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5,000+ people agree: TERF group is a hate group

The nonprofit, Secular Women has created a petition calling on the Southern Poverty Law Center to regard TERF attorney, Cathy Brennan’s group, Gender Identity Watch, as a hate group. The petition starts off, “As…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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A RadFem on TERF nonsense

What follows are the statements of a Radical Feminist, Alexandria Brown of Techno Feminist Utopia who rejects TERF dogma: There is a mortifying, first-wave essentialist transphobia constructing straw arguments about trans politics and glibly…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
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[UPDATED] The Cover-up of a MichFest Rape

While much has been said about the intentional exclusion of trans women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, almost nothing is written about rapes that occur at MichFest. The festival is rhetorically constructed to…

Culture, identity, and representationEducation and youth
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Is Briscoe “Gun Nut” Cain a closet queen?

If you know anything about the queer community, you’re familiar with the stereotype of the closeted dude who lives a lie by pretending to be Mr. Manly Man. You know, the guy who can’t…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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And we’re back

Apparently my research blog has been down for a few weeks. I just learned about it when I went to add some content today. After an hour of fiddling with my database, I tracked…

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A Cotton Ceiling Conspiracy Rebranding: Super Straight

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…

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Why “biological sex” is not real

I know, I know. When you hear me say that biological sex isn’t real, you hear that I’m saying that the sexed attributes of a body aren’t real, that having sex isn’t real, and…

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