I finally got around to seeing "I Saw The TV Glow", and it definitely lived up to the hype.
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I'm reading Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt and it's so good, but also how do you go about your day normally after realising by being a trans woman you're a revolutionary in a war against the heterosexual occupation of gender that has lasted over five thousand years?
Reading this book has made me think my transfeminism is equally as important as my Marxism-Leninism in ways that intersect, compliment and diverge at times.
Like the relationship between Juche and Marxism-Leninism.
have completely agreed with this for some time, transfeminism and gender accelerationism must be an integral part of any revolutionary neo-Marxism fit to carry us forward into a better world. dialectical philosophy in general has been super helpful for me to build my conception of my self and my gender too.
Definitely I was sort of working things out by applying dialectical materialism to gender, but the book managed to summarise stuff I was already seeing the shape of.
Ok but what is the relationship between Juche and Marxism-Leninism? Because I've tried to wrap my head around it a few times and always struggle.
(Also, Juche Gender, let's fucking gooo!)
It's kind of like how in South East Asia many religions can be complimentary with another. You can be a Buddhist or a Taoist or both together
Juche is a materialist philosophy of self determination based of the Korean people's cultural history and experience. It is not contradictory to ML or DiaMat (or at least mostly)
Think two significantly overlapping circles on the venn diagram. The DPRK uses both. Like if you'd discovered calculus one way and another person showed you their way. Each with some separate extra bits and idiosyncrasies.