Radical Lesbian Separatism in LGBT Activism: Hyding in Plain Sight?
I recently posted “Transphobic Radical Hate Didn’t Start With Brennan: The Sandy Stone-Olivia Records Controversy” to point to the past of anti-trans radical feminist bigotry. Pointing out the past is important in building a unified future. You can’t simply ignore people inside the “LGBT” community who foster hatred and fear against you. There are lesbian radical feminists in the community that wish to “challenge the practice of transgenderism“. I don’t wish to silence dialogue, but there’s a certain line of what is acceptable to discuss in public. Gay rights icon, Bayard Rustin said: “Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they
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Community significance
“Radical Lesbian Separatism in LGBT Activism: Hyding in Plain Sight?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to community and organizing, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning community and organizing. Published in 2011 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how law and civil rights was framed at that moment.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to community and organizing and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life46%
- 3Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict36%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community20%
- 5History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication11%
- 6Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life7%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 250%
Policy framing
- 1100%
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How “Community and organizing” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history531
- Law and civil rights300
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization187
- Education and youth177
- Culture, identity, and representation174
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse171
- Feminism and gender politics165
- History, archives, and memory158
- Public policy and governance132
- Labor, economics, and institutions124
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- Civil rights and anti-discrimination122
- Public accommodations and facilities104
- Criminal justice and public safety82
- Elections and democratic governance70
- Research ethics and data governance51
- Housing and social services25
- Administrative classification and identity documents23
- Labor and employment policy22
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18 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 4 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2011–2015. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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[…] That Sue Hyde. […]
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[...] LGs is ever too much to expect trans women to forgive and forget (how many decades now has Sue Hyde, signatory to the letter demanding that Olivia Records fire Sandy Stone, been collecting paychecks [...]
Is NGLTF’s Executive Director, Rea Carey, a Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist? | The Transadvocate
[...] that NGLTF’s Sue Hyde has never made an official apology to Sandy Stone concerning the letter Sue signed trying to get Stone fired from the Olivia Records for being trans, a sign that being a TERF within the walls of NGLTF is “A [...]
Almost Two Years Later… | ENDABlog 2.0
[...] Hyde, self-forgiving at TransAdvocate back in [...]
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[...] Advocacy of discrimination against trans women by 1970s lesbian separatists who are now allowed to earn a living by claiming to give a damn about discrimination faced by trans ... [...]
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[...] trans-inclusive gay rights organization that still sees no problem with employing not only Sue Hyde but also a non-trans person as its trans law [...]
The Line is Hereby Drawn… « ENDAblog
[...] Not just the overly-privileged, corporatist psychopaths (one of whom may be trans herself; she still seems unwilling to address the very valid question) who prance around pretending to have a legitimate connection to the concept of feminism and who have engaged in the latest round of what,…
Memo to The John’s Transphobic Greek Chorus at AmericaBleech « ENDAblog
[...] trans people who have never been considered for employment by NGLTF during the time period that Sue ‘I openly supported discrimination against trans women when it was convenient, but now I w... should view ourselves as being comfortably ensconced in the royal quite of…
Nice Try, Bess « ENDAblog
[...] upon a time certain people who don’t like the fact that certain other people acknowledged the reality that... even though plenty of women in that organization did recognize the reality that that transsexual [...]
Apply This Principle to the Disgusting Underrepresentation of Trans Women in the Gay Rights Industry « ENDAblog
[...] there are not people in the gay rights industry with the power to hire and fire who do not have a Sue Hyde ca. 1977 attitude toward the notion of working with transsexual women? Remind me [...]
Today’s Lesson in Rhetorical Anti-Excellence: How to Overplay a Hand to the Point of Turning it into a Gangrenous Foot | The Transadvocate
[...] certainly don’t want any Gay, Inc. vampires or Raymondistic trans-exterminationist vampires (first or second generation) in my house, is it really accurate to say that merely mentioning a vampire [...]
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Today’s Lesson in Rhetorical Anti-Excellence: How to Overplay a Hand to the Point of Turning it into a Gangrenous Foot « ENDAblog
[...] certainly don’t want any Gay, Inc. vampires or Raymondistic trans-exterminationist vampires (first or second generation) in my house, is it really accurate to say that merely mentioning a vampire [...]
The Phantom Penance | The Transadvocate
[...] And, no, the person affiliated with NGLTF to whom I refer above was not Sue Hyde. [...]
The Phantom Penance « ENDAblog
[...] And, no, the person affiliated with NGLTF to whom I refer above was not Sue Hyde. [...]
Didn’t the Catholic Church Forgive Itself for the Inquisition? « ENDAblog
[...] And, no, the person affiliated with NGLTF to whom I refer above was not Sue Hyde. [...]
Radical Lesbian Separatism in LGBT Activism: Hyding in Plain Sight; VA Focusing on Women Veterans; Obama’s Plan to Jumpstart Jobs; and more… » DailyQueerNews.com
[...] Radical Lesbian Separatism in LGBT Activism: Hyding in Plain Sight. Read more [...]
In Dialogue With Sue Hyde: “I Am Deeply Regretful and Sorry” | The Transadvocate
[...] Hyde recently responded to “Radical Lesbian Separatism in LGBT Activism: Hyding in Plain Sight?” in the [...]
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