Rose McGowan seeks to bask in the glow of a compassion only reserved for white women whilst the footprints of her Doc Martens are pressed into our backs. I employ what one could call a ‘survivor’s leniency’. As a complex PTSD sufferer because of multiple sexual assaults, and the recipient of intense therapeutic support which...
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2017 IS THE YEAR WHITE FEMINISM CHECKED HERSELF INTO HOSPICE AND REFUSED TO DIE
May white feminism stay and die in 2017. They have really outdone themselves. My newsfeed curation is constantly being managed by my trigger-happy fingers that have turned ‘unfollow’ into a reflex reaction. Yet, I can be laughing uproariously at some delicious black comedy and I know on the horizon Becky Conquistador waits in her boat...
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Don’t Be A TERF: Transmisogyny 101
We cannot divorce transmisogyny from its roots in both transmisia and misogyny, nor can we ignore the ways in which the patriarchy significantly and tangibly impacts trans women. Time and time again cis folks, including cis women, will invalidate trans women’s womanhood by claiming we do not experience oppression under cisheteropatriarchy. Cis women, for example,...
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#IfMenHadPeriods Ignores the Men Who Do Have Periods — And is Fueling the TERFs
Social media campaign #IfMenHadPeriods may be well-meaning, but it gets the whole struggle wrong. OB/GYN Jennifer Gunter created the hashtag, intending to illuminate the struggles that people with uteruses have, but completely ignored the trans population in the process. As we all know, intent does not mitigate impact. The problem with reducing folks to their genitalia...
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Dear Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists: I Don’t Actually Hate My Femininity
It was one of those nights that I couldn’t sleep. Even though I knew it was a bad idea, I kept scrolling through my phone at 3 a.m. after coming across a terrible website, and of course I kept reading and reading. It was a horribly trans- and queerphobic website that publicly bashes trans and...