You Can’t Smash Patriarchy With Transphobia
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.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life10%
- 3Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community8%
- 4Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community5%
- 5Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life4%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Feminism and gender politics” 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.
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history186
- Community and organizing161
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization112
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse76
- Law and civil rights69
- Culture, identity, and representation68
- Education and youth52
- Healthcare and medicine48
- History, archives, and memory42
- Science, evidence, and expertise33
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