I have a few questions for all of you as you process this news which, importantly, is only news because the perpetrator never made a public post about what they did (which couldve been done without outing the victim), as should be standard protocol, and this is just how long it took for the Nattily to gather the courage to make this public. Which women have access to greater recognition of the gendered violence they face? Pay attention to the types of gender violence that specifically hurt women who are constantly forced to be fighting the relentless enforcement of the gender they were coercively assigned at birth. By pay attention, I mean listen to trans women, the people who experience this, because that is the only way to learn. How might you be upholding, contributing to, and even profiting from this violence in your day-to-day life? How are you implicated in the violence Nattily has experienced stemming from her assault? Why do people complicit in transmisogyny attempt to express solidarity in a way that implies their own shared experience/understanding as if they dont also actively participate in these behaviors and aggressions? This is about more than just an isolated incident. Why do the vast majority responses to this focus on what this will do to the community and/or the perpetrator rather than what effect this has had on the victim over the past three years and now that she has made it public? Why is there fear that rape culture has been, can be, or is somehow currently being so powerfully overturned that the consequences of assault could or would outweigh the harm caused by assault? Why does that fear drive active derailment and de-centering of Nattilys experience? What would it look like if peoples reactions were actually focused on what is appropriate rather than what is socially expected, acceptable, and safe?
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:25:02 +0000
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