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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/10/2026

It also can't understated: many in the WNBA didn't fall for this bullshit and made statements supportive of trans women. The result is this particular flashpoint petering out like a wet fart.

Now, while GUDEA introduced raw data to the conversation, the writing has been on the sports media wall all along. Katie Nolan called out the hypocrisy and manipulation, while several prominent voices saw right through Kanter’s stunt. Even Jesse Watters aired out Fox News for pretending to care about the WNBA.

The best barometer is simple. As the WNBA season draws to a close — the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries are in the WNBA Finals — watch all those so-called WNBA fans, claiming visceral concern for women and the league, suddenly stop caring about the WNBA and transgender athletes. How can they cosplay without their culture war arena du jour?

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/10/2026

Musk's acquisition of Twitter was entirely about appropriating the discursive commons to influence, manipulate and degrade conversations about marginalized demographics. He is explicitly responsible for funding and bolstering far-right narratives, as much as Zuckerberg and figures like Bannon.

Those were real-life consequences. And regardless of Cunningham’s intentions when expressing her opinion about transgender athletes, she opened the door for entities with ulterior motives to take her comments and run — both to cash in personally and to push a harmful agenda to further divide the country.

According to an exclusive report from CT Jones of Rolling Stone, citing the data analytics company GUDEA and its founder, Keith Presley, “there were only a handful of tweets that ever got more than 3,000 retweets” related to the transgender athlete debate engulfing the WNBA.

“If you take out the eight top posts, this [narrative] didn’t happen. Nobody would be talking about this,” Presley said.

GUDEA analyzed 188,631 relevant posts from July 20 to Aug. 12, per Rolling Stone, with nearly 99% of posts living on X and 3.57% falling in the “non-typical” bucket of influencers, pundits, and aggregation accounts.

“Georgia Paul, GUDEA’s head of customer success, tells Rolling Stone that the online conversation’s domination by ‘non-typical’ accounts is important because these individuals have the highest incentive to drive up engagement,” Jones wrote. “Since Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform in 2022, the founder has publicly stated that his goal is to make the app’s algorithm — and people’s feeds — free of political bias and more equitable for conservative posters. Not only can people who pay for premium X subscriptions now make money off of their most popular tweets, but they’re prioritized in comment sections, driving their tweets to the top.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 13/10/2026

One of the reasons for this is that the rhetorical figure of the trans child is never transfeminine. The trans girl is not a figure in the conservative lexicon because the transfeminine is a grotesquerie positioned always as a sexual threat to "real girls", and thus always adultified.

It is the latest development in a story ignited by a comment made by Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham, who said she wanted to protect young girls "who shouldn't have to go against biological men" in sport.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/10/2026

"Writing a paper together calling yourselves out of line to try and repair the friendship after arguing at a conference" is cracking me up btw

$At a conference on law and feminism, when a woman who is a survivor of prostitution challenged participants to take the violence in prostitution seriously, and not to deny it by calling prostitution "an expression of our sexual autonomy," or ajob like any other, some participants insisted that some women viewed their involvement in prostitution not as violence but as a job. She felt the need to leave the conference because she believed that once again feminists had erased the violence in prostitution. The next day, during a discussion about race discrimination and racial subordination in feminist publishing, Sherene considered how to ensure that each of us is challenged at the sites of our dominance. At that moment Mary Lou noted that we had all failed to challenge ourselves the day before when many of us had resisted the idea of prostitution as violence. Her statement tumed the discussion away from race and feminist publishing toward how people in the audience and panel participants felt about what had happened the previous day. Neither prostitution nor racism was ever discussed, and a fracture developed between us as co-organizers of the event. The conflict between us emerged because Sherene viewed Mary Lou's statement as putting an end to an important discussion on racism led primarily by women of color. She considered Mary Lou's intervention to have come either from a desire to shut down a discussion about racism, or from a perception that challenging racism was not as important a political goal as the goal of acknowledging and ending the violence of prostitution. Mary Lou remained frustrated that few women present, including Sherene, seemed able to acknowledge the violence of prostitution or to see that their resistance came out of their positions of privilege as women who had something to gain from denying the violence of prostitution. Our first response to the conflict, which felt like competing marginalities, was to call it a breakdown in communication.$

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/10/2026

I genuinely don't understand why this is being framed as though the law is specifically about cracking down on asexuals. It's an anti-LGBT crackdown and it's being discussed as such outside of Western contexts. It's weird to reframe the law in this clickbait-y way.

In criminalising private, consensual same-sex intimacy and using the coercive power of the state to repress other basic freedoms, Niger’s military regime has shown a blatant disregard for fundamental human rights law. Niger now joins 65 other countries that use these laws to expose a vulnerable group of their own citizens to fear, violence, and state-sanctioned hatred.
-- Téa Braun, Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust

This legal development, which is believed to have taken place in February 2026, was not picked up by news outlets until recently. A ‘large-scale crackdown’ against LGBT+ people has reportedly already started in Niger.

This brings the total number of countries that criminalise consensual same-sex acts to 66. Thirty-three of these are in Africa.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/10/2026

I don't want to be a cunt but the way this is being reporting is kind of... gross? Clicking the link leads to a report about homosexuality being criminalized for the first time in Niger's history. Asexuality is only mentioned insofar as the acronym "LGBTQIA+" is used a few times.

In June 2026, the nation of Niger became the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality, as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community. The country, currently run by a military junta, broadened its anti-LGBTQIA+ laws, increasing the criminalisation of LGBTQIA+ ‘practices’ to include anyone who ‘attempts to’ participate.

Niger criminalises same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history

Neighbouring francophone countries under military rule, Burkina Faso and Mali, also recently criminalised homosexuality

The West African nation of Niger has enacted a law criminalising consensual same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history.

The new Penal Code of Niger is understood to introduce a provision criminalising ‘indecent or unnatural acts’ and ‘sexual relations with a person of the same sex’, though the Code is not yet publicly available. It is also understood to contain other wide-ranging provisions such as criminalising ‘LGBTQIA+ practices’ and involvement in organisations ‘for homosexuals or LGBTQIA+’. Imprisonment terms are up to 20 years and are accompanied by heavy fines.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/10/2026

Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.

> In the 1970s, Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna came across several instances in which gatekeepers were rather blatant about this practice: “A clinician during a panel session on transsexualism at the 1974 meeting of the American Psychological Association said that he was more convinced of the femaleness of a male-to-female transsexual if she was particularly beautiful and was capable of evoking in him those feelings that beautiful women generally do. Another clinician told us that he uses his own sexual interest as a criterion for deciding whether a transsexual is really the gender she/he claims.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 09/10/2026

"Attack Dogs" is an action-packed mechsploitation space opera, with an Indian trans woman co-lead and an all-lesbian cast! SH: scribblehub.com/series/2513904/attack-dogs/ AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/91036871 Early access to new chapters: patreon.com/c/BhattZakharuk

ATTACK DOGS. At the Askold Combat Sports Academy for Women, to rank low is to be your victor’s property.

When the trans woman transfer triumphs over the reigning champion, her life is thrown into a chaos of controversy and high-stakes games she never intended to play.

Updates monthly. Patreon early access + exclusive.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/10/2026

"Call Me Kimberly", the "Estro Junkies" prequel, is shaping up nicely :3

$Green: "What if 12th Night was non-binary" various pitches for _CMK_ sound like a \*spins wheel* meme Red: *casts a male actor* Green: it's like if uhhhhh detransition baby was smashed into ummmmm stone butch blues and shoved inside the amniotic sac of ahhhhh 12th night$

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Chapter 3 of "Attack Dogs" is out now---and Chapter 4 is out on Patreon, a month early! Join us for another installment of kinky lesbian cyborgs, gladiatorial deathmatches and a trans girl trying to navigate it all! SH: www.scribblehub.com/read/2513904... AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/910368...

Alekha is a champion—but for how long? Her stable needs a sponsor and her exo-frame a serious upgrade if she's to contend with the best. Marta has solutions—but they might not be the most scrupulous ones.

Meanwhile, Alekha's new relationship with Radora unearths feelings Alekha would rather leave buried.

out NOW

Chapter 4 out on Patreon

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026

It's such a shocker that these fine folk are struggling to reproduce

Comment thread 1:

Honestly this sub is just an interesting thought experiment more than a problem to be solved.

Reply A: This sub is dominated by women and libs. No wonder the replacement rate is so abysmal.

Reply 1 to A: Yeah let’s just blame women for everything

Reply 2 to A: Based

Reply 3 to A: I think we can tell what box you checked on that poll

Comment thread 2:

I have 0 kid myself so contributing in this trend but in my defense finding a decent guy is very hard most young men's don't want serious relationship.

Reply A: This is simply not true. There are more decent men then women at this point. There's just not men that you're interested in. I know plenty of guys in there 30s who own property, aren't weird, are generally likable, and are mature.

Reply to Reply A: “There are more decent men then women at this point” Source?

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026

"Over 50% of the participants in the natalism subreddit are childless" is just so

Title of post in r/SubredditDrama: "Minor drama in r/Natalism as the subreddit is shown to have a TFR of only 0.83."

Poll of 824 votes

487 respondents had 0 kids

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

This is very straightforwardly downstream of "GC beliefs are protected beliefs"

He told the hearing on Monday: "The requirement to have a second interview, which arose simply from the respondent discovering that Mr Ngole held a protected characteristic, in this case a belief, then meant they imposed upon him requirements that were not imposed on anyone else."

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/09/2026

Like this book has this cover and is obsessed with the notion that our teenage daughters are turning transgender because they're not having enough sex in the parking lot of Denny's, and this is not an exaggeration.

Cover of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" by Abigail Shrier, which depicts a girl child with a hole where her womb would be. Yes, really.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Chapter 3 of "Attack Dogs" is now available on Patreon, two weeks early! More mech battles, more lesbian pining, and more words than the previous chapters, too :3 Check it out! Link: www.patreon.com/BhattZakharu...

ATTACK DOGS

CHAPTER 3

Alekha is a champion---but for how long? Her stable needs sponsorship and her exo-frame a serious upgrade if she's to contend with the best. Marta has solutions---only they might not be the most scrupulous ones.

Meanwhile, Alekha's new relationship with Radora unearths feelings Alekha would rather leave buried.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/09/2026

"Actually, the grievance politics and cultural resentment championed by reactionaries are fringe issues that we shouldn't pay attention to, even as it forms the core of their base of power" 19-FUCKING-90 BTW

THE LABUBU HOWLS ETERNAL
“Yet strangely, most chroniclers of the New Right’s errand into the capital—supporters and opponents alike—characterized feminism as a “fringe” issue. Press accounts, even those emanating from liberal and leftist journals, generally presented the right-wing movement’s opposition to abortion and the ERA as distracting sidelights to the meatier, more “important” policy aims—decreasing government regulation, cutting the budget, bolstering defense. The first round of history books on the movement were no better. Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.’s God in the White House, a typical account, allotted only two pages to the ERA and explored every possible cause for the right wing’s mobilization except feminism, from Watergate to the “new narcissism.” “[T]he ‘hearth and home’ issues” on the New Right agenda, Alan Crawford concluded in Thunder on the Right, were merely “nonpolitical, fringe issues at best.””

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026

I think the "Backlash" episode may actually be that "Talia screams for two hours straight" episode people have been asking for

When author Anthony Astrachan completed his seven-year study
of American male attitudes in the 1980s, he found that no more
than 5 to 10 percent of the men he surveyed “genuinely support
women’s demands for independence and equality.” In 1988, the
American Male Opinion Index, a poll of three thousand men
conducted for Gentlemen’s Quarterly, found that less than one fourth
of men supported the women’s movement, while the majority
favored traditional roles for women. Sixty percent said wives with
small children should stay home. Other studies examining male
attitudes toward the women’s movement—of which, regrettably,
there are few—suggest that the most substantial share of the
growth in men’s support for feminism may have occurred in the
rst half of the ’70s, in that brief period when women’s “lib” was
fashionable, and slowed since. As the American Male Opinion Index
observed, while men in the ’80s continued to give lip service to such
abstract matters of “fair play” as the right to equal pay, “when the
issues change from social justice to personal applications, the
consensus crumbles.” By the ’80s, as the poll results made evident,
men were interpreting small advances in women’s rights as big, and
complete, ones; they believed women had made major progress
toward equality—while women believed the struggle was just
beginning. This his-and-hers experience of the equal-rights campaign
would soon generate a gulf between the sexes.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026

"Doris Stevens wrote wearily over ONE HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS AGO"

This stirring proclamation, o ered in the nal page of Friedan’s
classic work, is one prediction that never came to pass. Feminists
have always optimistically gured that once they demonstrated the
merits of their cause, male hostility to women’s rights would
evaporate. They have always been disappointed. “I am sure the
emancipated man is a myth sprung from our hope and eternal
aspiration,” feminist Doris Stevens wrote wearily in the early 1900s.
“There has been much accomplishment,” Margaret Culkin Banning
wrote of women’s rights in 1935, “. . . and more than a few years
have passed. But the resentment of men has not disappeared.
Quietly it has grown and deepened.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026

Also "Great Replacement"-style conspiracies entwined with backlash to women's rights are just so core to nation-building, hegemonic demographic anxieties and right-wing political projects that we ought to have a much better understanding of the phenomenon.

Then as now, late-Victorian religious and political leaders accused
women who postponed childbearing of triggering a “race suicide”
that endangered (white) America’s future; they were, in the words
of President Theodore Roosevelt, “criminals against the race” and
“objects of contemptuous abhorrence by healthy people.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 10/09/2026

Y'all should see the expression on my face right now

Whenever this spiral has swung closer to equality, women have
believed their journey to be drawing to a close. “At the opening of
the twentieth century,” su ragist Ida Husted Harper rejoiced, the
female condition was “completely transformed in most respects.”
Soon the country would have to open a Woman’s Museum, feminist
Elsie Clews Parsons mused in 1913, just to prove “to a doubting
posterity that once women were a distinct social class.” Still later, at
the close of World War II, a female steelworker declared in a
government survey, “The old theory that a woman’s place is in the
home no longer exists. Those days are gone forever.”

Yet in each of these periods the celebrations were premature

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 09/09/2026

This Sapphic September, if you have a craving for kinky lesbians engaging in violent bloodsport alongside the relationship drama, check out my and @mzakharuk.bsky.social's sci-fi mechsploitation epic! SH: www.scribblehub.com/series/25139... AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/910368...

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/09/2026

"Backlash" speaks very clearly about elite capture of liberation movements to soften their goals.

As the backlash has gathered force, it has cut o the few from the
many—and the few women who have advanced seek to prove, as a
social survival tactic, that they aren’t so interested in advancement
after all. Some of them parade their defection from the women’s
movement, while their working-class peers founder and cling to the
splintered remains of the feminist cause. While a very few a uent
and celebrity women who are showcased in news articles boast
about having “found my niche as Mrs. Andy Mill” and going home
to “bake bread,” the many working-class women appeal for their
economic rights—ocking to unions in record numbers, striking on
their own for pay equity and establishing their own edgling groups
for working women’s rights. In 1986, while 41 percent of upper
income women were claiming in the Gallup poll that they were not
feminists, only 26 percent of low-income women were making the
same claim.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/09/2026

Oh no, anything but autonomy and financial independence

Popular psychology manuals peddle the same diagnosis for
contemporary female distress. “Feminism, having promised her a
stronger sense of her own identity, has given her little more than an
identity crisis,” the best-selling advice manual Being a Woman
asserts. The authors of the era’s self-help classic Smart
Women/Foolish Choices proclaim that women’s distress was “an
unfortunate consequence of feminism,” be cause “it created a myth
among women that the apex of self-realization could be achieved
only through autonomy, independence, and career.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/09/2026

Reading a book that's actually enjoyable for once, for "Cracked Ivory", but it isn't without its groan-worthy excerpts. (This is from the first chapter of the 15th anniversary edition of Susan Faludi's "Backlash", "Blame it on Feminism".)

“In dispensing its spoils, women’s liberation has given my
generation high incomes, our own cigarette, the option of single
parenthood, rape crisis centers, personal lines of credit, free love,
and female gynecologists,” Mona Charen, a young law student,
writes in the National Review, in an article titled “The Feminist
Mistake.” “In return it has e ectively robbed us of one thing upon
which the happiness of most women rests—men.”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/09/2026

Chapter Two of "Attack Dogs" is available publicly! Did Radora throw the match? And why, if so? How will Askold react to Alekha's unexpected victory? ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/read/2513904... AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/910368...

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/09/2026

"HORMONES ARE EXPERIMENTAL! WE NEED MORE TESTING! MY NAN DEVELOPED A COUGH AND HER DOCTOR FORCE-FED HER ESTROGEL!" Welcome to trans womanhood I guess

A lofty goal, but one that Midi and its competitors’ track records suggest is possible. In a few short years, hormone therapy for perimenopausal women swung from inaccessible to inescapable. Every day, as the number of women taking hormones rises, they join an ongoing treatment group that is more experimental than perhaps they know. When it comes to doling out estrogen and progesterone, the goal for clinicians is balance. The industry employing them, however, is zeroed in on its growth chart going up, and up, and up.

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