Search Results for women-of-color feminism

... that focalize the writing, activism, and performance work of trans women of color. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transmisogyny transmisogynoir Black feminism women-of-color feminism intersectionality We are living in a moment in which it is common practice among trans activists...

..., 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...

... is precisely what feminism and transfeminism do when they work in the legacies of women-of-color feminism or other gendered interrogations of race, colonization, and empire, as in leading work in trans studies today. From these histories, I learned to notice whenever discussions of trans and race, or of race...

... the homogeneity of the white, straight, and abstract subject of feminism. As did lesbian feminists, feminists of color, queer feminists, and cyber feminists before us, trans people are fighting feminism's exclusionary tendencies ( Dorvil 2007 ). Since no definition of “oppression applies to all women any time...

... feminist and Black queer studies theory to deconstruct constructions of transmisogyny coming from popular culture and queer studies. Krell questions to what extent transmisogyny instrumentalizes Black transwomen while universalizing whiteness, and sketches out trans-of-color feminisms from within...

... 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...

...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...

... intention, each one it's own possible life, and I feel the strangeness of this mind and these feelings, 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...

... decolonial feminism transgender studies and women of color feminisms Loretta Ross, cofounder of SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, claims that the designation women of color since its inception in the late 1970s cannot possibly rely on a biological “basic identity” ( Ross...

..., the relevance of the new materialism for trans studies, khwaja sira activism in Pakistan, radical hip-hop in Germany, grass-roots health activism in the United States and Latin America, questions of assisted reproduction for trans women of color in the United States, decolonial readings of gender diversity...

... of that suffusion began as historiography—making sense of what had transpired in the interdisciplines as they relied on Marxist, black, queer, and women of color feminisms since the 1980s—to unsettle our senses of the current juncture. Following the provocations of “The Issue of Blackness,” the 2017 TSQ issue...

... of women who were cisgender, white, and class privileged. In some ways, this echoes the many critiques of feminism from women of color feminists that form the basis for intersectional feminist analyses ( Combahee River Collective [1977] 1983 ; Crenshaw 1989 ). The women-centered nature of some feminist...

.... 7. I am borrowing here from BattyMamzelle's 2014 analysis of “White Feminism” as “a set of beliefs that allows for the exclusion of issues that specifically affect women of colour … [as] a method of practicing feminism, not an indictment of every individual white feminist everywhere.” I am also...

...: rules of conduct that direct girls toward boys and that render heterosexuality the right or best or happiest destination. I write this contribution as a woman of color who finds that gender norms so often remain predicated on an unremarkable whiteness: the evocation of a fragile female body who needs...

... ignorance, if not outright suppression, of Black and women of color feminisms. Perhaps this explains the popular equivalence between being trans and the performance of blackface: the conflation weaponizes lip-service outrage against anti-Blackness bereft of historical consciousness or consideration...

... Girls: A Lesbian Anthology , Evelyn Torton Beck ( 1982a : 9) notes, “I didn't really become very Jewish-identified until I was deeply immersed in lesbian feminism and working on racism, trying to integrate women of color into all my courses. . . . I became very aware of the fact that the one group...

..., cissexist reality so as to make perceptible a future when trans people, queer people, people of color, and all women and femmes are free. References Bailey Moya . 2015 . “ #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics ” Digital Humanities...

... article in this issue, “Pregnancy: Reproductive Futures in Trans of Color Feminism,” demonstrates very concretely how a capacious understanding of reproductive justice can't be contained within the usual dividing lines—between trans and cis, between trans men and trans women, between men and women...

... argues that racism and sexism cannot be treated separately as single oppressions, especially when considering the lives of black women ( Crenshaw 1989 ). The history of intersectional feminism demonstrates that the theory is grounded in a trans-of-color analysis of the racial caste system known as “Jim...

... transdisciplinary inquiries and methodologies in and beyond the classroom, drawing on critical race theory, queer theory, women of color feminisms, queer-of-color critique, sovereign erotics, affirming clinical research, embodied knowledges, experience as evidence, human rights studies, pleasure activism...