Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch supports ‘feminist’ bombing of American infrastructure
Maryland attorney and purported “radical feminist” Cathy Brennan founded and runs Gender Identity Watch (GIW), a TERF collective. Until now, the group’s support of real-life violence was only a matter of speculation. However, GIW has come out in support of another TERF organization, Deep Green Resistance (DGR). DGR also self-appointed itself “radical feminist” and propagates TERF ideology as if it were radical feminism. They enjoy quotemining radical feminist icons (who support trans people) like Dworkin and Mackinnon to support their TERF dogma. DGR cancelled it’s trans inclusive policy in 2012. A few years ago, DGR was in the news, clutching its perls, because a group of queer activists confronted the group at a left wing event. The group apparently had 1 or 2 trans people in it. The group put a few marker smudges on some of the group’s terrorism manuals and one DRG rep got a quarter-sized marker smudge
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Community significance
“Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch supports ‘feminist’ bombing of American infrastructure” 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 2015 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
“Cathy Brennan’s Gender Identity Watch supports ‘feminist’ bombing of American infrastructure” 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 transgender identity and history.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community33%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community18%
- 4Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community15%
- 5Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict13%
- 6Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life7%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 219%
- 319%
- 419%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 2 year(s) after the theme’s 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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Author profiles and related researchers
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Marian
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Cristan
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Kat
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
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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