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... feminist dialogs about transsexual involvement in the women's movement and in lesbian feminism. But I do wish that all young butch women growing up now could be more fully aware of the feminist alternative before they felt they had to choose. I wish all of us genderqueer and studs and butch women had...

...C. Heike Schotten Abstract This article traces the emergence of what the author calls predation TERFism to the development of US Jewish-identified feminism and, in particular, Zionist lesbian separatism. This historical connection is reflected in the rhetorical and ideological similarities between...

...Blase A. Provitola Abstract French lesbian author and theorist Monique Wittig's early contestations of woman as the subject of feminism have played an important role in gender studies in both anglophone and francophone spaces. Since the mid-1990s, French lesbian studies scholars and queer theorists...

... 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...

... feminism (and finds allies in less-discussed pockets of lesbian feminism as discussed in previous TSQ issues), and the marked absence of a visible FTM community within trans affirming spaces (as Smith documents through Sullivan's descriptions of the Milwaukee-based Gay People's Union and San Francisco...

... 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...

..., this 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...

...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...

....’” Like Alan, many of the men I interviewed clearly understood that no one group represented all feminists. Second wave versus third wave was the most common way these men generationally distinguished among feminisms. The second wave was described narrowly as the “militant lesbian feminism...

.../library/documents/NPRG_Full_Document_Links_V18.pdf . O'Donnell Katherine . 2019 . “ The Theological Basis for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist Positions .” In Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies , edited by Banerjea Niharika , Browne Kath , Ferreira...

... on feminism: they have “overwhelmed” feminism (36), have made gender into a “moveable feast” (5), have “assaulted” feminism, and have always been in opposition to lesbian feminism (41). Jeffreys mourns the disappearance of the category lesbian, which she thinks has been given up by young women in favor...

...‐Exclusionary Radical Feminist Positions .” In Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies , edited by Banerjea Niharika , Browne Kath , Ferreira Eduarda , Olasik Marta , and Podmore Julie , 81 – 102 . London : Zed . Preciado Paul B. 2015 . Testo...

..., all the time. In this sense, he [ sic ] performs total rape, while also functioning totally against women's will to lesbian feminism.” 3 By seeing trans women as men and as agents of patriarchy, many TERFs argue that they are the victims of oppressive, violent, and misogynistic men who work...

... , 11 – 28 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Morgan Robin . 1978 . “ Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions? ” In Going Too Far , 170 – 88 . New York : Vintage . Raymond Janice . 1979 . The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male . Boston : Beacon...

... over. 9 Second-wave feminism, which provided a predominant ideological framework for the (white) lesbian liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s, followed similar gender-normative logics (Stryker 2008 ). By embracing the divide between sex and gender, second-wave feminism distinguished...

... at the historical legacy of trans-exterminationist feminisms that became theoretically dominant in the mid-1970s, and these feminisms' categorizations of trans women as man-made sexual objects, fake lesbians, and rapists, which I have gestured to above in my discussion of Raymond's Transsexual Empire...

... all, “there is [also] love at the core of fascist mobilization.” I think this is perhaps as good a note as any upon which to end this dialogue: honoring the history of feminist and/or lesbian anti-fascism even as we—indeed because we—insist on being attentive to the non-synonymity of feminism and anti...

... . “ Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities .” Hypatia 24 , no. 3 : 1 – 10 . Black Caucus . 1973 . “ Black Caucus Position .” Lesbian Tide , May–June : 19 . Buchanan Pat . 1973 . “ The Living Contradiction .” Lesbian Tide , May–June : 6–7...

...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...

... 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 out-trans woman and conference co-organizer Beth Elliott. When the radical...