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elia cugini | media & culture writer, prettyboy | contributor @_VashtiMedia | writing @thebafflermag @dazed &c | autofiction phd student @UoMSALC | he/him

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i talked to the wonderful Shon Faye about the state of trans politics in the UK, strategy & resistance, for the 5th anniversary of The Transgender Issue: dazeddigital.com/life-cultur…

Shon Faye: ‘I worry about the threat of far-right politics in the UK’

Five years since the publication of The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, the bestselling author reflects on the state of trans liberation in the UK

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wrote about how the new hospital wards policy in the NHS entrenches mistreatment, & concentrates anti-trans power in places where trans people are trapped or incapacitated xtramagazine.com/power/polit…
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like as one of the few trans people who is in both t4c and t4t relationships at the same time, i think a lot of you are so wrapped up in obsessions with social status / performing Correct gender / moralising sexual accessibility that you’re all Freaks to each other
eli is free@uncanny_eliOct 24
need everyone to get more normal about t4c AND t4t IMMEDIATELY
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the additional status granted to those with cis partners is shitty, but can easily be accompanied by a revocation of gender. gay t4c is gender jeopardy central. straight t4c meanwhile is the ‘gold standard’ gender confirmation wise but carries a corollary risk of violence
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meanwhile if you’re t4t people will yell at you in public and at least one of your families will accuse you of having inducted each other into the Trans CultTM. so there are differences but we are all in the bucket together for fuck’s sake
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halloween party og costume idea fell through so went with plan b: cracking out the hot pink acrylic paint and proceeding to Junko It
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‘funny looking afabs daily’ alright wrap it up
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need everyone to get more normal about t4c AND t4t IMMEDIATELY
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lesbians are like trans people bc there’s constant infighting there about ‘oh this girl’s a lesbian? but she thought about/dated/fucked/married a man and i could NEVER have done that, i’d have thrown up and DIED, so she must be faking it’ like yeah that’s one of ours sorry
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lesbians gain limited recognition through professing an intolerance to men; trans people gain limited recognition through professing an intolerance to their birth assignment which means they get tetchy if other trans people do PIV or wear clown makeup or whatever
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maybe one day we’ll collectively figure out that this approach doesn’t work that well
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first piece out since i finished my thesis! i wrote about the victoria's secret rebrand and its strange new position within contemporary fashion culture dazeddigital.com/fashion/art…

Are we all being fooled by the Victoria’s Secret rebrand?

It’s difficult to know what to feel about Victoria’s Secret in 2026, as the brand makes some gestures towards inclusivity while still upholding an outdated but alluring fantasy

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also lmao this is being screened as adult content on bluesky
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i am 2 hours in to the extremely inadvisable essay which i think might end up being the entry point to some research
eli is free@uncanny_eliOct 21
people are consistently such freaks about trans men and sex i am getting this | | close to writing an extremely inadvisable essay about it
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people are consistently such freaks about trans men and sex i am getting this | | close to writing an extremely inadvisable essay about it
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like we have quite recently developed a sexual economy to metabolise the growing specificity of how we are sexually characterised in culture & the shame of that and the response to that is generally ‘oh goody! more shame!’
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officially back to my journalism job this week, open for commissions, just interviewed one of my favourite filmmakers. nature healing, etc.
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going to start chucking out some books, film, games, trans policy and sexual culture pitches soon as i also start applying for jobs for 2027. reminder that i am hopefully 1 viva off being dr autofiction if you want any work on that whole metadocumentary business
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think i’m gonna do a bit of livetweeting and substack stuff soon as well
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trans people are tarred as both gay and straight without receiving the social benefits or legibility of either side, meanwhile both sides will pretty happily chuck us under the bus to protect their power (straightness) or their integrity under duress (gayness)
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accordingly i think there kind of has to be a multi pronged attack where we are actively fighting for our space in all sexuality categories but where we understand that we are often relegated to the bin of sexuality, i.e. a politicised bisexuality (even if you’re not bi)
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