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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

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Mar 6

Thread on some international law stuff.
One of the arguments from those who oppose #RepealTheGRA is that the GRA 2004 caters to a tiny minority of the population and is finely balanced.

Now let's step way back in time. Following the end of WWII, a process of decolonisation started. The economic implications of that process are relevant here. Newly independent countries wanted to nationalise the economic resources of their own land. Sovereignty included resources

Western countries claimed they had acquired those resources legally and at the very least deserved full compensation for those nationalisations, which were a form of expropriation. The battle played out as much at the United Nations General Assembly as outside.

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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

@AlessandraAster

Mar 5

Late reflections on censorship re Roald Dahl (whom I never read as a child as he was not that popular in Italy).
As a child and teenager I read plenty of books that would be considered 'problematic'. It helped me sharpen my critical skills.

Not only to tell a good book from a bad book (and plenty of bad people write good books, and make good art).
But also to tell a good idea from a bad idea. Only reading Anne Frank's diary and Dostoevsky 'together' I could tell how much anti-semitism infected European culture.

Of course little children cannot do this on their own. But they can learn that reality is complex, and the sooner the better.
But to tell you the truth, the thing that scares me the most is that ALL OF OUR LITERATURE is transphobic, according the Tralibans.

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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

@AlessandraAster

Mar 3

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Thread on the sort of defamation women who criticise gender theory are subjected to. At the beginning of February, Ciro Russo, professor of Mathematics at @ufba started writing very defamatory tweets directed at me and other Italian women with anonymous accounts.

The tweets were so clearly defamatory I decided to write to the Rector of the University. Here is the letter sent on 10 February.

On 14 Februry I got this reply. This was clearly not satisfactory so I replied on 15 February.

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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

@AlessandraAster

Mar 1

Another thread, another desperate attempt to alert my law colleagues to the profoundly regressive move that is gender theory. Especially dedicated to those who study colonialism and sovereignty.

Every international law academic knows the concept of 'terra nullius'. By analogy to the Roman law's concept of 'res nullius', something belonging to no-one literally, terra nullius can be translated as 'nobody's land'.

It is evident how useful this concept can be to countries intent in a project of appropriation and colonisation of newly discovered lands. 16th century Spanish scholars still maintained that Latin America could not be considered to belong to no-one, but by the 18th century...

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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

@AlessandraAster

Feb 25

Short thread about the modern left.
There are three messages that we are told represent the modern left. All of them have to do with women and their role in society.

First one: transwomen are women.
This mantra is premised on the idea that our sex is changeable and that *any man* can declare to be a woman and become one ipso facto. Self identification replaces the material reality of our existence, over which ALL of socialism is based on

Second one: sex work is work. The mercification of women's bodies is reconceptualised as a choice of the women so exploited. And you cannot complain about your exploitation if you choose it, can you? With a stroke, all of Marxist analysis of exploitation is erased.

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Asteroid Alessandra Asteriti

@AlessandraAster

Feb 23

Gender theory is an exercise of mythopoesis. One archetype is creating a myth of origin for something taking place in the present, in order to give it legitimacy. The 'we were here before and we are coming back so we have a claim to this place' is a well known trope.

@HRC

This story about how the T got to be included in the LGB is a classic example of this myth of origin. And from a time when @HRC still had not been captured by the trans lobby.

Of course the myth has to include such sacred places for the LGB movement as Stonewall.

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