[UPDATED] Cotton Ceiling: Uncovering the trans conspiracy to rape lesbians
The mere mention of the “cotton ceiling” should send rapey shivers up your spine. If you’ve not heard of it here’s the lowdown from feminists: […]
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesA Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight
TERFs asserted that the Cotton Ceiling was a conspiracy on the part of trans people to sexually assault cis people, cis Lesbains in particular. Read an insightful interview with Cathy Brennan concerning her Conspiracy work, its assimilation into the far-right, and her self-identity as a TERF here. Promotion of Cotton…
Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
TERFs have continued to employ their bullying tactics, irrespective of the cost to trans people and their publicly obdurate behavior is always carried out in the name of feminism. Power, in a Foucaultian sense, isn’t just about the power of law and institutions; power is also about the uptake of…
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An internal discussion within the trans community, originally known as the Cotton Ceiling, concerned itself with the way physical cisnormative beauty standards impact notions of desirability, how these biases relate to the fetishization of trans people, how it impacts the perception of trans people in queer spaces, and how these…
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