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Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms

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The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born […]

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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 2 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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  1. Transadvocate.com840
  2. Cristan’s Research83
  3. The TERFs52

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  2. Law and civil rights424
  3. Education and youth273
  4. Culture, identity, and representation270
  5. Media, rhetoric, and discourse218
  6. History, archives, and memory214
  7. Violence, safety, and dehumanization213
  8. Healthcare and medicine197
  9. Public policy and governance181
  10. Feminism and gender politics178

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  3. Clinical and medical analysis165
  4. Psychological analysis138
  5. Qualitative and interview research112
  6. Media and discourse analysis103
  7. Critical theory72
  8. Empirical and quantitative research62

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  3. Criminal justice and public safety119
  4. Elections and democratic governance94
  5. Research ethics and data governance71
  6. Labor and employment policy39
  7. Housing and social services38
  8. Administrative classification and identity documents35

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Collective citation

See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid

Cristan Williams · July 23, 2015

This post has to do with Tumblr TERFs trying to make the abuse a trans kid experienced by adult MichFest TERFs seem somehow okay. The abuse was witnessed by multiple individuals, specifically members of the Lesbian Avengers and a MichFest performer and member of Sister Spit, Nomy Lamm. The account…

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Rowan Atkinson makes more sense than BBC’s “Woman’s Hour”

Cristan Williams · April 19, 2015

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…

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TransAdvocate Suspending Its MichFest Petition Signature

Autumn Sandeen · April 12, 2015

We at the TransAdvocate are making a good-faith effort to engage MichFest in dialogue with the goal of a reconciliation that will bring an end to the decades of trauma the MichFest, trans and feminist communities have experienced. So, we at The TransAdvocate are giving pause; we’re giving space. We’re…

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Article authors

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Related authors in the Collective corpus

Guest

57 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 17 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 8 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Mari

6 publications · 10 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 9 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 4 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 14 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

5 publications · 3 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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#TERFweek starts now!

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

What it is #TERFweek is a week of education, raising awareness and openly talking about the abuse our communities have endured at the hands of the Trans Exclusionary…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0452-D745
Related academic framing

#TERFweek starts now!

Approaches the shared subject through a related analytical or disciplinary frame.

What it is #TERFweek is a week of education, raising awareness and openly talking about the abuse our communities have endured at the hands of the Trans Exclusionary……

The TERFsCAN-0000-0172-DE7B
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See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid

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Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten to trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason. Apparently some TERFs… Continue readingSee Tumblr…

The TERFsCAN-0000-0162-B033