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Questions asked of LGBTQ
borninflames: From photographer L. Weingarten’s “A Series of Questions”, depicting transgender, transsexual, and genderqueer people holding signs painted with the questions they have actually been...
View ArticleDaily Fail transphobia
Daily Fail transphobia Oh my WORD this piece from the Daily Fail is sickening transphobic. Just for starters: use of words and phrases like “unshaven”, “is actually a man”, “woman” in quote marks, not...
View ArticleViolence Targeting Transgender Women in Honduras Continues
Violence Targeting Transgender Women in Honduras Continues In the last four weeks the bodies of five transgender women in Honduras have been found. The murder of women, especially transgender women,...
View ArticleFeminism shouldn’t be about telling trans women they’re not female enough
“ The idea that your body tells your mind what gender you are and is always, infallibly right is ridiculous. It’s the other way round. Your mind tells your body, because that, biologically, is what...
View ArticleHer Name was Lucy Meadows: the consequences of transphobic press monstering
This is a guest post by trans feminist Sarah Noble, who tweets here. This week isn’t really a good week to be transgender. Then again, it never is. On Tuesday we learnt that the Press Complaints...
View ArticleMonday feminist #roundup (26th March 2013)
I missed my Monday feminist round-up again so you’ll have to have it on a Tuesday instead. In the scheme of things, that doesn’t really matter, I suppose. - In the week where bullying from the Daily...
View ArticleOn allies, silencing and privilege
“Being an ally does mean – and I hate to say it given recent discussions – but it really does mean questioning your privilege. If Person A says a word that they don’t realise is offensive to Person B,...
View ArticleOn trans issues within feminism and strengthening the movement’s gender analysis
“[...] consistently, I read a version of feminism that leaves me out. This happens regularly on this very blog [feministing], which we’re starting to work directly to address. Cisnormative assumptions...
View ArticleMonday feminist roundup (1st July 2013)
There’s not so much this week. I’ve been posting most things individually. - On the Newstatesman: Why is sterilisation still being forced on transgender people? I saw this doing some rounds last week...
View Articlequick hit: On allies, silencing and privilege
“Being an ally does mean – and I hate to say it given recent discussions – but it really does mean questioning your privilege. If Person A says a word that they don’t realise is offensive to Person B,...
View ArticleIt’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women
It was from a stranger in Maryland, telling the doctor that one of the transgender patients whose care he was overseeing “regularly attacks women on social media who have a lesbian feminist polititical...
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Don’t Be a Dick: How Comics Can Alienate Women and Trans Folks
Don’t Be a Dick: How Comics Can Alienate Women and Trans Folks Snippet above, full comic on link: bitch magazine Today’s new Ladydrawers’ strip, drawn by non-binary Chicago-based queer art maker...
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Transmisogyny at Women’s Colleges Goes Beyond Questions of Admission.
And admission is only a first step; it’s only a basic, formal acknowledgement that our womanhood cannot be invalidated or denied with any accurate and historically grounded understanding of sexism,...
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