Search Results for feminists of trans experience

...Alexandre Baril Abstract In this essay, the author draws on his experience as a trans, francophone, feminist researcher to share his reflections on the difficulties encountered within francophone contexts in the development of knowledge that moves beyond what the TSQ editors call “the familiar...

... in Turkey and proposes that a collective focus on the realm of death would bring feminist cis women and trans people together around a shared gender experience. In Turkey, the annual number of cis and trans women who are killed by cis men has been gradually increasing. This situation makes the availability...

..., black, and feminist legacies of theory and action. Considering that approach, the space of Trans Revolution and the travesti and transsexual people's movements in Brazil is trans feminist work. Reassembling blackness and transness in order to question which genealogies we want to the field(s) of black...

... of this experience. Feminists and critical race scholars suggest that race and gender frequently function as “proxies”: variables that reduce the complexities of biosocial bodily experience to more quantifiable forms of data. The authors argue that much of the research conducted with transgender persons suffers from...

...Lori Watson Abstract The author was inspired to write this article in light of the ongoing and recent claims by some radical feminists that trans women are not women. This is much more than a debate among differing theoretical positions. Women have been threatened, both trans* and cis women...

... feminism” enter collective memory as an exclusionary thing distinct from the experiences, labor, and critiques by feminists of color and trans and queer people of the same era? And why, when existing nuanced narratives might invite us to deeper analysis, are stories of exclusion and abjection so magnetic...

... the arguments for trans exclusion into their contemporary iterations and proposes the archive of trans women's feminist work as a theoretical and political resource for countering trans misogyny. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 lesbian feminism feminists of trans experience women's...

... with multiple starts. The interviews used an open-ended modified life history approach focusing on respondents' time living socially as men, starting with the experience of transition. These interviewees' accounts show that when trans men understand feminism as varied, they are more likely to take on feminist...

... on information from numerous online forums, surveys, and personal communications with trans* people and feminists. However, it is worth noting that my experience is limited to events that took part mainly in Moscow and St. Petersburg after 2010, and some of my observations are drawn mainly from communication...

..., help illustrate the connections between Black and trans that describe fields, texts, and individuals. This project meditates on transness/ Blackness in the context of movement. I argue that the “trans” taken up by Black trans studies, or trans studies from a Black feminist perspective, is characterized...

... use “(cis)” throughout this paper to signal the ways that feminists without transgender or transsexual experience have centered their own experiences of gender/sex at the expense of feminists who have trans experience, to de-center (cis), and to be conscious of the ways that “cis” functions...

... , edited by Johnson Elizabeth A. , 23 – 31 . New York : Crossroad . Zwissler Laurel . 2018 . Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . 5. Trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) is an ideology or movement...

... attention from trans people's embodied life struggles. In addition, this celebrity model of LGBT and feminist praxis not only sidelines the experience of socioeconomically underprivileged queer subjects but also renders them pathological insofar as they do not pass as the “fully transitioned,” “beautiful...

... reflections on the authors' participation in, or experience of, trans and feminist scholarship and activism; and documents of transfeminist activism. In English, transfeminism , written all as one word, usually connotes a “third wave” feminist sensibility that focuses on the personal empowerment of women...

...Elspeth H. Brown Abstract This piece discusses current trans oral history projects that bring together feminist methodologies, transgender studies, and queer archives. I offer a map of some of these oral history projects, and their archive partners, while offering some reflections concerning how...

...Sara Ahmed Abstract This article offers a critique of the claim made by trans-exclusionary radical feminists that transphobia is being misused as a way of silencing or censoring critical feminist speech. The article suggests that transphobia works as a rebuttal system, one that, in demanding trans...

...” feminists were trans exclusionary); the transphobic imperative to consistently frame transness through the lens of novelty undergirds trans-exclusionary feminist claims to the historical endurance of their beliefs. 13 As the authors of essays in this special issue demonstrate, however, trans-exclusionary...

... of gender discrimination. The words and deeds of trans women displayed a desire to build other differences, not as imitation or caricature of the feminine but as an embodied experience of different otherness that, among other things, could have broken (and still can break) new ground for feminist practices...

... for myself. How many of us are wounded and exhausted by our own syllabi, which highlight the antagonisms between feminist, queer, trans, and intersex studies as they intersect with studies of race, class, and many other analyses (not to mention the material realities and experiences this intellectual...

.... The centrality of desire in these poetics foregrounds an experience of becoming based on affect in opposition to fixed binary identifications. Susy Shock is far from alone in this move toward desire. Several other contemporary trans* feminist artists based in the Southern Cone, including Naty Menstrual...