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What a 90s Cartoon Can Teach Us about TERFs

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By Lisa Kalayji Do you remember the 1990s MTV cartoon Daria? If you’re old enough and young enough, you probably do. For those who missed it or are enjoying the memory slippages which apparently start at a lot earlier age than our parents told us they would, Daria was a cartoon series about a highly intelligent, cynical, and socially outcast teenaged girl, and she has something to teach us about the logic which gives rise to trans-exclusive radical feminism. In the third episode of season two, Daria’s vapid, vain, and socially worshipped younger sister, Quinn, writes a marginally decent essay for a class, which is then enthusiastically shared with her class by her teacher, much to Quinn’s mortification. Rather than the expected social backlash of being academically adept, however, Quinn experiences a surge in her popularity, and her apparent wits are coveted rather than maligned and ridiculed. This new adoration

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Community significance

“What a 90s Cartoon Can Teach Us about TERFs” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging culture, identity, and representation. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “What a 90s Cartoon Can Teach Us about TERFs” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to culture, identity, and representation. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“What a 90s Cartoon Can Teach Us about TERFs” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with feminism and gender politics. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for culture, identity, and representation.

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
40%
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History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
16%
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
16%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
8%
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
8%

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Sociological analysis
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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16 2007

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3 2009

2 2010

7 2011

9 2012

94 2013

44 2014

21 2015

21 2016

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7 2018

3 2019

3 2020

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Article authors

Author profiles and related researchers

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57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

319 publications · 3,580 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.