Posts tagged: trans

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  “I’m not transphobic, but…”: A feminist case against the feminist case against trans inclusivity

  This Friday, the 19th October, the Government's consultation on a proposed reform of the Gender Recognition Act will close. The process has become a focal point for a heated and often toxic debate over what we as a society owe to trans people, and how the claims of the trans community relate to the characteristic commitments and concerns of feminism. In this article, Lorna Finlayson, Katharine Jenkins, and Rosie Worsdale make the feminist case for trans inclusivity.

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  Trans Ethics, Not Gender Ideology: Against the Church and the Gender Critics

  While the Catholic Church and transphobic feminists alike paint trans activists as propagandists of "gender ideology," trans people have achieved gains in recent years by working not as ideologues, but ethical instructors.

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  Cis Fears and Transphobia: How Not to Debate Gender

  A recent call for philosophical debate on gender illustrates how purportedly neutral analyses can be mobilized to reproduce run-of-the-mill transphobia. 

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  Thinking in Alliance: An Interview with Judith Butler

  "For me, the task is not to find a single or synthetic framework, but to find a way of thinking in alliance."

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  Jessie Kindig introduces Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo

  "Women have always, it turns out, told about sexual violence, fought it, struggled to write it and say it. Women have fought to tell it to themselves" – Jessie Kindig introduces Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo

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  Shifting Objectives: On Methodology and Identity Politics

  Recent controversies in philosophy and sociology illustrate that identity-based dismissals do not seek to strengthen the quality of academic conversation, but rather employ ad hominem fallacies to re-assert hierarchies of knowledge, discourse, and personhoods.

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  Feminism for the 99% and the Compulsion to Repeat: Reflections on Gender, Labor, and Language

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  Cruising in the End Times: An Interview with Che Gossett

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  Pulse, Beat, Rhythm, Cry: Orlando and the queer and trans necropolitics of loss and mourning

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  All Cops Are Bastards. Even The Gay Ones

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  #Killallmen: 7 things you need to know about the SCUM Manifesto

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  "We have to think intersectionally"—Yishay Garbasz on the politics of allyship and solidarity