Every once in a while, something comes along that is just so perfect, it's almost ethereal. This is one of those moments.
Ita Segev is a 'transfeminine anti-Zionist Israeli interdisciplinary performance artist, writer, and advocate based in Brooklyn' and a piece they wrote back in 2018 is making the rounds in the wake of the war in Israel and Gaza.
And it's spectacular.
Put this one in a museum pic.twitter.com/pYtrHFMIuA
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 16, 2023
Wow.
And before you think it's parody, it's not.
Yes folks — it’s real https://t.co/7iBh8UJagO
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 16, 2023
Here's just a snippet of the article:
I am an Israeli trans woman who desperately needs Palestine to be free. I need this because I refuse to accept that the massacre of peaceful protesters in Gaza is something that my people keep doing. I need this because I understand that trans liberation and Palestinian liberation are linked.
About 10 months ago, I figured out that I wanted to start hormone replacement therapy and in that way medically transition. There were many reasons for this decision, but one of them was the realization that growing up Israeli and trans in Jerusalem while being expected to become a Zionist man left an aftermath in my body. I needed help to heal, and sensed that growing a rounder, more tender body would help me connect with the justice-loving feminine child inside of me, and that having such a body would help me grow from that soft place.
I was already grounded in my anti-Zionist Israeli identity. After I moved to New York, I was thrilled to find how the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement allowed me to work in a non-violent and tangible way under Palestinian leadership to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Yet I still secretly wished for a moment that would alleviate me from the difficulties of my past. And I decided the moment of starting hormones would be it.And so I waited until the Jewish new year to go to my pharmacy, and start that phase in my transition. I imagined the little ritual I would do while taking that first teal colored pill — new year, new Jew, new me. But when the pharmacy handed me the bottles with my medication, I looked at the label that read “produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals” and my heart stopped.
Teva, a word meaning “nature” in Hebrew, is an Israeli-owned pharmaceutical company that I have vaguely heard about as a participant in the economy of the occupation. This must be a mistake, I thought.
Linked how, exactly? Also, yikes.
Does anyone want to tell this author what happens to LGBT people in Gaza?
— 🇺🇲🇮🇱Jewish New Yorker (@JBmode27) October 16, 2023
It's not pretty, what happens. You'd think Ita would know this.
Lotta heads exploding in the past week https://t.co/QeqQJzTxTv
— (((theophilus))) Queen of the Lemurs (@pammalamma) October 17, 2023
Lots.
— Andrew 🌻 (@awshields0) October 16, 2023
Yes it is.
this person is very confused
— Tom Jeans (@thomasjeans) October 16, 2023
That's an understatement.
It never ceases with them. Self centered to the extreme. "How to make it all about me".
— TPW30 (@truthSocTPW30) October 16, 2023
The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral.
Modern problems. https://t.co/6MDHBqYcgP
— Presbycast (@presbycast) October 16, 2023
First world, modern problems.
Is there anything the Jews don't control? https://t.co/2WgZITZj70
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 16, 2023
We chortled.
Maybe Ita should ask Palestinians or Saudi Arabia to send some gender transition hormones https://t.co/qxynQS6EmO
— Sunny McSunnyface (Taylor's Version) (@sunnyright) October 17, 2023
That'll go horribly for Ita.
Lolllll this is too good https://t.co/EwvFvKTavd
— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) October 16, 2023
It's a slice of fried gold, honestly.
Amazing.
— LoLNothingMatters (@DastDn) October 16, 2023
Just layers of art.
(The 'siblings' part is my favorite.) https://t.co/oKcZlcHl7O
Lots of layers. Like a big, giant lasagna of idiocy.
It’s glorious. Future civilizations will look at this to learn how we lived https://t.co/IouyIdayrn
— Paulie (@pauliebignuts99) October 16, 2023
And shake their heads in disappointment.
Advanced irony https://t.co/pTcZEW3W6w
— 𝓓𝖗. 𝓥𝖔𝐱 𝓞𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖎 (@Vox_Oculi) October 16, 2023
Doctorate-level irony.
If ever there were proof that Gender Dysphoria is a mental illness, the delusion that the Palestinians would ever claim ANY sort of kinship with the "trans" community is surely it. https://t.co/pR3Imet0pG
— Katherine McKinney ✝️🦬 (@CrankyKat) October 16, 2023
We've covered someone who spoke the truth to 'Queers for Palestine' -- there is no kinship there.
Are they aware that Hamas doesn't support trans rights?
— Mimi Woolf (@WithLoveMimiW) October 16, 2023
But guess who does? ISRAEL. https://t.co/WNSMfF7k9T
Which is why Israel and not Gaza make the replacement hormones Ita uses.
This is real, I looked it up [and 5 years old], though I'm not sure if the author being Israeli makes it more or less funny. https://t.co/qsjGgYVn2X
— Brad Pearce (@WaywardRabbler) October 16, 2023
It makes it a lot more funny.
Quite the intersectional conundrum, indeed. https://t.co/LFewslp4UV
— 🇺🇸🇺🇸Lesley🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lesbug13) October 16, 2023
It's like a pretzel of intersectionality.
— pantsdailyon (@pantsdailyon) October 17, 2023
A big, stupid intersectionality pretzel.
I thought this was the Onion or the Babylon Bee.
— Bob K 🇺🇸 (@EnsPulver1958) October 17, 2023
It could almost be parody.
Insert “sweating guy choosing buttons meme” here
— Moshe Hill (@HillWithView) October 16, 2023
Exactly. That meme was made for this.
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