Erin Elkin

@shadell.itch.io

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Disaster trans woman with a PhD in media studies. I write stuff sometimes. (she/her) Buy my book: https://linktr.ee/Shadell13

Skeet’s first asking if hormones are immutable, followed by a random terf responding “If you mean "hormone contents of an organism's bloodstream", no. The genetic body plan encoded in a human's cells? Yes.”
Meme of two people grasping hands in solidarity. One is labeled "Sheila Jeffries", the other is labeled "Forcefem mindbreak doujins" Over their hands, text reads "feminine sexed embodiment is so inherently tempting and corrosive that any engagement risks permanent corruption.
A Meitantei Precure Conspiracy Prediction Bingo Board: Squares include: Cure Eclair secretly named after pastry Phantom thieves hang out as mascots after losing Kurea=Ex-Eclair (but not new) Usonoir grown up Pochitan Everyone takes turns as Eclair Usonoir = Emiruru's child from doomed future Anna is Mikuru's Mom Anna is also Anna's other mom Eliza writes the book of prophecies Pochitan + Makoto Jewel = king of ruin Usonoir = Future Jett CONAN RETURNS AS 5th CURE Free! (Mikuru is Anna's Mom) Jett shows up at school for Parent-Teacher Conference Phantom Thieves ex-London Office Nijee and Ageseine are quietly motivated by dysphoria Shiruku= Shushutan THERE IS NO LONDON OFFICE Nijee one off Precure Jett does 9/11 Usonoir from the future Arcana Shadow is an actual traitor Pochitan closed timeloop Usonoir is Mikuru's missing dad London Office are the real Villains
Instead, recent scholarship has typically treated the ‘lesbian transsexual’ as largely hypothetical despite robust contrary evidence. Jules Gill-Peterson notes the ‘ample evidence that desire between femmes played a central role in trans social life’ prior to the 1970s, but due to many of these relationships being between transvestites assigned male at birth and non-trans women, they are often simplistically reduced to heterosexuality.16 Gill-Peterson proposes a reading strategy that refuses a rigid separation of gender identity from sexual orientation, which if followed can attune historians to the many historical trans femmes who were involved in tacitly lesbian relationships. While a valuable counter to lesbian trans femme opacity in the historical record, such an intervention overlooks the presence of the many self-described lesbians who were not cis that were active in the mid-twentieth century.
"Some months ago I met a young w
Treating the three models as independent coders, Krippendorff's alpha (interval) reaches 0.84 on conflict framing and 0.83 on trans voice centrality — above the conventional 0.80 reliability bar — with 0.71 on care stance, 0.71-0.76 across the other voice dimensions, and 0.52-0.70 on topics. Pairwise correlations between Claude and Qwen run 0.72-0.94 across dimensions. More importantly, every directional finding (the era trends) replicates on each model individually — the models disagree about exact magnitudes, never about direction.
Every article is scored independently by three AI models from three unrelated labs: Anthropic's Claude Haiku, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, and Alibaba's open-weights Qwen 2.5 32B running locally on consumer GPU hardware via Ollama. All three receive the identical rubric (versioned prompt, currently v3) and identical article text at temperature 0, and return ~20 dimensional scores in four groups: Topic (0-10): medical, legal, cultural, violence, personal, science, politics, international, youth focus Framing Direction (-5 to +5): skepticism → affirming, restrictive → protective Framing Tone (0-10): conflict framing, pathologizing, both-sides treatment, alarmist tone, normalizing Voice / Sourcing (0-10): trans voice, expert voice, advocate voice, opponent voice (narrative weight, not mere quotation) The rubric's central instruction separates what happened from how it's covered: framing scores measure the article's own tonal and structural choices — loaded language, whose terminology becomes the unmarked default, source ordering and narrative weight, what's treated as settled vs. contested — not the valence of the event being reported. A neutral report on a trans-protective ruling scores 0, not positive. The open-weights model matters for reproducibility: cloud models change and get retired, but anyone with a GPU can re-run Qwen with pinned weights and check our numbers.
Screenshot from the anime Dead Mount Death Play where the prime minister of Japan is kidnapped and reads Murcielago.
Photo showing that "Amoura" plans to launch with "ID and photo verification required on every profile."
"Que, ever since we put on these outfits, you've been avoiding eye contact and mumbling things I can't even make out." "B-Because I've been trying to find the perfect way to say how I feel... but every time I think of something, I get too embarrassed to say it out loud" "If you've got something to say, just say it. Once filming starts, it'll be too late." "Okay, then I'll just say it! This outfit looks so good on you, so good that...! don't even know where to look, ahaha." • • • !.Thelema? Why don't you talk?" Since they met, this was the first time the girl had looked away from her. "You said exactly what I was going to say, no need for me to repeat it," she murmured.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-do-gender-transitions-happen/ “For as long as trans people operate in the face of a capitalist state, we will break in two directions: atomized struggle and the fashioning of a trans-specific mode of civil society. Trans people oscillate not only out of their atomized state but often enough back into it: many of our worst traumas are inflicted by other trans people, and many drop out of activism with an embittered set of scare quotes placed around the words "trans community." Every petty corruption, frustrationm and normativity-enforcing eccentricity finds itself empowered by the raw necessity of communal work to avoid trans life becoming heteronymous to the whims and outdated protocols of state provision. In other words, to exist on our own terms immediately follows through into ferocious rows about exactly who "we" are. The result is that trans communities are despised and relied upon by trans people in equal measure, and for the exact same reason. These ever-imperfect and ad hoc circles of shared interest are the best (and worst) stopgap against the total immiseration provided by the existing capitalist division oflabor. Surpassing this divide requires a new movement, which we so far have only the haziest picture of: an anti-capitalist struggle fully responsive to, and in part growing out of, the existing struggles waged to secure our basic subsistence.”
Excerpt from Fisher’s Exiting the Vampire Castle: The fourth law of the Vampires’ Castle is: essentialize. While fluidity of identity, pluraity and multiplicity are always claimed on behalf of the VC members – partly to cover up their own invariably wealthy, privileged or bourgeois-assimilationist background – the enemy is always to be essentialized. Since the desires animating the VC are in large part priests’ desires to excommunicate and condemn, there has to be a strong distinction between Good and Evil, with the latter essentialized. Notice the tactics. X has made a remark/ has behaved in a particular way – these remarks/ this behaviour might be construed as transphobic/ sexist etc. So far, OK. But it’s the next move which is the kicker. X then becomes defined as a transphobe/ sexist etc. Their whole identity becomes defined by one ill-judged remark or behavioural slip. Once the VC has mustered its witch-hunt, the victim (often from a working class background, and not schooled in the passive aggressive etiquette of the bourgeoisie) can reliably be goaded into losing their temper, further securing their position as pariah/ latest to be consumed in feeding frenzy.
Screenshot from the manga Idolatry featuring a girl with her hands wrapped around another’s neck saying: “If I told you “I love you” and then proceed to kill you, would you smile and tell me that’s a wonderful reason too?”
Page of top selling books on Itch, showing A Little Vice in the second place; followed by WARHOUND and Magica Riot in 3rd and 4th respectively.
Screenshot from Instagram, of an NYT story about how John Lithgow plays a lot of diverse roles (and once played a trans woman in "The World According to Garp," but wouldn't be able to do that today.)
Manga page showing one of the protagonists summoning a knife from his chest. The other announces that “the source of a Maga’s special powers is their blood. Al was born with that blood. A child born between Maga and man.”
A My 9 Games screenshot showing that the games that make me are Honkai Star Rail, Hollow Knight, 9 Sols, Wrath of the Righteous, Hexcells, Arknights, FFXIV, Timespinner and Nier Automata
Scene from Journal with Witch, a currently airing anime featuring Makio, an adult, looking through her DVD collection and saying "I'm not sure if you'll like it," as she selects a DVD to give to one of her ward's friends.
Edit screen from google docs showing "Appendix K" where K is a suggested replacement for J, indicating that the number of appendices keeps increasing.
Screenshot of a gothicmade from the movie Gothicmade/the Five Star Stories universe.
Screenshot of the anime Minami-ke featuring local force fem victim “Mako-chan” happily wearing a skirt
In the case of clergy, to transcend the dualities of sex and gender was an aspiration. But even as clergy understood the main social boundary as dividing them collectively from the laity, they remained aware of the difference of sex among themselves. This is especially clear for Buddhists, who maintained rigid sex segregation in their institutions, but it can also be seen in the elaborate efforts of Daoists to overcome that difference, the disciplines of their "internal alchemy" differing by sex. Moreover, the terminology used to refer to clergy consistently differentiated by sex, as can be seen in the language of the Qing code, which uses distinct gendered nouns for Buddhists (sengren for monk, niseng for nun) and Daoists (daoshi and nüguan), respectively. For all of these reasons, it makes sense to me to retain gendered pronouns for these categories of people, even though they all clearly moved away from the gender they had been assigned at birth in a number of significant ways. 45 In fact, for all of these categories, the gender status that resulted from such movement was contested to some degree, and its very ambiguity became the focus of suspicions and tensions, as we will see.
I am fully persuaded by Manion's approach, which I emulate in this book, especially with regard to the protagonists of chapters 2, 4, S, and 7. We actually know less about the people in my legal cases than we do about many of those studied by the scholars cited above, and nowhere in my sources can we be absolutely sure that any given individual is really speaking for themself, without duress. In fact, we will see clear evidence that testimony changed in response to torture, better to fit the expectations of interrogators. Therefore, caution seems warranted. Any policy on pronoun use that I adopt in this book is likely to seem anachronistic in one way or another, and no policy is likely to please every-one. To be sure, gender-neutral pronouns can create some awkward turns of phrase, and, for someone of my generation, at least, they take a great deal of getting used to. But to use gendered pronouns in this book in an indiscriminate way might constitute the most insidious anachronism of all, because its apparent naturalness would mask my assignment of gender to
“again, I was not really sure what to make of all this. I was especially perplexed by Xinxiang's statement that they were really a woman, when it was clear that they were treated as a man throughout the case record. It was only later (after reading Susan Stryker's work) that I came to perceive Xinxiang's career as a series of transgender maneuvers, with the underlying reality perhaps being their subjective identity as a woman.”
Screenshot from the linked website showing you can select for “autism” with control over the % chance.
Screenshot reading: "Girls Last Tour by tkmiz (Manga, with a nice adaptation). Essential for the girl who likes to think about standing wistfully in the snow, or the girl who cries thinking about Homura/Elster/Yuno Hidasketch. Somebody really needs to release Shimeji Simulation in english already." The last sentence is highlighted.
Said Mr. Jones in 1910: "Women, subject yourselves to men." Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote: "They rule the world without the vote." By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit "When all the women wanted it." By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum, He said that it was bound to come. This year I heard him say with pride "No reasons on the other side!" By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist He's always been a suffragist. And what is really stranger, too, He'll think that what he says is true. From Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People
Screenshot of the "Poison Lilies November" bundle on Itch.io showing we've raised 11,970$ usd with 23 hours and 56 minutes left before the bundle ends.
mparatively, the majority of Brits (65 per cent) increasingly agree that trans people face a great deal of discrimination in the country. Then 71 per cent say the community should be protected from discrimination.
The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning. The opposition to Mr. Trump’s authoritarian speed run requires new strategies that will engage a wider swath of the population. In Chicago, for instance, neighbors have formed community groups that use tools ranging from text messages to whistles to counter harrowing immigration raids. Whatever form the opposition takes, it must offer what conventional protest currently does not: a morally compelling form of resistance that can deliver results.
Consider the experiences of the last few years. The racial justice movement that peaked in 2020 ended in disappointment and backlash. The Gaza protests provoked intense conflict without delivering clear political or policy victories for their organizers. Maybe most important, Mr. Trump himself is back in the White House, suggesting a futility to opposition and activism among young people who have only ever known him as the central figure in our politics. He first took the oath of office when today’s first-year college students were in elementary school. The electoral choices offered to young people are not much better. Given the realities of our dysfunctional two-party system, the only alternative to a Trump-dominated G.O.P. is the Democratic Party, which is dominated by a decadent gerontocracy whose elites were more likely to attend a wedding in the Hamptons than a No Kings protest on the same day. Young people also no doubt notice the cowardice of many individuals and institutions that have the most at stake from Mr. Trump’s attacks against democracy. Some prominent universities and law firms have struck lopsided deals with the Trump administration; several media organizations and tech companies have likewise reached dubious settlements that involve paying the president in some form.
Screenshot, showing that the Poison Lilies November book bundle on Itch.io has reached $6,644.69 out of its $7000.00 goal.
Stylized portrait of the band Ave Mujica from the anime Ave Mujica featuring Saki holding plushies of the other members.
Picture of two anime women kissing in sweatpants overlaid on a pink starry background from Mr. Chainsaw Man's anime featuring a genderbender one shot episode.
However, a unique advantage in relating evolutionary mismatch to social and technological changes and human ancestral environments is that it makes broader societal issues “easier to see,” as boyd (2014) put it.
Taking this evolutionary perspective could provide design recommendations to CMC architects—design CMC features that cancel out the negative effects of other evolutionary mismatches via replicating features of human ancestral environments.
Utterances made by female voices in a multiplayer video game received three times more negative reactions on average, than male voices or no voice in a multiplayer video game (Kuznekoff & Rose, 2013). Similarly, African American male gamers are subjected to frequent derision and racist speech (K. L. Gray, 2012), while almost every female gamer is reported to have experienced sexual harassment at some point when male gamers discover their sex via voice chat (Ictech II, 2021). Sexual harassment of female gamers in online games was associated with rumination (Fox & Tang, 2017). As rumination is correlated with depression, this is indirect evidence that this novel form of harassment can have negative consequences on mental health. Arguably, encoding social information in one’s speech scaffolds a range of social cognitive tasks (e.g., signal one’s social identity and group membership; Benor, 2012; Gaither et al., 2015). In digital environments where rich social feedback/sanctions cannot be provided and transgressor identities can be anonymized, encoding such information in speech attracts a form of harassment which would otherwise be relatively less frequent in foragers—repeated episodes of multiple individuals uninhibitedly directing verbal abuse in large volumes in a relatively short period of time. Similar use of group chats as methods of bullying have been documented, sometimes with victims added to groups for the specific purpose of bullying and unable to leave without being re-added by other members of the bullying group (Shim et al., 2017). This type of cyberbullying utilizing novel free spaces provided by CMC seems to be equally experienced by males and females (Aizenkot, 2020).
Screenshot from Towa no Yugure featuring Yugure definitely killing a lot of mooks.
Screenshot from the anime Towa no Yugare featuring a woman complaining that her wife stood her up on her anniversary.
Summary for the NPC Dindrane from GBF, reading: "An ex-knight of the White Dragons who referred to herself before as Gareth, Dindrane once worked as a mole sent by the head of Wales, Gahmuret, to find a way to acquire the country of Feendrache. Dindrane was raised in an orphanage in Wales from a young age and never received any significant form of love from adults. She was suddenly selected by the head of Wales and branded with a "charm" that gave her special powers. Granted with the knowledge of the Otherworld, she was then forced to live as a man, without any opportunity to be loved as she was. Because of that, Dindrane devoted herself to caring for Isabella—who, though arrogant, had once spared her life—even after the woman lost her soul to the Otherworld creature she summoned, subsequently becoming bedridden. Just how long Dindrane took on the part of caretaker is apparent from her long locks, which she had no time to maintain."
Dialogue from HI3 reading Kallen: Wow, so what role will Mr. Otto be playing this time? A priest, a scientist, or a visitor from distant lands Otto: LIsten well, Kallen! He is a heroic figure, prudent in thinking and brave in action who joins forces with the rogue and fights the wealth gentry with his beloved, a dashing blonde who seems to have stepped right out of a comic book---
Manga panels from Marriagetoxin featuring a tall, somewhat femme character staring deeply into a shorter, more tomboyish girl's eyes as she leans in intensely.
Screenshot from the trailer for the upcoming Towa no Yuugare, featuring the female lead, an android that seems to have a very visible trans pride colored earring.
Answers to a reddit survey about "What would you do if you were suddenly and fully changed into the sex opposite of your birth-sex?" Answers are to "would you like that change" showing a quarter of respondents answered "a lot" and another 19% said "a slight improvement." https://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/comments/1mueyz2/results_for_what_would_you_do_if_you_were/
PDF of article title reading “Turing’s Imitation Game: Still a Challenge for Any Machine and Some Judges.”
Google scholar screenshot featuring Colin Wright’s academic work. All of the most cited articles feature “JN Pruitt,” as an author.
Graph of my itch downloads over time, showing a huge spike today.
Ichika/Momohero from High School Heroes, a Sentai spinoff.
Images featuring Rita Kaniska/Papillon Ohger from King Ohger, a sentai show.
Federalist Society page listing her as a "Contributor"
NYT's new "trans is such a losing issue" think piece's lede, reading "Lanae Erickson, a senior vice president of the center-left think tank Third Way, has studied the politics of transgender rights for four years. But it was only this past December that she had cause to utter the phrase “genital check” in the presence of a Democratic representative."
Girl saying to another girl “I’ll bully you mercilessly over and over again,”
Screenshot from “The Silent Witch” showing the protagonist dying of social anxiety while someone else explains the complicated fake backstory they’re making her use to enter a school undercover to her.
"But “loony grad student, best ignored” captures the GC attitude towards students perfectly, combining as it does the indiscreet and unprofessional assessment of a student’s mental health, the contemptuous pulling of rank, and the casual confirmation that the best thing to do with students who challenge one’s work is to ignore them. I’m not trying to blame Prof. Sullivan for having created this state of affairs—that these words tumble so easily onto her Twitter is no mark against her, but rather a symptom of a profound institutional malaise. Where once, educators saw disagreeable and rigorous students as a privilege, we are now encouraged to see them as mere loonies, best ignored."
Food choice test, showing that I apparently hate food.
Picture of adult Cagliostro from Granblue Fantasy saying “I needed to hone myself into the ideal I envisioned. You understand what that something was, don’t you?
A picture of dozens of boxes of medicine including progesterone and two types of estrogen
Photo of stickers for conference badges featuring three pronoun options: he/hm, they/them and write-in