...Emma Heaney Abstract This essay argues that retrieval of the archive of trans women's engagement with women's liberation corrects a historical focus on the virulent trans misogyny that targeted trans women for exclusion from feminist milieus and projects beginning in 1973. This essay follows the...

... and binary gender hierarchy we all live in. Perhaps underlying the refusal to recognize trans women as women is the belief that true liberation from sex-role oppression and gender hierarchy requires that we create a world in which sex roles disappear, in which gender is nonexistent or so completely...

... present: in an era of supposed transgender liberation through the attainment of legal rights and media visibility, the narrator addresses us directly, explicitly asking us to not forgo the legacy of the “bad trans women” who have built the movement. I chose to translate excerpts of The Dawn of the Bad...

... tools in such a way that uniquely adds to the many perspectives and approaches being brought to transfeminism today. 1 How might one excise and recombine media as a means of contributing to the liberation of trans women and all those who transgress gender norms and/or as a method of fighting misogyny...

... 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...

.... While for some feminists, trans politics has meant just another form of identity politics, and is thus not engaged in a struggle to liberate women, trans activists often saw feminists as gender essentialists and gatekeepers of the category “woman.” These exchanges have been characterized by questions...

... working relations with Women's Liberation. I remember having long discussions with Laurie, who was heading up Women's Liberation and I was heading up GLF. And we had all these discussions about drag, because she was really curious about why I was suddenly wearing mascara and blue eye shadow to class, and...

...M. W. Bychowski Abstract In this roundtable response to Joy Ladin's “Genesis of Gender,” the author affirms the possibilities for a theology of liberation arising from the book of Genesis but places a greater emphasis on humanity's cocreative and subcreative role in generation of gender. The author...

...Sayak Valencia; Olga Arnaiz Zhuravleva Abstract This article proposes two specific interventions, utilizing a critical transfeminist positioning to critique a transexclusionary perspective in writing and research on the crucial problem of necropolitics and the murder of women in Mexican society: (1...

... , which presented materials from the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies' Sexual Representation Collection and the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives at the University of Toronto's iSchool. The exhibit explored intersections between trans erotic representation and BDSM, gay liberation, Playboy' s...

... believe that feminist theory and practice are critical tools in the struggle for trans liberation, and that the social oppression of transgender people is intimately connected with the larger structures of patriarchy that feminisms seek to counteract. Their praxis has worked its way up from walking the...

... antiviolence organizing for decades. In this interview Gentili discusses her recent performance The Knife Cuts Both Ways , the limits of trans narratives and representation, and how she pushes at the thresholds of those limits such that they seem to break, fold, and corrupt. Gentili refuses the liberal...

... khwaja siras are turning away from the spaces of legitimacy that Sufism once offered and toward the liberal language of human rights to make claims for recognition, the author argues that these pious performances continue to provide a potent force for transgender activism in Pakistan. Much has been...

... that the law does not recognize the specificity of the transvestite identity or its patent inequality, and it reintroduces the binary man/woman categories because it is capable of sanctioning only on the basis of a general population and within a liberal framework of state recognition. In this article...

... the rebellion, while the critical role that transgender women, many of color, played in these advances has slipped deep into unseen corners of historical memory. This forgetting is both a symptom and cause of the continued erasure of transgender people, especially transgender women of color, from...

... not lost its object. There is still plenty for trans women—and those of us who see their inclusion and well-being as central to our own liberation—to be angry about. Because visibility as a trans woman in particular is equated with increased risk of discrimination and violence, it makes sense that...

...Horim Yi; Timothy Gitzen Abstract This article examines the South Korean military's treatment of trans people in the context of all “able-bodied men” being conscripted for two years. While trans men are exempt from service because they are not considered able-bodied men, trans women pose a...

... differing forms of identity. In the absence of an ontologically tenuous approach, a fractionalized account of feminist theory and movement is offered: second wavers versus third wavers, sex positivity versus antipornography, women of color feminists versus white liberal feminists, essentialists versus...

.... Based on relationships built over the last four years with trans women of color organizing inside a “male-designated” state prison in Corcoran, California, this article connects questions of deviant care as the refusal of the diagnosable and individuated self through queer black/indigenous feminist of...

... theorize black trans epistemology. In their article “‘She Came to Liberate’: Janet Mock and Revolutionary Love among Trans Women,” Timothy S. Lyle ( 2017 ) explicates Mock's first memoir Redefining Realness and offers the term revolutionary love , a concept they note as first articulated during the...