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The Observer photograph [TW: Sexual Assault]

The Observer recently featured a photograph of a tourist casually sexually assaulting a trans feminine performer by slipping his hand under her dress and squeezing her breast while posing for a picture. The photo…

History, archives, and memoryViolence, safety, and dehumanization
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TERF: what it means and where it came from

Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERF) are quick to make fact assertions about the term, TERF. According to TERFs, the term is a slur and use of the term makes one a misogynist. Others assert…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Moving trans* history forward symposium

[su_dallasdennytop] Left to Right: Ariadne Kane, Viviane Namaste, Susan Styker. Photo by Dr. Aaron Devor. You can never go wrong when you hang out with Ms. Bob Davis. Seriously. Ms. Bob is professor at…

Community and organizingEducation and youth
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Tranny: An Evidence-Based Review

Discourse surrounding the term tranny has become more than a little heated. In fact, a RuPaul Drag Race runner-up enacted the mock execution of a trans woman named Parker Molloy for the apparent crime…

Community and organizingHistory, archives, and memory
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Transgender*: The Rhetorical Landscape of a Term

The following is a peer-reviewed paper originally published in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. The article was co-authored by the TransAdvocate Editor, Cristan Williams and Dr. Rawson of the College of…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation