a feminism of the monstrous

[sqbr]

Following on from my post about monster women and again via the_school_of_philosophy: the seam of skin and scales, in which a trans woman refuses to be see her body as a trap.

She doesn't mention disability explicitly, but almost everything she says rang very true for me, and trans people and disabled people are both very much left on the outskirts of white-young-feminist ideas about "loving your body". (In different ways of course, and I don't mean to flatten out the differences, especially since my disabilities are frequently invisible)

I am having a very interesting discussion with capriuni on a post she made about disability and monstrousness, and realised it may not be entirely a coincidence that I felt like drawing monster girls shortly after starting to go out more in my wheelchair and having to deal with the way that makes people look at me (and the way it makes me look at myself).

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I don't want to flatten the differences neither, but some of the trans people I've met are "invisibly" different as well: until they decide to explain how their gender is atypical, there's no evidence.

(I'm chuffed you & capri0mni have shared thoughts, because I'm mind-zero about monsters (don't know anything at all). Y'all figure it out and explain to me :,)

[sqbr]

Hmm. I was going to say "but they know" but I guess if they've had surgery etc they really can fit the typical expectations of physical appearance for their gender reasonably well. Though there's that knowledge that if people knew they were trans they would get looked at funny, which I don't have to deal with. Still, good point.