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You Can’t Smash Patriarchy With Transphobia

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This guest post is from Ray Filar. Filar is a feminist writer, freelance journalist, and Gender Studies graduate student. Her work has been featured in various blogs and magazines, including Comment is free, Pink News, openDemocracy, The F Word, and Liberal Conspiracy. She writes a blog called Political Correctness Gone Mad. If you like outpourings of anger against gender fascism whittled down into digestible 140 character chunks, you could follow her twitter on @rayfilar. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” – Simone de Beauvoir People chat a lot of shit about radical feminism, mostly because they don’t know what it is. Unsurprisingly, it regularly makes the top five on well-known television programme, Most Widely Misrepresented Ideologies (a show I would be happy to create and host, if there are any BBC commissioners reading this). It’s a shocking, challenging kind of feminism and deliberately so. Common to all

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Community significance

“You Can’t Smash Patriarchy With Transphobia” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging education and youth. 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 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “You Can’t Smash Patriarchy With Transphobia” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

“You Can’t Smash Patriarchy With Transphobia” 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 education and youth.

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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

  1. 1
    Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    100%
  2. 2
    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    10%
  3. 3
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    8%
  4. 4
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    5%
  5. 5
    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    4%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%
Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Feminism and gender politics to Education and youth: Separate but related
Education and youth
Feminism and gender politics to Transgender identity and history: Separate but related
Transgender identity and history
Feminism and gender politics to Community and organizing: Separate but related
Community and organizing
Feminism and gender politics to Healthcare and medicine: Separate but related
Healthcare and medicine
Feminism and gender politicsRank 1
Relationship key
  • Separate but related themes
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This article appeared 2 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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Article authors

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Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

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

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Mari

6 publications · 80 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

Gwen Smith

15 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Culture, identity, and representation.

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