71. Gender Critical Comedy & Speaking Out in The Age of Trans │ A Swags

Whose Body Is It

A Swags has gender critical women cracking up on Instagram. Her reels skewer transgenderism, homophobia, and misogyny in mainstream culture. “I like to take the ridiculous claims, like how misgendering someone is literal violence, and highlight the ridiculousness of it” she says. However, A Swags didn’t always see the humor in it. For three and half years she identified as genderqueer. Growing up, she experienced discomfort in her female body and classmates would make comments about how she wasn’t feminine enough, like a football player trapped in a cheerleader’s body. When she reached adulthood and entered a liberal arts college, she stopped identifying as a woman. ‘Transness’ seemed to explain why she felt deeply unsettled by her body, to the point where she wanted to cut off her breasts. After positioning herself as a non-woman, she realized her entire paradigm needed to shift. She desisted and her talent for acting emerged as a way to express herself in our woman-hating, lesbophobic society and provided a way to create connections with other women tired of screaming into the void. In this episode we also take a look at the state of the lesbian dating world and how young lesbians can find love today.

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