trans issues
There’s a Lot of Ways of Being Us: Jennifer Finney Boylan on Transgender Advocacy, Her Writing Career, and Caitlyn Jenner
There are now enough transgender writers that we don’t always have to talk about the experience of being trans and the cliche of transition.
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Channeling Audre: Janet Mock Opens Up About Her Memoir, Sex Work, and Being An Icon
Janet Mock is no longer offering a 101 master class on trans identity.
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Popaganda: Video Games and Identity
Video games are a huge piece of our pop culture industry. People who don’t play games maybe think that they’re a weird, dorky niche that only a few people play. But that’s exactly the opposite of true. Globally, video games are a $91 billion industry. Fifty-nine percent of people in... Read more »
Poetic Resistance Against Everyday Transphobia, Racism, Ableism: A Review of "When the Chant Comes"
Within its pages, When the Chant Comes delivers profound, often gut-wrenching meditations that explore what it means for Barrett to navigate life in the United States as a disabled, pilipinx-amerikan, transgender queer.
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Some Of Us Are Brave: A Roundtable on Feminist Icons and Responsibility
What to do about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lena Dunham, and, even Beysus—all of whom have made contributions to feminism, but have also said and done things contrary to feminist values? We assembled a diverse group of feminists to talk it out.
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The (Femme) Fire This Time: Gender-creative South African artists reimagine femininity
“Here we are in a space where we have the freedom to really build our own ideologies and imagine and re-imagine them.”
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Backtalk: Adichie's Transphobic Remarks & Trouble at Thinx
Dahlia and Amy discuss the latest in our problematic faves: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s transphobic remarks. Bitch Media’s Global Feminism Writing Fellow, Aqdas Aftab’s piece, “Reading Chimamanda Adichie... Read more »
Creating a Lush World of Trans Woman Literature: An Interview with Writer and Fierce Trans Femme, Kai Cheng Thom
So on the one hand, famous trans writers are elevated into this intensely fetishized status, and then on the other, they’re taken down and exiled for not being good enough.
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Reading Chimamanda Adichie Today: On Racism and transphobia in feminism
I had to wonder how Adichie’s recent responses to trans folks failed her own feminist politics in her new book, Dear Ijeawele.
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Up in Flames: "Woman on Fire" Tells a Trans Woman's Story, But It's Not For Trans People
Woman on Fire is a feel-good story that isn’t concerned so much with its titular character’s arc as with the journeys of the people who surround her.
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