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[Conspiracy Mawile]

I guess transgender archeology means spending all your time shitting on anthropologists and their evil ways of misgendering dead people by applying the dreaded pseudoscience of two sexes on helpless skeletons.

 

[Timothy Troon]

“Transgender archeology “

What a time to be alive.

 

[Special spoonie]

Lmao he made an entire post on a website called “histories at risk” in defence of his bullshit degree Link

Owen J Hurcum​

In our most recent guest blog, Owen discusses Transgender Archaeology
“A Non-Subject about a nonexistant thing” [sic] – Public Hostility towards a Transgender Archaeology
On April 4, 2023, I announced on social media that I would be attending the University of York to read a PhD on Transgender Archaeology come October. Archaeology that concerns itself with the relationship of our discipline to the transgender community, genders outside of the modern settler/West’s dominating binary construct of cisgender man/woman, and wider queer topics is certainly nothing new (For example see Dowson 2000; Voss 2008; Weistmantel 2013; Klembara 2021; Walley 2021 or Black Trowel Collective 2021), however it was clear that my announcement reached many members of the public who had not before heard of this theory of archaeology.
Whilst I received a lot of support for my announcement by members of the academic community, my tweet caused an online storm, and both myself and my supervisor received hundreds of hostile messages. This popular public hostility ranged from generic transphobia; misgendering me, calling me mentally unwell, calling the trans community paedophiles and personal attacks on my appearance – to attacks on the concept of a Transgender Archaeology itself. The more colourful of these attacks equated this research to cultural and historical vandalism, fabrication or – in the case of one commenter – to propaganda equivalent to Nazi archaeology (See Fig 1). Others simply decried a transgender archaeology as being pointless, based on nothing, a waste of time and resources or simply “a Non-Subject about a nonexitsant thing” [sic].

Fig 1. One of numerous hostile messages received by this author after announcing they will be studying a PhD in Transgender Archaeology. This one equating the study to the archaeology supported by Hitler (From Authors Collection via Twitter.Com)

It would be clearly wrong to suggest that the hostility faced in this instance came from within the academy or wider archaeological establishment. This instance of hostility was a public hostility by and of those opposed to the very existence of transgender people. Their opposition to this course of study is not rooted in Renfrew’s processualist decries of what he saw as “poststructuralist gurus” in archaeology dictating “politically appropriate ‘correct’ thinking” (Renfrew 1989, 39). Nor is it based upon an academic disagreement with the validity of emancipatory (e.g., McGuire 2008; Burton 2021), socially conscious (e.g., McGuire 2002; Hamilakis & Duke 2007), or transformative (e.g., Atalay et all 2014) archaeology’s attempts to grapple with Panameno and Nalda’s query “archaeology for whom?” (197 – rather, it is rooted in their dogmatic hostility to trans people in society (Lester 2017; Faye 2021).
In this instance we can regard this case of public hostility as not being against transgender archaeology in specific, but a by-product of their hostility towards the trans community in general that archaeology must be aware of nonetheless. Hostility that is only on the rise; in the first two months of 2023 over 150 bills targeting the rights of transgender individuals have been introduced across the US at the State level (Human Rights Campaign, 2023) and in the United Kingdom both major political parties support reviewing, with the aim of removing, parts of the 2010 equalities act that enshrined the few hard-won rights that trans people have into law (Perry 2023). Since 2008 there have been over 4000 reported murders of transgender individuals worldwide (Transgender Murder Monitoring, Online).
The multiple reasons behind transphobia are explained in, and analysed by, numerous books on the subject but one reason that is constantly used in transphobic recruitment is the notion that trans people are somehow new, we are a modern trend without history. This reasoning is clearly evident in the numerous hostile replies I received and it is something that archaeology is uniquely placed to directly challenge. Afterall, our discipline is already involved in the discussion of transgender rights for, as Voss points out, “opponents of homosexual and transgendered human rites [sic] cite historic precedents as justification for their position” (Voss 2008, 316), precedents that archaeology establish in its cisnormative reconstructions of the past (Weistmantel 2013; Arnold 2016).
This is but one facet of a transgender archaeology, explained only in the most introductory and passing of terms, to highlight why a transgender archaeology is anything but a “non-subject” and also why we as archaeologists who “do not practice our research in a social and political vacuum” (McGuire 2002) have a duty to be sensitive to a community under threat, especially when our discipline can be a useful tool in the fight for their emancipation (Walley 2021; Weistmantel 2013). Other facets of a transgender archaeology would include an understanding of how our discipline can support and foster the work of transgender individuals operating within archaeology, re-evaluating interpretations of ‘gender ambiguous burials’, or in applying an archaeological gaze to the very material culture of the social movement for transgender equality itself . Work that will be central to the upcoming PhD by this author that caused this instance of public hostility hurled at transgender archaeology, and inspired this article.
Owen J Hurcum [They/Them]
References
Arnold, B. 2016. ‘Belts vs. Blades: the Binary Bind in Iron Age Mortuary Contexts in Southwest Germany’, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23, pp.832-853
Atalay, S., Clauss, L., McGuire, R. & Welch, J. (eds.). 2014. Transforming Archaeology: Activist Practices and Prospects, Routledge, London and New York
Black Trowel Collective. 2022. ‘Archaeologists for Trans Liberation’, anthro{dendum}, Online, https://anthrodendum.org/2021/08/06/archaeologists-for-trans-liberation/, accessed 22/04/2023
Burton, C. 2021. Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, University of Florida Press
Dowson, T. 2000. ‘Why Queer Archaeology? An Introduction’, World Archaeology, 32, Queer Archaeologies, pp.161-165
Hamilakis, Y. & Duke, P. 2007. Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics, Left Coast Press
Human Rights Campaign, 2023. February 15 2023, https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/...t-transgender-people-highest-number-on-record, Online, accessed 22/04/23
Klembara, N. 2021. ‘“But I’m a Paleolithic Archaeologist!”: Queer Theory, Paleolithic Art, and Social Justice’, in C Barton (ed.) Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, University of Florida Press
McGuire, R. 2002. A Marxist Archaeology, Percheron Press, New York
McGuire, R. 2008. Archaeology as Political Action, University of California Press
Panameno, R. & Nalda, E. 1978. ‘Arqueologia, Para Quien?’, Nueva Anthropologia, 12, pp.111-124
Perry, S. 2023. ‘Keir Starmer backs Equality Act review despite trans activists’ warnings’, Pink News, April 5 2023
Renfrew, C. 1989. ‘Comments on Archaeology into the 1990’s’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 22, pp.33-41
Transgender Murder Monitoring, https://transrespect.org/en/trans-murder-monitoring/, Online, accessed 22/04/23
Voss, B. 2008. ‘Sexuality Studies in Archaeology’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 37, pp.317-316
Walley, M. 2021. Incorporating Nonbinary Gender Into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads, Routledge, London and New York
Weistmantel, M. 2013. ‘Towards a Transgender Archaeology: A Queer Rampage Through Prehistory’, in S Stryker & A Aizura (eds.) The Transgender Studies Reeder 2, Routledge

 

[Vott]

Some Cass review reactions I found on Xitter:
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OwenJHurcum / Owen Exie J Hurcum
Profile, "PhD Researcher in Transgender Archaeology" from York England. Currently challenging archeologists on misgendering bones.




Mayor of Bangor
Owen served as mayor for a year (2021-2022)

Spoiler: More Tweets and images

He's written a couple of books and some articles
Linktree, A
Threads, A
Instagram
Non Binary Wiki, A
LinkedIN

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Whoa, steady on there, Willoughby! Are you implying that a (((certain demographic))) enjoys (((disproportionate representation))) in the UK political and media sphere? You ought to be careful, you'll end up having to hang out with noted Holocaust denier, J.K. Rowling, if you carry on like that.

 

[Special spoonie]

Yep really relevant to the field of archeology that. I am wondering who his thesis supervisor is now.

Edit: York uni website

Trowels, Trenches and ‘#TransRights’: Archaeology as Transgender Activism​

Project Team: Owen J Hurcum, Colleen Morgan (Supervisor) and Emma Waterton (Supervisor)

Project Support and Funding: AHRC (White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities)

This PhD project will examine the impact that archaeology has on the transgender community, and how – in line with understanding our discipline as political and potentially transformative – archaeology can become a tool for transgender activism. Further, the project will demonstrate the feasibility of trans theory as a research framework for archaeological study, namely how transgender theories of gender can improve our understanding of past societies by challenging a priori cisnormative assumptions that ultimately hinder our ability to fully explore identity making and lifeways of past cultures. This research will consider the following key questions to achieve this aim:

• How has archaeology been (ab)used, both by the public and professionals, in relation to debates surrounding transgender rights and dignities and what is the impact of this upon the transgender community?
  
• What challenges are faced by transgender individuals within academic and commercial archaeology and what steps does our discipline need to take to address these?
  
• What can transgender theories of gender tell us about personhood and how can these be integrated into our archaeological framework?

This project will undertake extensive qualitative analysis of transgender experiences within and of archaeology, through workshops, surveys, and interviews to generate a large data set that can be used to ascertain the issues that our discipline creates for the transgender community. On top of this, the project will look at transphobic invocations of archaeology in (social) media – such as the infamous ‘when an archaeologist excavates your bones then you’ll either be a man or a woman’ meme that is often sent to transgender individuals in an attempt to invalidate and undermine their gender. The projecting will also build upon the work of queer and feminist archaeologies that highlight the political power archaeology has in creating normatives that are used to attack and disenfranchise minority groups in the present. From all of this, and through an emancipatory archaeological lense, the project will be able to answer its key research questions and be a key body of work in the growing field of transgender archaeology.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Ryan Castellucci takes part in harassment of some random transphobe on facebook


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He also has some comments about the Cass Review, though he limited himself down to retooting some retarded takes:


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ETA: Oh gee, I wonder who could have such an opinion on Gender? I wonder what has that person shared on the Fediverse?

Spoiler: nsfw

Right - he's just casually posting porn that he makes.

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His feed is just full of BDSM porn that he makes or that he found on the internet. It's daily pornposting. Nigga got a cum aneurysm in his brain.


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So he wants people to have autonomy over their body? His obsession with posting bondage pics (and all of women! so much gender diversity) would prove he gets turned on by taking that autonomy away.

So not a tranny, but a pervert who thinks it's OK to post porn on mastodon.social because all of it is behind a CW.

 

[Al from Dadeville]

A couple of trannies were battling TERF laugh reacts this morning on Facebook


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[Chandelier]

The dumb muscle pooner controversy has been making the rounds on Preddit. And this beautiful example of a logical fallacy came across my feed.

Archived that Matt Walsh tweet. Here is our lovely lass:

Nice chin, bro. I can still see that castrato gut even with the latex.

I expect pooner Kratos discourse to continue in the future.

"As a someone studyiung a PhD in Transgender Archaeology I'd just like to say this is serious bullshit."

random.txt material right there

If he wasn't a public figure I'd have said this was a parody account

He's promoting the "Elagabalus was trans" thing, and wants to use archaeology as a springboard for trans activism.


Notice he never references actual science, he just references Judith Butler.

 

[AMHOLIO]

There are entitled faggots who attempt to push things on people because the current legal landscape gives them a leg up, which is your standard narc behavior.

I didn't bring those up since those exist in every social group, but good point. Black woman doesn't get a table at a restaurant because she showed up late without reservations? They can offer her a table in the back 45 minutes from now? Racism sexism! Too many crazies figured out how to manipulate things to their advantage.

But yes, you hit the nail on the head, though I think the specific reason why the trans movement moved away strongly from mental illness framing was because they were being gatekept in terms of treatment.

much of the arguments presented now center around the idea of bodily autonomy specifically because most troons do not want to wait or be told to carefully assess what their options are. So much of their sense of self is now tied to the idea that transitioning is possible, that having to question, that reality is like an existential threat.

You're right! The fun part is when they have to confront insurance on these policies. How do you get it covered when it isn't a mental illness? Simple: it's a body problem! Even then, troons get touchy and hate referring to it as disablity to anyone who isn't related to an insurance agent because they want their free cyberpunk limbs and transhuman rights on top of free hormones and surgeries on someone else's dime.

He’s still melting down. Even fellow cult members vilified . Also weird the lefties haven’t attacked him yet because the amount of times he says stuff about black people.

I'm so glad.

THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF LIFE
GONE

So what, unless a kid transitions at 10 does that mean all their entire life before then was a waste? India also forgets that if we held off until after 25, that means the line would be down, so the waitlist would be more like one year. They'd have time to catch up to the demand that way and make a smoother experience for all the hons who came out past 30 (like him).

Mayor of Bangor
Owen served as mayor for a year (2021-2022)

Oh, that guy! He's been in this thread as a footnote for his ugly green hair mayorship. Glad to know someone else has the job now.

Is it weird to say that his hairstyles and hair in general screams autism?

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Yep really relevant to the field of archeology that. I am wondering who his thesis supervisor is now.

TLDR I could not find who is his supervisor.
Here's his profile on the research institute website:

Owen Hurcum​

PhD Candidate – Axis 1
Owen (They/Them) is an AHRC (WRoCAH) funded PhD researcher who completed their undergraduate degree at Prifysgol Bangor University in 2019 in Archaeology and continued their studies at Bangor graduating with an MA in Celtic Archaeology in 2022. Their MA thesis studied the development of Queer Archaeology as a framework for archaeological analysis from its origins in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s towards the present day. Owen’s PhD builds upon this research with a focus specifically in ‘Transgender Archaeology’. The study will look at the impact of archaeological research on the transgender community, how archaeology is being (ab)used in discussions around rights and equalities for transgender individuals as well as investigating identities in the past that do not fall within the modern West’s notion of cisgender men and women.
Owen has been an outspoken trans activist using their platform as the former Mayor of Bangor, and the UK’s first openly non-binary city Mayor, to campaign for transgender equality and dignities. They have published an introductory book on the topic of transgender equality, entitled Don’t Ask About My Genitals, and continue to be an outspoken advocate within the transgender community. This activism, and their own experiences as a Non-Binary individual, drive their research and feed into their PhD project.

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From a collaborative session he took part in:

Owen Hurcum: Whilst the overall theme of TAG was on Archaeology, the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis, the conference also included a number of sessions on other aspects of contemporary archaeological theory. One of these was the full day session ‘States of Being: The Politics of Bodies in Archaeology’, which consisted of papers focusing on destabilising a priori and established assumptions of what constitutes a body, and whose body counts, in the archaeological record. This included challenging the binary human/non-human boundary in archaeology to extend our study to include diverse bodies, from animals to trees. We were also encouraged by one paper to rethink our approach to the studies of childhood in archaeology through an exploration of the Viking age Birka Burial. The politics of the archaeological body was also brought into the centre of discussion through papers on gender and transgender archaeology, as well as the ethics of displaying body parts in medical museums, and the erasure of fat bodies in our reconstructions of the archaeological record.

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Emphasis mine. It is clearly about bringing politics to archaeology, and it is completely retarded to talk about gender in an archaeological context. If you agree on the consensus of the English language that sex is the physical trait of the body and gender is the psychological aspect (how you feel and fit into the social norms), then you cannot determine gender from the remains of a person because gender is defined only by what they and their peers think. The emphasized passage about the diverse bodies is utter nonsense (even if the deceased person was a hermaphrodite, their skeleton would likely be dominant of one sex traits, and even then, this is a very rare occurrence). The only way to prove that somebody was a person with a different gender than sex is to find some documents that describe how they behaved in their society. Which is something that history deals with, not archaeology.

The "erasure of fat bodies" is also crazy talk, unless the PhDs at York believe the "I'm not fat, I just have thick bones" memes then the only reason to prove that the remains were fat would be to find the remains of that person's clothes. The reason there are no fat bodies in archaeology is because in the time archaeologists deal with, people were not fat. Obesity is a disease of affluence.

I am not able to find his thesis in the University of York dissertation library which means that he either has not finished it yet, or has not published it. I think the first case is true, because his thesis is funded by WRoCAH (White Rose College of Arts and Humanities), funding programme, he may be obliged to publish the thesis. It's uncommon to not publish a PhD dissertation.

His supervisor may be Professor Emma Waterton from that first link or one of the postdoctoral researchers in that institution.

Also lol:

Those are the PhD candidates in humanities presenting their research. It looks like a teenager's bedroom. Four projectors and a bike upside down.

 

[Conspiracy Mawile]

OwenJHurcum / Owen Exie J Hurcum
Profile, "PhD Researcher in Transgender Archaeology" from York England. Currently challenging archeologists on misgendering bones.

On top of this, the project will look at transphobic invocations of archaeology in (social) media – such as the infamous ‘when an archaeologist excavates your bones then you’ll either be a man or a woman’ meme that is often sent to transgender individuals in an attempt to invalidate and undermine their gender.

Lmao I was actually right about that?
What a bunch of hokum, Mr. Hurcum.

 

[TungstenCarbide]

Himdia is obsessed. And I'm not familiar with British politics, who's the Dehydrated Hater?

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Himdia is obsessed. And I'm not familiar with British politics, who's the Dehydrated Hater?

Probably Debbie Hayton.

Oh how I savour Himdias tantrums like a finely aged wine

 

[Marvin]

He’s still melting down. Even fellow cult members vilified . Also weird the lefties haven’t attacked him yet because the amount of times he says stuff about black people.

The Cass Review excluded input from trans people?

Well that's certainly not true. It included many quotes from "trans" youth who used these gender services.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

This kills the transgender archeologist

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

India Willoughby thread when?

 

[Mellow Malevolent]

This kills the transgender archeologist
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The trans archeology is hilarious because it's actually pushes against progress in not just assuming that you can use artifacts to determine the sex of a skeleton. There have been plenty of times when archaeologists not trained in forensic archeology have incorrectly identified the sex of a body based on the other content of the grave. We have discovered that there are many cases where members of one sex have apparently occupied the social role of the other, in particular women occupying the social role of men.

According to the transgender archeology school of thought, those women are actually men. It's not that social rules can be fluid, it's that the reason why there are a lot of Scythian women buried with longbows is because they were all secretly dudes and wanted to do the manly act of warriorhood. Again, for all there bitching about the gender binary, they are the ones who are reifying it. They are the ones who are choosing to interpret the ability of women to be something other than traditional feminine roles as indicators that those are not really women.

 

[Special spoonie]

India has now started a gofundme to fix his eye he ruined during his botch FFS Iink

This line man, he is fuming.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

India has now started a gofundme to fix his eye he ruined during his botch FFS Iink

I feel like this doesn't need to be stated, but never trust a GoFundMe. Even if their goals are not met, they still get to keep all the money raised. It's a grifter's paradise.

That said, he's already raised £55 of a £22,000 total, so he's well on his way! Not since Paul Latza (Peace Be Upon Him) have I seen an online fundraiser with such a strong start!

I'm on my phone, so sorry about the crappy screencaps, but I had to share this image of Willoughby's fucked up, post-surgery face with the class.



Sorry, bro, it's over. You can't fix nerve damage, that shit's permanent. Remember, though, this invasive, painful surgery that frequently goes wrong and causes problems that will only get worse unless more money is paid out is entirely necessary and life-saving and should definitely be given to kids.

I like that even when literally jangling his cup for money, he can't resist a dig at the evil TERFs. Can it be called 'pan-handling' if you have a surgeon cut your handle off? Pan-dilating, maybe?

Also, and maybe this is just me, I'd've thought that the normal, decent thing to do (especially given that he apparently knows how tight money is for people these days) would be to refund the money, but if he doesn't make the total, he's going to donate it to a trans charity instead.

...I mean, India is trans AND a charity case, I suppose, so technically it's not fraud.

This line man, he is fuming.
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What the actual fuck is he talking about? There is not, and has never, to my knowledge, been a ban on trans newsreaders! I don't think I have a crescent moon reaction large enough for the amount of lunacy on display.