... feminist dialogs about transsexual involvement in the women's movement and in lesbian feminism. TMB: Do you remember bringing Beth on as a correspondent [for the Lesbian Tide ]? 2 TMB: When you heard this new view that was coming out of San Francisco, did it alter your own views at all? Your...

... 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...

..., we need to acknowledge that there was an ideological difference between the radical feminism promoted at the largest lesbian gathering to date ( Stryker 2008 : 104)—the 1973 West Coast Lesbian Conference (WCLC)—and that of a group of TERF activists who attempted to rush the conference stage and bash...

.... Reger J. , 57 – 78 . New York : Routledge . Jeffreys S. 1997 . “ Transgender Activism: A Feminist Perspective .” Journal of Lesbian Studies 1 , no. 3–4 : 55 – 74 . Koyama Emi . 2003 . “ Transfeminist Manifesto .” In Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the Twenty...

..., brought to the surface by hormones, and I wonder how many people are inside me? * * * Trans of color feminism is a feminism that responds to the violence done to trans women of color, and the historical absence of trans women in both white and women of color feminism. Trans of color...

... the “militant lesbian feminism” that emerged in US contexts in the 1970s. Men often rejected this kind of feminism, even if it was the framework that began their feminist consciousness, because they disagreed with its essentialist understandings of sex and gender and poor treatment of both transgender...

...Susan Stryker; Talia M. Bettcher Finally, we also include interviews—both original and archival—that help round out the scope of trans/feminisms we wish to represent. Tommi Avicolli Mecca discusses the history of the Radical Queens Collective in Philadelphia in the 1970s and their relationship...

... overly simplistic dichotomy often drawn between an exclusionary transphobic feminism and an inclusive trans-affirming feminism.” Without reducing the work of the few francophone researchers interested in trans/feminisms, including the author's, to the fight against exclusionary, transphobic feminist...

... trans feminism that focalize the writing, activism, and performance work of trans women of color. 11. For example, Finn Enke ( 2012 ), cites Sandy Stone in the acknowledgments to Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies , who, “in so many ways, really started it all...

... article does not seek to offer best practices built only on citations to existing social science but rather is a record of the trail we blazed with this survey project in dialogue with women of color feminisms and trans liberation. The NTDS is a joint project of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and...

... feminism, drag culture, and gay liberation politics in Philadelphia in the 1970s. In what follows, Mecca discusses his early involvement with radical sexuality and gender politics with the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) at Temple University, his later involvement in the more assimilationist Gay Activist...

...Pedro Javier DiPietro Abstract Trans, transing, queer, and queering are typically represented as sharing in the antinormalizing labor that concerns material bodies. In the vein of decolonial feminism, this essay looks at three renderings of transing methodologies for what they teach us about: the...

... internal to feminism. The LA organizers loved Beth for her artistic talents and wicked sense of humor. She was charming, and she knew how to make connections. They insisted that she perform at the conference's opening night because, after all, she was also a foremother in the growing popularity of lesbian...

... .” In Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII , edited by Clemens Justin and Grigg Russell , 11 – 28 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Morgan Robin . 1978 . “ Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions? ” In Going Too Far...

... lesbians have found “trans men” to be a more suitable identity for themselves. On the contrary, there is a long history of denigrating and ostracizing male femininity within gay communities, owing to the social stigmatization and colonialist feminization of Asian/Chinese men. Feminine gays, transvestites...

..., black studies, and trans* of color studies; queer of color analyses; scholars and students of black, women of color, and lesbian feminisms; and feminist science studies. We must find a way to find our way toward what must be done, at the expense and disposal of nobody and nothing. Indeed, many of...

... decoloniality. The call of transfeminisms is to perform a self-criticism that does not exclude as subjects of feminism those who “stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference; those of who are poor, who are lesbian...

...Cael M. Keegan Abstract The 2014 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference specifically solicited trans-feminist academic work through a call for proposals subtheme entitled “Trans-Feminisms.” This subtheme called for work exploring how “trans-feminist analyses help us redefine...

... communism. In Manifiesto contrasexual and Testo Junkie , Preciado inscribes its transnarrative into two different queer and equally important queer traditions, the one traced by Deleuze, Foucault, and Hocquenghem, and the other traced by French lesbianism and radical feminism, in particular, Monique...

..., LGBT, gay, or gay and lesbian framework. The fact that the collection is part of an undergraduate and graduate research and teaching center positions it to critically engage with elements of trans positivity, trans tokenization, trans marginalization, and outright transphobia or cis-sexism that appear...