Natalie Wynn es la Nueva Afroditrans @ContraPoints English translation

 Publicado en anodis.com el 30 de enero de 2020

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English translation

Natalie Wynn is the New Aphroditrans¹

Fabiola Díaz de León @escdesenoritas

1As this column was originally written in Spanish for anodis.com (agencia de noticias de la diversidad sexual/ Sexual Diversity News Agency) and Aphrodite in Spanish is Afrodita, I have renamed Natalie Wynn as the modern Afroditrans in a game of words. A rare equivalent would be Aphroditrans.

Natalie Wynn is a youtuber with more than 49 million views that is a good candidate for the Internet Olympus, that is why I dare to baptize her as the modern Aphroditrans, a goddess for her management of the essay, the autonomy of her thought, the mastering of the dark humor and the clarity of her speech.

Her channel ContraPoints emerges as a voice that counteracts right-wing discourses, misogyny, fascism and abusive bigotry on social media. One of the 20 most supported people on the www.patreon.com platform, whose resources allow each video essay that goes up to her virtual showcases to have a production quality, content and interpretation of the highest quality and that is not at all complacent. A video essay by Wynn is not for everyone, it is not the typical YouTube product that in a few dozen minutes trivializes even the most solemn of statements. On the contrary, Wynn takes her time, it is rare that she occupies less than an hour and the quality of her videos shows many hours of pre-production, recording and post-production based in her best asset which is: herself.

Using the first person, she, speaking from her own experience and knowledge, of the latter she really shows off, not only for the amount of information she handles, but for the masterful way she has of processing and exposing it while sheltering from the always welcome shadow of the tree of good humor. It is not for nothing that she has been named the Oscar Wilde of the internet, which I do not think is exaggerated. Rather, it seems to me that it does not do her fully justice at all, because Oscar Wilde, even though he was photographed in the role of Salomé, did not have the audacity to lose his privilege as a bourgeois man and renowned intellectual, which allowed him to make fun of the rest of those who made fun of him, of his mannerism and his afemination that is so celebrated today and that in reality cost him his freedom and his life, to say the least. Let's not forget that good old Wilde passed as a married family man while making a real circus out of his love affair with a young aristocrat. Wilde had no intention of losing his male privilege, much less being female.

Natalie can be compared to Wilde because in every video essay that I have seen, she has reasoning and phrases that without a doubt the good Irish fag could have pronounced if he was living the age of the internet and its conflicts. But I prefer to call her Aphroditrans because as the goddess of love her symbol is the feminine par excellence, whoever can doubt that Wynn is a woman does not truly understand the thought of the eternal feminine, both as an energy, as a reality, and as a gender.

 I give her the name of a goddess because the power that emanates from her work is truly epic and revealing. Nobody who watches a Wynn video essay can argue with her because her empathy is such that even tainting a super figure of letters like JK Rowling, she literally puts her in her place without ever having to compare herself to her. Wynn moves between bytes as if from a sea of ​​bytes she had been born, hence she is Aphroditrans, and she did not appear naked from a shell but fully dressed for battle in cyber space as Athena was born from the head of Zeus. Wynn raises the sword of full knowledge of what she is arguing, leading the Internet user through a speech that makes it clear that the whole battle of hatred and bigotry that she as a trans woman, and the rest of the gender divergence, trans men and non-binary people, suffer in a system that excludes and impoverishes them, leading them to extremes of intellectual, labor, family, couple, and political indigence and that faces thousands of violences that the rest of the populations, however vulnerable, cannot be compared. Wynn is a goddess of the media, Natalie Wynn is Aphroditrans and not because she is super produced and a perfect beauty, but because the beauty lies in her speech and her way of exposing it on her ContraPoints posts.

You can follow her on patreon and receive, for very little, exclusive material, or simply look for her channel on YouTube and find her video essays with which the revolution she made in her body since 2017 is consolidated and goes further and further with each video delivery. Undoubtedly the best exponent of independent content on YouTube that has kept increasing the quality and finished products during the years that has advocated for the thought of the left, liberal, pro human rights, anti-fascist and against all kinds of extremism that exalts hatred. Because even starting from positions of hatred towards her and her community, she manages to assert her judgment and her point of view over more than 90 minutes, which is the equivalent of a feature film.

At 32 years old and with as few resources as she can have, Natalie Wynn has brought philosophy to the internet in the first person, creating her own voice that can only be compared to a figure of the stature of Paul B Preciado who would be the male counterpoint in the divergent sex world of philosophy. Do not miss her for nothing, use the subtitles because the handling of the language she use and the speed at which it arrives in the presentation of ideas is not for beginners or neophytes. Wynn makes us think while we laugh and watch her play the piano, or go out in disguise, or take a bath. I leave the link to her last video essay. Aphroditrans is a delight.

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