TERF Quotes
The first post in this blog is simply going to hi-light some actual quotes from the TERF community. If you would like to have quotes added to this list please sign up for an account on twitlonger.com, post as much information in the twitlonger as you can and then tweet it to #terfquotes. UPDATE: Aftermath of supposed cancellation of radfem2013 Bev Jo: They expect we’ll be shocked to see statistics about them being killed, and don’t realize, some of us wish they would ALL be dead. Luckynkl: SCAMs (Surgically and Chemically Altered Males) are nothing more than MRAs (Men’s Rights Activists) in dresses. Bev Jo: Male supremacists who want to skin real women to wear as their “womanly” guise. They WOULD be a boring joke, except for the many women who support them. It’s all about saying no to men who won’t take no for an answer, except this group
The Source Summary reproduces the first 150 words of the source article unless a Collective editor has explicitly locked a replacement.
Why this article may matter
Community significance
“TERF Quotes” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. 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 feminism and gender politics. Published in 2013 by The TERFs, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community51%
- 3Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict42%
- 4Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life37%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community30%
- 6Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community28%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 260%
- 330%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 2100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
- Related theme in the same family
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
Academic framings in this topic
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Documented circulation and reception
No broad reception evidence has been documented yet; this may reflect unconfigured or incomplete indexes rather than an absence of circulation. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Coverage of the evidence search
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Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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Examines a closely shared theme in greater detail or with a more specialized framing.
UPDATE: Aftermath of supposed cancellation of radfem2013 Bev Jo: They expect we’ll be shocked to see statistics about them being killed, and don’t realize, some of us wish…