Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
Get Your Agenda Off My Body
This post was originally published Sept 03, 2009 here. (As a note: This applies to womanism too, as womanism only fully expands the women’s rights lens to issues of race but still leaves trans women in the dust more often than not.) I’m sure we all have a pretty good idea of the cardinal elements […]
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Tags: bodily domain, feminism, gender, kyriarchy, patriarchy, rage, transgender, transphobia
This post was originally published August 31, 2009 here. In a discussion that originally was built around Kennedy’s pragmatic (but sucky) dropping of the trans community in the ENDA during the Bush era (on the post about Kennedy on Alas, A Blog), the topic eventually turned to the visibility of nonbinary folk as a part […]
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Tags: binarism, binary privilege, feminism, gid, rage, transgender
This post was originally published August 28, 2009 here. The “R” Word Series on Rape is a series of posts wherein individuals (not just me) describe their situations, challenging common views on healing and victim mentalities and challenging common conventions among society at large on rape. These posts may be immensely triggering. I would advise […]
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Tags: bodily domain, feminism, rape, sexual assault, society, the r word, violence
This post was originally published August 26, 2009 here. Ever heard the name Mary Jo Kopechne? No? What about the second run of the GLBT ENDA? No for that too? Well then boys and girls and all those who break out of the binary, I’ve got some stories to tell you. Let’s start with Mary […]
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Tags: feminism, fuck this fuckery, selective hearing, transgender, wtf
This post was originally published August 17, 2009 here. I also guest posted this one on Deeply Problematic. Much thanks to RMJ for letting me rant in her space. XD I thought I was going to wait on this one till tomorrow, but then I read through one of the most clear, beautifully written posts […]
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Tags: cis, feminism, for the uninformed, patriarchy, privilege, society, transgender
The Reality of Gender
This post was originally published August 06, 2009 here. There seems to be some serious misunderstandings going on about gender as a concept. It happens in the feminist community, it happens in the genderqueer community and the trans community and really, it happens everywhere. Some of these misunderstandings and misconceptions are simply an attempt to […]
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Tags: feminism, gender roles, identity, infighting, linguistics, self expression, transgender
Genderbitch: An Archive 