Photo by Andreas Filla, taken at the Berlin Pride Parade 1994. CC-BY-SA
Hi my trans siblings!
I'm late writing this mega this week, I had hoped to do more research but maybe I can add stuff and re-write this as the week goes on.
This time I'd like to share some information I stumbled across about 20th century trans icon Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. She was born in the Weimar Republic in 1928 and survived Nazi Germany to make it as the most prominent trans woman that I'm aware of in the DDR (GDR or East Germany). There she ran the Gründerzeit museum, dedicated to the founding period of the German Empire and the period of its industrialization. The museum ended up becoming a popular hotspot for the gay and I presume trans and queer scene in the DDR.
She was politically active, having been an unofficial informant of the Stasi which ideally I'd love more information on. Was she helping them identify Nazis? Surely being a trans woman would've lured a lot of reactionaries out from behind their masks in her presence. In fact, after the DDR was taken over by the BRD (West Germany) in 1990, it only took about one year before one of the parties she threw at the museum was the target of a neo-Nazi attack, at which point she announced she was considering leaving Germany. She eventually moved to Sweden in 1997, where I believe she lived the rest of her life.
She died of natural causes at the age of 74 during a visit to Berlin in 2002.
This has been more or less a summary of the Wikipedia article on her where I did check some sources, but I really want to learn more about her. I only learned of her in the past couple days, and there is a film about her from 1992 called I Am My Own Woman, by Rosa von Praunheim.
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Never trust a cissie, not even on hexbear. They will betray you.
People on here posting transphobia hits different and gives me a whole other level of hopelessness
Edit: oh, and it's a multi comm mod!
Yeah, i feel that. I try to work with what i have, to focus on the people closest to me and put my energy into keeping us safe and happy, but it's painful how this kinda limits my solidarity.
It's painful for me because of how we are treated. People genuinely don't deserve my solidarity I hope they choke and die
I'm so sick of 90%+ of people being dogshit bigots. DEATH TO TRANSPHOBES
There's a couple cis people in my life who are chill. I love them very much, they will - and do - support me. Right up until its too inconvenient or visible.
The fact that he felt this was a good place to repost that transphobic garbage is just wild. Cis "allies" fumble the most simple tests of solidarity.
Did something happen? :(
The post has been removed by now, but somebody thought it was ok to repost a transmisogynist standup routine because the targeted trans woman in the audience worked for the MIC.
Edit: It's this thread in case anybody is wondering https://hexbear.net/post/8360183
having some cis dude on stage in front of a room full of people asking you for your pronouns is like a scenario from my nightmares
Ooh ew, ppl rly will take any excuse to be transmisogynists
6 days later and I must still scroll back to this comment after all these fucking contra posts smdh