That time TERFs beat RadFems for protecting a trans woman from their assault
Robin Tyler is an iconic Radical Feminist lesbian who talked with me about the ways she confronted TERF violence and oppression against trans women. We […]
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesTERF Academic Rewrites History
It’s telling that Jeffreys chooses to edit out of the “history” she’s selling (again, for $150 a pop) the fact that Morgan incited TERFs to violence, that TERFs began trying to physically assault trans women at the event after Morgan speech, or that TERFs physically beat cis Radical Feminist Lesbians…
Are Misogynist, Homophobe, & TERF slurs?
Were TERFs perpetuating the woman-hating they face when they attempted to publicly bash the trans woman, Beth Elliot, and instead beat the radical feminists who used their own bodies as a shield to protect her?
(Re)Introducing inclusive Radical Feminism
Pioneering lesbian activist Robin Tyler, who was beaten by sex essentialists for protecting a trans woman from their public bashing told me, “It has saddened me to witness what I know to be an inclusive and intersectional framework for liberation become tarnished by narratives focused on a minority of anti-trans…
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They attempted to bash this very trans woman on a Conference stage or that they physically assaulted radical feminists for protecting the trans woman from the beating
Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”
This article discusses the clash of ideology and lived experience as exemplified by a recent BBC radio program in the UK. This article uses the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) to distinguish between the trans-supportive Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, The Olivia Collective or the West Coast…
Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
Whereas the “woman-identified woman” framework gave rise to Lesbian-feminism, feminist collectives and feminist institutions such as the trans-inclusive West Coast Lesbian Conference – at that time, the largest gathering of Lesbian Feminists ever – and the Olivia women’s music collective, this framework experienced a nation-wide challenge when the organizer and…
Sex Essentialism: TERF patriarchy and smelly vaginas
When TERFs threatened all the Radical Feminists of Olivia with death unless they became trans-exclusive, was this the Radical Feminism of noted Radical Feminist opinion leader Catharine MacKinnon, who went on to represent trans women in legal cases and who worked to ensure that her women-centered legislative efforts were inclusive…
#TERFweek Redux
Even though the largest gathering of Lesbian Feminists ever voted to be trans inclusive, TERFs threatened to disrupt the conference unless trans women were excluded. This culminated in the TERF opinion leader, Robin Morgan inciting a TERF mob to violence. Real Radical Feminists were beaten by TERFs while attempting to…
A TERF’s fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women’s music festivals
What follows is a continuation of my interview with Radical Feminist lesbian icon, Robin Tyler. In the previous piece, Tyler talked about being beaten by TERFs for trying to protect a trans woman from their assault. In this portion of the interview, Tyler describes how a TERF’s fist at the…
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“Radical Feminists do not believe that males are raping and murdering because they were somehow “socialized” that way (which leads once again to women devoting even more time to change males.) There are clear biological, mental, and emotional differences between females and males.” – Bev “BevJo” Von Dohre, Pioneering TERF…
You might be a TERF if…
22.) Beat actual radical feminists for protecting trans women from a TERF bashing.
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