Ellora’s Cave: Jaid Black/Tina Engler Flounces off Twitter

Ellora’s Cave founder Tina Engler (pseudonym: Jaid Black) flounced off Twitter after being called out on her Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings beliefs (that it was a romantic relationship and the two were married) and her transphobic comments.

Yesterday was quite the day. Too bad I screencapped the wrong stuff, missed half of the best stuff, and lost bandwidth entirely just as @pubnt returned.

The Anne Rice Facebook post issue was still going sideways.

The Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings Issue

So there’s a new book (short story length, apparently) about Thomas Jefferson and (his slave) Sally Hemings and their BDSM “relationship.” It’s paranormal.

Jaid Black/Tina Engler got involved in this one.

http://twitter.com/fangirlJeanne/status/575776131556601856

http://twitter.com/AlishaRai/status/575724052360359936

And so did Jenny Trout, who doxed the hell out of it far more than I could on limited internet time/bandwidth while away from home.

The earlier start to this is last week’s Stephanie Dray incident, covered by Jeanne here and Aya de Leon here. Both cover a lot of similar ground, but both are worth reading. Updated to add this link: Roslyn Holcomb? What she said.

Today’s piece that ties all of these things together, though, complete with a neat little bow, is this one from Moonlight Reader:

And that, my friends, is the hill that Anne Rice has chosen to die on. She hates Jenny Trout so much that she will support that crap over Jenny. And she hates the “bullies” so much than anything that they think is bad, she must go on record as calling good. Even if that thing that is “good” is a disgusting rape fic about a 14-year-old black enslaved person who was raped by her 44 year old white owner for decades.

And, in related news:

http://twitter.com/KarLyn_P/status/575705998305820673

Getting Back to Thomas Jefferson for a Moment…

http://twitter.com/deirdresm/status/575743115354505216

Correction: it was Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

http://twitter.com/ataglanceRMC/status/575830342235389953

Transphobia

First, let’s have a trans* man speak, shall we?

http://twitter.com/LogoTV/status/576089108998713345

Jaid Black/Tina Engler also showed her transphobic ass yesterday.

http://twitter.com/AlishaRai/status/575719601008480257

…and…

http://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/575793459681828864

…and…

http://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/575789689107410944

There’s more, but I didn’t screencap it all.

First: what Courtney said.

I wrote a piece last year about my evolution in thinking about transgender folks. About three decades ago, when I first learned about trans issues, pretty much everyone was railroaded into being pre-op or post-op.

The trans* community doesn’t all fit into neat categories that cis people like Tina Engler/Jaid Black define, though. Nor should they.

Hell, Jaid’s definitions don’t even cover a lot of the biologically intersexed, which my husband covered rather well in an essay on the definitional problems of “man” and “woman”. While this was written to point out how flawed Prop 8 was, every bit is just as true today.

And then the Flounce.

Tired of being called out (for good reason), Tina Engler decided to delete the @JaidBlack Twitter account.

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