{"version":"1.0","type":"card","id":"1482b902-de0f-436d-9ecf-99b7fe63990d","url":"https://stacklist.com/card/1482b902-de0f-436d-9ecf-99b7fe63990d","title":"Our Reasons | Online Only | n+1 | Andrea Long Chu","source_url":"https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/our-reasons/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Weekly:%20March%208%2C%202024&utm_term=lithub_weekly_master_list","note":"Like any candid analysis of a sexual subculture, this material was seized upon by some readers as lurid and inappropriate, especially given my openness. The gender-critical feminists, in particular, have held it up as a kind of smoking penis, proof of my fetishization of women and, by extension, the pathological character of all transfeminine desire. I find this very amusing. For what am I accused of? Not, it would seem, aggression, violence, control, or any of the other supposed hallmarks of toxic masculinity. On the contrary, I am imagined as a slave to my own perversions, as a narcissist fixated on my own physical appearance, as someone broken, dominated, violated, manipulated—in short, as hopelessly feminized.","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/57cd0a19-3942-4a1c-9925-8491bac3c2e4/","alt":"Our Reasons | Online Only | n+1 | Andrea Long Chu","width":1200,"height":630},"stack":{"id":"b191af94-388e-48fd-a2be-ba6b6b459f34","title":"Articles for Translation: Feminism and Volunteering","url":"https://stacklist.com/stack/b191af94-388e-48fd-a2be-ba6b6b459f34"},"created_at":"2025-03-11T09:57:42.968Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"This is the website for the literary and cultural magazine *n+1*, specifically an article by Andrea Long Chu titled \"Our Reasons\", which is an edited version of the afterword for her book *Females*. The article reflects on the book and its reception in the context of the current political climate, particularly surrounding trans rights and gender identity. It discusses Chu's perspective on psychoanalysis, the limitations of identity politics, and the challenges of being a trans writer in a world that often seeks to explain, rather than understand, trans experience. \n","tags":[],"key_entities":[],"classification":null,"language":null,"confidence":null,"provenance":null,"token_counts":{"approximate":155},"content_hash":null,"acp_version":"0.2","body_available":false,"body_tokens":0,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"},"_links":{"self":"/api/public/card/1482b902-de0f-436d-9ecf-99b7fe63990d.json","html":"https://stacklist.com/card/1482b902-de0f-436d-9ecf-99b7fe63990d","md":"/api/public/card/1482b902-de0f-436d-9ecf-99b7fe63990d.md","stack_json":"/api/public/stack/b191af94-388e-48fd-a2be-ba6b6b459f34.json"}}