89. Black Female Erasure & The Story of Pauli Murray │ N3VLYNNN

Today's guest is N3VLYNNN; a multidisciplinary artist, wellness practitioner, and dancer. While working in urban, "progressive" cities, N3VLYNNN was drawn to “queer” art and politics, but it wasn’t long before she began to see things that well, seemed a little weird. For one thing, a man, over six feet tall, who called himself a woman, sexually assaulted her friend.

Well before the peak of gender madness, back in 2013, she made a youtube video called “Transwomen Are Not Female.” The backlash to her foray into gender critical politics was swift and merciless, very nearly wiping her artistic efforts from the internet.

As time went on she noticed “women” were being deleted altogether, even from wellness spaces like community acupuncture. N3VLYNNN’s days of letting it rest and holding space for ‘true trans’ sufferers were coming to an end. She came to understand that transgenderism is a colonial effort, not only in these arts and wellness spaces where women were made to feel privileged and unwelcome, but also in a global sense, where transgenderism is exported to other cultures and indigenous histories distorted or erased.

In 2022 she made another video, this time exploring the stories of black women who were formerly trans-identified. In highlighting black female detransitioners, she was thoroughly deplatformed, with her business and art accounts being locked, deleted or otherwise completely lost to her overnight. Despite this, N3VLYNNN continued to pursue her art, writing and research. In this episode, we dive deep into some of that research, including the push to trans the dead, erasing black women role models like Pauli Murray, who has been lauded as a “nonbinary ancestor.”

N3VLYNNN's Blog

How The Trans Movement is Erasing Black Women from History: Setting the Record Straight about Pauli Murray (Essay)

⁠How The Trans Movement is Erasing Black Women from History: Setting the Record Straight about Pauli Murray⁠ (Audio Version)

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