- So this all started off with...
- We can't wait for Sunday night!! pic.twitter.com/ah8IUPWr25
- Tonight's the night! A Night of a Thousand Vaginas! Text AISFOR to 75309 to donate $10 and help the women of Texas! http://bit.ly/1dJh19c
- Crucial cause, but can we not with the cissexism/bioessentialism, @AIsForOrg? https://twitter.com/AIsForOrg/status/424703712745906176 …
- Memo to pro-choice celebrity benefits: Perpetuating antichoicers' reducing people to genitals isn't subversive or funny.
- @DrJaneChi What is it you're objecting to, specifically?
- @AIsForOrg thanks for reply! It's the equation of vaginas=women=repro rights. Not all ppl w uteri are women, not all women have vaginas...
- @DrJaneChi Agreed. I love @AIsForOrg and that we're focused on solidarity, but I'd love to see us do it without alienating folks.
- @DrJaneChi @AIsForOrg Also, as someone who has had an abortion, I don't like being reduced to genitalia. My abortion was more than that.
- Abortion: not actually about vaginas.
- Here's where Martha Plimpton comes in.
- @DrJaneChi I'm curious to know why use of the word "vagina" is a problem for you. Are we meant to be ashamed?
- @MarthaPlimpton I can't speak for @DrJaneChi but I find it cissexist and bioreductionist. I am more than my body parts.
- @MarthaPlimpton Thanks for reply! Ofc not. But alienates trans people, & it's reductionist. https://twitter.com/DrJaneChi/status/424948506806071297 … https://twitter.com/DrJaneChi/status/424948905072418816 …
- @DrJaneChi @lilithfund @TEAFund FYI we're not taking one dime from this fundraiser. It's all going directly to the funds. As they're aware.
- @drtantatinycat @DrJaneChi Of course we all are. But our body parts are also under attack in a very specific way. Shame is part of that.
- .@DrJaneChi ALL of the money from "Vagina Night" is going to @lilithfund, @TEAFund, @WholeWomans and @FundTexasWomen
- @AIsForOrg I understand that. The issue is the exclusionary cissexist language, which feminists have largely steadfastly refused to address.
- @MarthaPlimpton Trans men, wmn & gender nonconforming ppl feel under attack by a world that equates women & vaginas. I won't perpetuate that
- @DrJaneChi I must disagree, respectfully. Vaginas are not reductionist, or an insult to anyone. They're a human body part. #noshame
- @MarthaPlimpton Using vaginas as a synecdoche for women is reductionist. Using vaginas to symbolize abortion is reductionist.
- @MarthaPlimpton @DrJaneChi so I come at this from the perspective of a linguist, but that's basically the definition of reductionist.
- @MarthaPlimpton @DrJaneChi They're a human body part. They're *not* a human, nor should they be used metonymically to mean humans.
- .@DrJaneChi @MarthaPlimpton Sometimes it feels like my abortion experience is reduced to a fetus on one side & my genitalia on the other...
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