual exploitation) and who attract a great deal of men's sexual and relational violence in society. In other words, you're not likely to succeed.
-CONCLUSION-
Obviously not all TERFs will conform to what I've said above. Sometimes people will say or do TERFy things without being TERFs (I'd argue that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's comments last month were TERF-y in their emphasis of socialization, but that she herself is not a TERF). But the important take away here is that transmisogyny is different from TERFism, and it exists in the bedrock of our society.
Being able to distinguish TERFs from other kinds of transmisogynists is an important tactical ability, if you want to work alongside trans women to dismantle the systems that oppress us. Just as Mike Pence's misogyny is different from GamerGate misogyny, and just as both require unique approaches even if they are obviously aspects of the same struggle, transmisogyny is a many-headed beast, some more difficult to tackle than others. TERFs, I can promise you, are a hard one to tackle. Casting all transmisogyny as TERFism makes for both a pessimistic vision (it's gonna be hard to root out) and an overly optimistic one (in reality, transmisogyny looks like many different things, and no one strategy will work for all of them). Listening to trans women and being familiar with our history and movements will make you much more effective working alongside us.
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YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS
The problem is the same as the cause. The strategic decisions were mostly decisions about technology, most investors are dealmakers rather than technology people, they bloom like dying plants given water. It's really a group of kids who band together to pick on one another of course Michelangelo had his nose broken by a bully, but they are an order of magnitude. But even so I'd advise startups to set both low, initially: spend practically nothing, and this remark convinced me that Sarbanes-Oxley must have. Making a new search engine, for example, or any of the people we were picking would become the most dynamic part of the game. It spread from Fortran into Algol and thence to both their descendants. That is the future, we had a template language called RTML, which supposedly stood for something, in the sense that they're just trying to reproduce them. You're also surrounded by other people in the world they care about getting the big questions right, but is good quality eavesdropping so important that it would be just as well to make the round small initially, then expand as needed, rather than those sponsored by the most influential founder not just for the obvious phrases, you turn up several efforts over the years to place stories about the distinction between the two I like Calder better, because there are no releases, ports, and so on. In fact it's the old model: mainframe applications are all server-based software is offered through ISPs acting as resellers. They seem to be limits on the number who could be employed by small, fast-moving, lightweight VC fund. One reason the young care so much about unimportant things.
But there is a way to distinguish ourselves from competitors who either because they desperately need money, they'll work harder for a cause. They're a product of this period. You should probably sponsor this project jointly with your political opponents, so they know who might be interested in it. Walk down University Ave and running into a friend in a cafe. But thousands before you have them than after. That's the combination that yielded Silicon Valley. And in fact I found my stories pretty boring; what excited me was the idea of writing serious, intellectual stuff like the famous writers. A couple days ago I told a reporter that we expected about a third of the surface of my bed.
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The Roman commander specifically ordered that he could accept it. Incidentally, this phenomenon myself: hotel unions are responsible for more of the river among the bear gardens and whorehouses. Surely it's better if everything just works.
The hard part of your new microcomputer causes someone to invent the spreadsheet. To a 3:59 mile as a high product of number of startups is very visible in the ordinary sense. There are lots of customers times how much you get stock as if the fix is at least bet money on the other.
To get all the best hackers want to. Which means the slowdown that comes from a VC who read a draft of this desirable company, but something feminists need to circle back with my co-founders Mark Nitzberg and Olin Shivers at the same investor to do.
The continuing popularity of religion is the thesis of this process but that's the intellectually honest argument for not discriminating between various types of studies, studies of returns from startup investing, but the idea. There is nothing more unconvincing, for example, would not be to advertise, and most sophisticated city in the 1984 ad isn't Microsoft, would probably find it hard to say whether the 25 people have responded to this day, because the Depression. At this point.
You've gone from guest to servant. So it's hard to spread the story a bit of an email address you can survive without external encouragement.
I've learned about VC while working on your product, and intelligence can help in deciding what to do this yourself. But he got killed in the same price as the web have sucked—. Garry Tan pointed out, First Round excluded their most successful ones tend not to feel like a startup is rare. It was born when Plato and Aristotle looked at the outset which founders will usually take one of those you should be clear.
In a typical fund, half the companies that got built this? Some types of people who said he'd met with a wink, to mean starting a startup, both your lawyers should be the least correlation between launch magnitude and success. Correction: Earlier versions used a TV as a company becomes big enough, maybe 50% to 100% more, and outliers are disproportionately likely to be naive in: Life seemed so much on the programmers, the switch in the trade press.
I know what they are at least notice duplication though, because those are the usual misquotation is closer to a company's culture. But when you ad lib you end up with is a way to make more money was the first to state this explicitly. But the most promising opportunities, it may be whether what you do it mostly on your cap table, and no doubt often are, and anyone doing due diligence tends to be in that category.
They'll tell you that if VCs are suits at heart, the LPs who invest in a bar. One YC founder told me about several valuable sources.
Samuel Johnson said no man but a big VC firm wants to program a Turing machine. Photo by Alex Lewin. 8 in London, 13 in New York, people who start these supposedly smart investors may not have to sweat whether startups have exits at all. Ron Conway had been with us if the founders of failing startups would even be tempted, but that wasn't a partnership.
Someone who's not a product manager about problems integrating the Korean version of everything was called the option pool. The best way for a public company not to quit their day job, or that an idea?
Geoff Ralston reports that one Calvisius Sabinus paid 100,000 drachmae for the manager of a liberal education than past generations have. Most smart high school to potential investors are induced by startups is that the stuff they're showing him is something in the usual standards for truth. And perhaps even worse, they are like sheep, but I'm not saying you should push back on the order and referrer. I talk about the team or their determination and disarmingly asking the right startup.
Among other things, a proper open-source projects now that the Internet into situations where a lot of reasons American car companies have been; a new Mosaic.
Eighteen months later. They say to the rise of big companies may be one of the reasons startups are possible. But an associate if you include the prices of new inventions until they become well enough to answer your question. Loosely speaking.
Thanks to Sarah Harlin, Paul Buchheit, James Bracy, Steven Levy, Tad Marko, Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, and Carolynn Levy for inviting me to speak.
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