(and yeah, there is something to be said about removing it rather than changing categories, but even if it is the book of diseases saying it, it's still good that what is being said is "transness, not a disease")
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(and yeah, there is something to be said about removing it rather than changing categories, but even if it is the book of diseases saying it, it's still good that what is being said is "transness, not a disease")
(not just in my country btw, but I have lived experience here) I think my point stands. The CID change wasn't euphemistic, it did have very concrete effects for at least a whole country. Because it wasn't just words, it was de-pathologizing.
You heard someone say "it worked where I live" and answered with "it didn't work for me, so it's useless". You mention "the overall lack of tangible progress", does the very tangible progress I saw in my country just not count, for whatever reason?
And the conclusion for "it made a difference here, it didn't make a difference there" is not "it's useless euphemism", but rather "it works, sometimes". The recognition of tactics that work sometimes is, in my opinion, important, and the expectation of a perfect solution, unrealistic.
I know folks from the militancy who fought for those changes and I know how important it was for them to have a reputable source backing them up. This isn't in the realm of expectations, it's in the realm of I know the difference it made and still makes.
Sorry, I've been thinking about this. What I was saying isn't "there should have been", but rather there is. I live that progress, it had concrete effects in my life. I transitioned right after the change hit and saw the orientations change from "you need psych approval" to "informed consent".
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(and I'm sorry that you don't/didn't) (which is probably why you have that opinion, I guess)
I actually do =/ (which is why I have this opinion, I guess)
Even if it's a political win. It's still a win. And it was absolutely shaped by politics. In this case, trans-positive politics. Not a bad or unimportant thing at all.
Scientific consensus is fabricated, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter, much to the contrary. So scientific consensus that transness is okay and not a disease is a pretty big win, even if not an eternal or immutable one.
yeah, but it's still a twist, it still takes some doing. And as easy as it is to twist it, it's way easier to cite it as its clear original intent.
Following the DSM is absolutely obviously political (tho that doesn't stop it from happening), but following the UN or international treaties on human rights does pass as way more neutral though.
(I didn't mean to imply you were in the US, it just ocurred to me that the US has, or is a side in that one) (the UN and international treaties on human rights *do* affect the rest of the world tho) (I mean, the US also does affect the rest of the world, no sense pretending otherwise, but yeah)
But yeah, most of that change was seen in more open-minded countries, not in the imperial core.
My point was, the CID change did lead to a lot of tangible change, even if it didn't translate to a complete annihilation of transphobic practices all around the world.
It's a way different fight if the militancy is saying "you have to give us rights because we say so" or "you have to give us rights because there's an international consensus about it and human rights professionals all over the world agree with us and here's our very public and established sources"
I still think it makes a difference to have an international consensus on "transness is not an illness", even if I do agree it's not always (or often) followed. I still think it's important though. It is not policy, but it helps shape policy.
Unless you're in the US, in which case you're just under DSM and, well, yeah. I guess this wouldn't make a difference, because the US is just fucked.
And the fact that one of them (DSM/US) says transness is an ilness while the other (CID/UN) says transness is just a characteristic also matters a lot.
There's a reason why people trying to fuck with that point to "gender dysphoria" and not "gender incongruence". The different definitions set by some of the world's dominant powers (the UN and the US) do matter a lot in shaping policy.
Like, I am categorized as nothing. Just a person. Most of my documents are identical to a cis person's. Why? Because policy in here was shaped by the notion that transness is just a thing, not a disease. And having CID codify that helped a hell of a lot with that.
DSM puts it as a mental illness, which justifies the need for psychiatrists and psychologists. That difference between mental illness or sexual characteristic is essential.
And, again, the regulation of transition *is* the pathologizing of it. If you take from CID's current definition, transness is just a sexual characteristic, so it makes no sense to require medical professionals to regulate it.
Like I mentioned, "gender dysphoria" comes from the DSM which pathologizes it. I don't think "transsexualist" is really used nowadays, but "gender incongruence" would indicate CID, which de-pathologized the definition.
Yeah, what matter more is policy, not the words. The words just help indicate which policy you're under.
(like in sex/gender. They're synonyms and often it doesn't really matter which one you use, but, for instance, when my college allowed me to change my gender but not my sex in its systems, we had a problem) (the fact they had separate entries for sex and gender was already a problem, but I digress)
Anyway, I agree the words by themselves don't matter much, it's like sex/gender, but I think the difference in intent, specifically between choosing the DSM or the CID definition, especially when it comes to policy making, is essential.
The difference matters to the point that it affected policy making over here, with a certain medical entity trying to limit surgeries and access to blockers and hormones specifically noting the DSM definition, since the CID one doesn't justify interfering in one's own health decisions.
Transness as pathology vs transness as just a sexual characteristic is a huge difference.
To put it simply, in 2018 CID moved to classify gender incongruence as not a pathology, while DSM still classes it as a pathology to this day. DSM is "mad trans" diagnosis, while CID is "regular trans" non-diagnosis. (CID moved trans stuff from "mental diseases" to "sexual health")
Idk, like @pola.bsky.social mentioned, gender incongruence is an ICD/CID thing, and although the word itself doesn't mean much, the difference between it and "gender dysphoria" on the DSM is pretty important, actually.
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Is no one talking about it over there, or is it just that I'm not seeing it? (quite possible, tbh)
and there are reports of folks saying people have trouble being in the same room as him because of the smell. That he's quite literally rotting from the inside), but I haven't seen a single mention of it from folks in the US.
Also, if you don't mind me asking, I'm kinda curious, because over here (Brasil) we have had open and clear news for a while now that he's on death's bed (more specifically, he seems to be in the same condition as a spanish king that died horribly
I mean, it's probably gonna happen pretty soon anyway.
I love drawing this stupid rat.
Also, the whole language as colonization thing is even worse in portuguese, since "clear" as "easy to understand", for instance, becomes "claro" which also means "light", so on top of the "vision as truth" aspect, there's a more direct correlation to "white as true".
Anyway, it was interesting because it added an extra layer to the whole thing and gave me some insight as to the translator's political position regarding the book (a good one, it seems).
Such as which parts to translate or not translate and trying to avoid using masculine as neutral, since portuguese is a language that genders *everything* (a nation is a woman, but a country is a man, btw) and masculine is neutral (if there's 100 women and 1 man in a crowd, it's "them (male)"
Another peculiar addition, if I might, is that I read the portuguese version of the book and that one has a whole two pages from the translator warning about how regular translation issues are extra important in a book that problematizes language itself and what he did to try to dimish that.
Anyway, for whoever chances upon this and is interested, the author is Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and the book is: "The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses."
It points out that western society has built social norms on top of biological and anatomical characteristics; "Biological determinism provides the basic logic for the social world's organization" "The presence or not of certain organs determines one's social position"
(I'm still at the start, which is mostly criticism of western understandings of sex/gender. I read theory somewhat slowly)
The book itself centers around discussing women in african societies (more specifically, yoruba society), and also does a really interesting deconstruction of sex/gender the way we understand it in western society.
Which is incredibly relevant for how both racism and the patriarchy works.
In the book, the author talks about, for instance, how western society tends to associate vision with truth, with the translator mentioning how most western languages use "I see" as "I understand" and "clear" as "easy to understand", which reinforces the notion that what is visible is what matters.
Hey, sorry if not completely related, but this reminded me of a book I'm reading that mentions how language itself is part of colonization. (something we need to understand if we're doing decolonization)
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Oh, nevermind, I'm checking and it's a bit more complicated, it seems. I think they're removing AI Mode/AI Overview in english to introduce AI Mode/AI Overview in portuguese over here.
Oh, and if I go to google.com/aimode, it tells me it's not available on my device or account.
(I also tried on different browsers, with adblock/plugins on and off, and no AI overview for me)
For me it just stopped appearing completely, but I'm accessing from Brazil which might have something to do with it. (I searched Judith Butler and Obama and both had only what used to be there, like images, the wikipedia summary, books, 'people also ask', and then just links to sites)
(then again, iirc, most of what I've read from you is just good and happy, so it's probably fine to worry less about content warnings)
But I also think using broader cw (such as "body horror" or "explicit content") is ok when you're unsure of the specifics or don't want to go too much into details.
(also of note, the genre, title, cover, sinopsis and introduction to a story help serve some of the purpose of cw. If I'm reading a story about vampires, a cw about blood might not be necessary, so I'd be prepared for *that* with no cw)
Regarding what you mentioned though, I think some stories do need cw, especially those that go (bad/hard) places you wouldn't expect. If I go into a story that seems chill and doesn't have any cw, I actually go in prepared for nothing more than a chill time ^^'
Anyway, end of the day I think my conclusion was that content warnings are just an indication, and will never be perfect.
Then I showed it to someone else, telling them it was body / psychological horror, but that it seemed it was pretty light and that person complained to me that I hadn't warned them properly, because that was extremely heavy horror for them.
There's a (short, unfinished) story I wrote, for instance, that I call body/psychological horror. But the first person I showed it to told me it wasn't horror at all, that for them it was extremely chill.
Regarding this, I've considered whether broader cw could work for that a bit. A problem I've hit upon myself though is that the appropriate content warnings can vary from person to person, kinda?
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A dictionary helps, of course, and knowing another latin language also does. I found some argentinian modern horror when I was first learning, then after that got some more leisure fantasy books that eased me into feeling comfy with the language.
If you like the genre, in my experience reading horror helps a ton. (from books you know are reasonably well-written) As a genre, there's a lot conveyed through context, so you can keep going even if you miss a word or two, and the process will help you start to get the words you don't know.
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New art? In this economy?
Oh, and MoteMancer is a factory game where you use elemental magic (life, water, fire...) on machines to make stuff. Definitely magi and also tech. Anyway, actually gonna go sleep now.
Mudborne is definitely frog magitech, and it's cute and happy and very gender in a not gender kinda way. Frog magi-tech-farming-genetics-faith, but still. A lot of the tech is either craft or biology related tho. Since you mentioned FFX, I assume you want battle magitech, none of that here tho. =/
I'll maybe have a think on it tomorrow and come back with more recent examples, I know there's way more, but i won't remember them sleepy on prog lol (oh, Shadowrun? Tho it's more cyber-religion, actually) (Shadowflare, lol. Steampunk tho)
It's hard not to mention FF6/3, but you probably know about that one and it is kinda steampunk magitech. (though it is a lot of things, such as learning a samurai's backstory in a ghost train, and also a master class on how to make the most hateable character ever (Kefka))
Like, sounding fancy is part of how oppression works, and requiring people to sound fancy in order to discuss important issues is just pure elitism. Knowing how to talk about complicated topics using simple language is an invaluable skill, actually.
That if your teaching methods can't be understood by marginalized folks, that's on you, not them. There's a whole part of his work that is basically "working class people will absolutely discuss theory with you (academic) on your level as long as you treat them as people on the same level as you".
And Freire is literally all about "education must be accessible", most of his work is based off of his experiences teaching marginalized groups and talks about how "simple" people aren't stupid.
But Fanon was directly involved in pretty much everything he preached about, and clearly had his work grounded in his own lived experiences. I would dare say that outside of the imperial core, Fanon is probably more important than Marx. (yes, I know his work builds upon and critiques Marx's)
I think part of it is that theory (in politics/humanities) only works when it's connected to reality. I really like, for instance, Frantz Fanon and Paulo Freire. (I'm biased, I'm from Brasil and Freire is the "patron" of our education system, but yah)
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good stuff ^^
(and if I got this correctly, I should also have the freedom to implement my own payment processors, if I know how? In my case, for instance, the ones I'm interested in implement OpenAPI and are pretty well documented, so it would be pretty doable. Again, let me know if I'm wrong)
And if I understood correctly, you're not actually going to process the payments, just help with the tech and, more importantly, build the web of sites, so to speak, so the payment would go straight to us which means no taxes or whatever related to you. Let me know if I'm wrong.
I'm still curious as to whether this is a US-based storefront, but from a quick glance, it seems I'd be able to have local payment options through "emerchantpay", at least.
Then again, you seem to claim a fair amount of freedom for each website, so maybe having local payment methods could be an option.
My guess is you'll end up with a specific list of payment methods which will likely not include options from outside your country and that you'll process the payments, which means yes, I'll have to pay taxes to your country.
On that front, Steam has a big advantage because they have offices in most countries, so if I sell my games through them, I only pay local taxes, not to mention it's easier for costumers who can use local payment methods. Custom prices for specific countries is also a big plus.
For instance, one of the bigger problems with Itch for me, personally, is that I have to pay taxes to the US (extra because I'm not a citizen), I have to use US-based payment methods and deal in dollars for everything.
Hi, if you don't mind me asking, is this a US-based storefront, and regardless of that, how do you plan to interact with creators from outside your country, especially regarding payment methods?
I think he's trying to head towards 140% approval rating.
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It's good stuff. I considered summarizing it here, but it started getting way too long and bsky isn't good for that kind of stuff. This is the document, btw: www.mpf.mp.br/ac/sala-de-i...
Another important note is that they said that any changes to the 2019 resolution (the good one) must necessarily be preceded by debate and deliberation with the participation of, at least, all of the entities involved in its creation. So no going "the UK and the USA said it, so we're doing it".
CFM said MPF can't do shit for a couple reasons, included those cited above. MPF called bullshit on that and ordered the Union to suspend the effects of the resolution with urgency. (yes, since CFM was refusing to listen, they just told the ministry of health, SUS and such to make it happen)