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It has been confirmed. Lilly Bushnell was indeed a transwoman.
Patreon post of a content creator who she was a fan of and who communicated with her before: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-can-we-do-99384971
Her Youtube channel that’s empty: https://www.youtube.com/@LillyAnarkitty
And the smoking gun: Lilly expressing a desire to transition: https://search-new.pullpush.io/?author=acebush1&subreddit=Airforce&type=comment&q=Emotional+energy&sort_type=created_utc&sort=desc
The only difference between the Youtube and Twitch account name is a single L. Perhaps she had the foresight to know that her gender identity will be weaponized by Zionists and other transphobic reactionaries, so she purposefully self-immolated under her deadname and obscured the connection enough that people can’t definitively prove she was trans but also left enough crumbs that people in the know would know.
Aww gods. That’s really fucking depressing. I really hope she finds peace in her next life. Yet another casualty of the fucking American Empire and its vassals.
rest in peace lilly, i will remember you
it seems like she didn’t want to be remembered like this by the public at large, so i won’t say anything more outside this post, but i will remember her and i hope everyone else here will as well
Reposting what I initially said here (I think pro-trans liberation media and fiction and all that stuff should also count!).
I’m also trying to curate Marxist literature and put it in document for everyone to see.
Let me know if you come across any leftist, socialist, communist, etc. cinema/movies, videos, literature (fictional), TV shows/streaming serials, and other works of art in its entirety.
Give me the names and basic info so I can put it in my document for others to see eventually (I’m still working on it).
Oh, and video games especially are good in this regard (I already put in Disco Elysium lol).
I’m not sure it’s 100% what you’re looking for, but Night in the Woods is a game that’s pretty explicit about “we live in late stage capitalism and it’s terrible, we need unions / worker’s rights / etc.”. It also has an anti-fascist trans character, which is pretty rad.
Stuff like this is exactly what I’m looking for.
Putting this down!
UNJUST DEPTHS is marxist transgender lesbian scifi about communists from a mining colony that successfully revolted 20 years ago arming leftist insurgents in the empire they fought, it’s fantastic.
marxist transgender lesbian scifi
why have you thrown all my favorite things into one description
well i wanted to come up with the simplest most accurate descriptor i could think of, and “marxist transgender lesbian scifi” gets most of the way there. it doesn’t mention that it’s on a post-apocalyptic earth where people can only live underwater in colonies and on submarines, or that it’s specifically a mecha series, but those aren’t the core important bits
also it just has a massive cast that primarily consists of transgender lesbians. like, i can probably count on one hand the number of major important characters who are for sure cis, and would need several more arms to count all the confirmed trans ones.
honestly its amazing and it should be a trans cult classic at this point
hard to be a cult classic when it’s ongoing, but i should be seeing people talk about it all the time. everyone on hexbear should be reading it and talking about how it rules, especially people on c/traa
They’re probably already on your list, but:
- The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) – live footage from the life of Fred Hampton in the Chicago Black Panthers, very dry content but super cool stuff to have on tape
- Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) – dramatization of William O’Neale’s time as an informant on the Chicago Black Panthers, as well as his eventual betrayal of Fred Hampton, very solid (what got me researching the Panthers more in the first place)
Sounds great!
Welcome to the weekly “I get irrationally excited about trains for about 15 seconds megathread!”
My son came out to his grandpa this week. He absolutely didn’t give a shit. He was more upset about realizing his gift of a pretty princess castle play set a decade ago wasn’t as well-received as he thought.
It rocked.
idk if I’ll ever be able to get over missing out being in school but as a girl
i was a theater kid. recently i saw my cousin in a show that i was in when i was in hs, and had a nice time but couldn’t stop thinking about how much i had wished i was one of the girls in the ensemble at the time
never forgiving my previous endo for telling me to use 18g needles to do my injections. it hurt so bad every time and it gave me such a fear of injections that i switched for a long time and now that i use 23g i barely feel anything. why is it that even the non-trans-specific parts of our healthcare suck ass
What happened to that wayne track d’usse. I think it was meant to be on tha carter v but it didn’t make it and now his best track is just sitting on youtube?
No one wants to work anymore. Everyone wants to lay on the couch and listen to Batushka. I’m everyone
Got exposed to some transphobia while around some old dudes in boymode. They were really resistant to even getting the idea that gender can be chosen. I used to like them, still do somewhat. Well we will be hanging out in the same spaces for the forseeable future, so maybe I can get some education into those 60 year olds. At least it’s not hate, just a deep lack of understanding.
I’m suddenly getting bullied at work and its a bit, how they say, hows your father (which as I understand it means dont ask
I’m kind of fuming this morning because there’s some anti trans child talk being held at my uni tomorrow. Were an extremely mid school in a rural area, so I thought we might get a break from this shit. But apparently not.
It’s hosted by some Christian debate lord group. The talk has the phrase “the philosophy of gender” in the title, so the philosophy department freaked out and sent out a very PC email reiterating that this was not sponsored by them. They also said we could talk to a philosophy faculty member if we feel sad I guess? They’re all too happy to do ridiculous pronoun circles in their classes, but when actually bigotry shows up all they do is talk about their feelings.
Idk whatever, I need to just ignore and not care about this. I lack the precondition for action against these people, which is being organized with others. I do hope somebody like pulls the fire alarm or something, but it won’t be me.
that really fucking sucks, your phil dept r dickheads for that but i also dont know if there’s much they could do beyond making sure they aren’t associated with this guy. keep yourself safe girlie!!!
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gifting heaven will be mine to some of my friends bc it’s on sale :luna-terra-smirk:
I don’t know if this is the right place to discuss this, but I strongly suspect Bushnell was a trans person. I base this argument on their Twitch channel name, which is Lilyanarkitty.
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Searching for “anarkitty,” besides pointing to Bushnell, gives me the pseudonym of an artist named Emma Geary, a genderfluid fictional character, and a defunct Twitter account who went by QueerfemSchmutz. So, this name has clear gender connotations, ones that are decidedly non-cishet male.
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The “Lily” is self-explanatory and might be the actual name Bushnell wants to be remembered as. Bushnell chose to record their final moments using a channel name that starts with a fairly common and unambiguous woman’s name.
There’s also precedent back in 2019 when another anarchist who might have been a trans woman tried firebombing an ICE concentration camp with Molotov cocktails. I forgot what the consensus of van Spronsen’s gender identity was, but I remember the argument that van Spronsen was a trans woman to be fairly compelling. I think the main argument was that van Spronsen repeatedly used a pseudonym that was a composite of the names of famous women.
I no longer feel comfortable using Bushnell’s reported first name or even using he/him pronouns.
Edit: They had a Reddit account called acebush1. I browsed through some of the posts, and it’s consistent with what we know about Bushnell, an anarchist who’s also in the USAF. The username also makes sense, “bush” being the shortened form of their last name Bushnell. None of the posts I’ve seen stands out as eggy at all, but there’s also this. If this is true, then Bushnell’s original Twitch channel name was just acebush1 that they then changed to lilyanarkitty. So, we can rule out the channel being the channel of Bushnell’s hypothetical anarchist partner named Lily.
I had the same thought when I saw the Twitch channel “LillyAnarKitty” with the anarchist avatar. Why would a cis guy call themselves that? That’s a very femme coded name, so I instantly got trans vibes. Lilly also happens to be a common transfemme name.
I couldn’t find anything specifically trans-related on their Reddit account though, except for this:
Which, by itself doesn’t say anything about a person’s gender identity, because a cis comrade could’ve posted something like that as well. But it does show that this person was aggressively anti-TERF, which combined with the femme coded name on Twitch does add more weight to the possibility that they could’ve been trans.
Either way, rest in power, comrade Bushnell.
Aw, that’s sad. Also annoying. Wish Bushnell could’ve left us a note or something… although maybe the plan was “okay I can’t come out in my final defiant act, it’ll be used against trans people who will survive me”
the thought that Bushnell would have to think about that in the final moments up to self-immolation is maddening…
There appears to be more evidence every day to support this hypothesis. And I’ve seen it before, so many times. A lot of repressed US transfems go into the military in the hopes it will “fix” then, make them proper men. It’s deeply traumatic for most I’ve spoken to.
Even as we honor Bushnell’s commitment, I want to remind anyone who reads this that a long life of organized anticapitalist action does far damage to the imperial state than a single act of self-annihilation. Stay with us. Play the long game.
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Stuck between deciding if i should get FFS first or bottom surgery. Ive weighed out the pros and cons but its still up in the air. I wish I could just get them both done at the same time and be done with it
For me, bottom surgery is coveted (yay). I think my insurance covers ffs too (very yay).
I think I’d go for FFS first if both are the same cost, if it was me. I do get bottom dysphoria but looking more femme to other people would, hopefully, help with misgendering.
If your bottom dysphoria is more intense, I’d do that first though.
Yeah thats what I’m weighing too. I think my facial dysphoria is worse so I’m probably going to pivot to that
cis people will always let you down
It’s amazing to me how quickly my time away from boymode has become my favorite time. Its my preferred new normal. Going back to boymode for work or social situations feels like putting on a mask that weighs a million pounds. It’s exhausting.
Also, this weekend I discovered the dysphoria fighting powers of baggy overalls. Since it was nice out, my husband wanted my help with a bunch of spring cleaning and outdoor chores. I was dreading it because the weekends are my time, and I don’t have anything to wear for that kind of stuff. And I definitely don’t want to have that conversation with my neighbors yet.
So as I was getting dressed, I noticed my old baggy overalls. Imagine how pleased I was to find out that my brain doesn’t gender overalls at all. So those and a cute tee shirt had me feeling great all day. I’m going to have to get a nicer pair to work into my regular going out and doing things clothes.
