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Radical Feminism and Trans Rights

Feminist Frictions:
Radical Feminism and Trans Rights

Digital Archive:
Radical Feminism and Trans Rights

Accompanying Breanne Fahs’s Feminist Frictions essay,
“The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today“

Other Digital Archive Pages:

Theorizing Radical Feminism

Radical Feminist History

General Overviews and Histories

 

Beth Elliott, on stage, awaits the outcome of a spontaneously called vote about whether she can continue with her invited performance at the West Coast Lesbian Conference.
Los Angeles Free Press, April 20, 1973

Enke, Finn. “Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Toward a Less Plausible History.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2018): 9–29. doi:10.1215/23289252-4291502.

 

TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism No. 3 (Winter 1994), courtesy of https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/bg257f11m

 

Sandy Stone at Olivia Records, https://www.transadvocate.com/terf-violence-and-sandy-stone_n_14360.htm

 


 

Signs Articles

Awkward-Rich, Cameron. “Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading like a Depressed Transsexual.” Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 4 (2017): 819-841.

Basiliere, Jae. 2019. “Staging Dissents: Drag Kings, Resistance, and Feminist Masculinities.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44 (4): 979–1001.

Bettcher, Talia Mae. “Trapped in the wrong theory: Rethinking trans oppression and resistance.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39, no. 2 (2014): 383-406.

Connell, Raewyn. “Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 37, no. 4, 2012, pp. 857–881. JSTOR.

Heyes, Cressida J. 2003. “Feminist Solidarity after Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 (4): 1093–1120.

Karhu, Sanna. “Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47, no. 2 (2022): 295-317.

Malatino, Hil. “The Promise of Repair: Trans Rage and the Limits of Feminist Coalition.” Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no. 4 (2021): 827-851.

Stryker, Susan, and V Varun Chaudhry. 2022. “Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 47 (3): 789–800.

 

Manifesto

Koyama, Emi. 2020. “The Transfeminist Manifesto”. In Feminist Theory Reader, by Carole R. McCann, Seung-kyung Kim, and Emek Ergun, edited by Carole McCann, Seung-kyung Kim, and Emek Ergun, 5th ed., 83–90. Fifth edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge.

 

Books

Bornstein, Kate, and S. Bear Bergman. Gender outlaws: The next generation. Seal Press, 2010.

Coyote, Ivan, and Rae Spoon. Gender failure. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014.

Erickson-Schroth Laura. 2014. Trans Bodies. Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford:

Oxford University Press. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10867986.

Feinberg, Leslie. Transgender liberation: A movement whose time has come. Routledge, 2013.

Feinberg, Leslie. Trans liberation: Beyond pink or blue. Beacon Press, 1999.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. Histories of the transgender child. U of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton, eds. Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, New Museum, 2017.

Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Seal Press, 2007.

Serano, Julia. Sexed Up.

Stanley, Eric A. 2015. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. AK Press.

Stryker, Susan. Transgender history: The roots of today’s revolution. Hachette UK, 2017.

Stryker. Susan, Stephen Whittle, and Aren Z Aizura. 2013. The Transgender Studies Reader 1 and 2. New York NY: Routledge.

Sycamore. Mattilda Bernstein. 2006. Nobody Passes : Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Emeryville CA: Seal Press.

 

Special Issues:

Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 1, 2022

Trans/Feminisms, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 1-2, 2016

Ruth Pearce, Sonja Eirkainen, and Ben Vincent. TERF Wars: Feminism and the Fight for Transgender Futures. The Sociological Review 68 no. 4 (Aug 2020).

 

Scholarly Articles

Ahmed, Sara. “An Affinity of Hammers.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 1–2 (2016): 22–34. doi:10.1215/23289252-3334151.

Benavente, Gabby, and Julian Gill-Peterson. “The promise of trans critique: Susan Stryker’s queer theory.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25, no. 1 (2019): 23-28.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. “Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the TERF’s nightmare.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 26, no. 2 (2022): 133-147.

Jack Halberstam. “Toward a Trans* Feminism.” Boston Review, January 18, 2018.

Williams, Cristan. “Radical inclusion: Recounting the trans inclusive history of radical feminism.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 1-2 (2016): 254-258.

Aleardo Zanghellini. “Philosophical Problems With the Gender-Critical Feminist Argument Against Trans Inclusion.” SAGE Open 10 no. 2 (April-June 2020)

Sally Hines. “The feminist frontier: on trans and feminism.” Journal of Gender Studies 28 no. 2 (Jan 2019): 145–157

Enke, Finn. “Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Toward a Less Plausible History.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2018): 9–29. doi:10.1215/23289252-4291502.

Heaney, Emma. “Women-identified women: Trans women in 1970s lesbian feminist organizing.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 1-2 (2016): 137-145.

Keegan, Cael M. “On being the object of compromise.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 1-2 (2016): 150-157.

Finn Mackay. “Radical Feminism.” Theory, Culture & Society 32 no. 7-8 (2015): 332-336.

Thomsen, C., & Essig, L. (2021). “Lesbian, feminist, TERF: a queer attack on feminist studies.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 1-18.

Bey, Marquis, Grace Lavery, Jules Gill-Peterson. (2020). ‘The TERF Industrial Complex: Transphobia, Feminism and Race.’ The Feminist Present, Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pHGU6WxVKCFrGVV9zZ9dy

Stone, Sandy. “The Empire strikes back: A posttransexual manifesto.” Body guards: The cultural politics of gender ambiguity. New York: Routledge. 1991. pp. 280–304.

Stryker, Susan. “My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: Performing transgender rage.” GLQ: A Journal of gay and lesbian studies, 1 (3): 237–54. 1994.

Stryker, Susan. “More Words About ‘My Words To Victor Frankenstein.’” GLQ 25, no. 1 (2019): 39–44.

Stryker, Susan. “Radical Queen.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 3, no. 1-2 (2016): 278–84.

Stryker, Susan. “Lesbian Generations—Transsexual… Lesbian… Feminist.” Feminist Studies 39, no. 2 (2013): 375–83.

 

News Articles

Proudman, Charlotte. “Opinion: Being a Radical Feminist Means Being a Trans Ally at the Same Time.” The Independent, July 28, 2022. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/terf-trans-feminism-gender-b2131456.html

Catharine A. MacKinnon, and Cristan Williams. “Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: The Transadvocate Interviews Catharine A. MacKinnon.” TransAdvocate, January 17, 2020.

Fitzgerald, Madeline. n.d. “It’s Not Just J.K. Rowling: The Roots of Anti-Trans Ideology in the U.K.” US News & World Report. Accessed October 14, 2022.

Forde, Morgan. 2022. “The Obscured and Forgotten History of Black Communist Women,” November 7, 2022.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. “From gender critical to QAnon: Anti-trans politics and the laundering of conspiracy.” The New Inquiry, 2021.

Gill-Peterson, Jules. “Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend.’” New York Times (Online). 2021.

Lynne Stahl. “The latest form of transphobia: Saying lesbians are going extinct.” The Washington Post, March 19, 2021.

Jennifer Saul. “Why the words we use matter when describing anti-trans activists.” The Conversation, March 5, 2020.

Stacey Henley. “I’m a Trans Woman and This Is Why I Hate the Word TERF.” Huffpost UK, February 8, 2020.

Ray Briggs. “Why trans-inclusive language is no threat to cis women.” Aeon, March 29, 2019.

Emelie Johansson. “The Murky Waters Of Trans-Exclusionary Feminism: A Closer Look At The Transphobic Co-Optation Of Women’s Rights.” Human Rights Pulse, March 26, 2021

Gleeson, Jules. Interview with Judith Butler. “Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman.’” The Guardian. September 7, 2021

Jude S. Ellison Doyle. “How the far-right is turning feminists into fascists.” Xtra Magazine, April 1, 2022.

Doyle. America’s anti-abortion agenda is also anti-trans. Xtra Magazine, November 3, 2021.

Doyle. Anti-Trans Extremists ‘Come For’ Doctors. Ms. Magazine, March 30, 2022.

Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir. “We should be very worried the UK’s been called out for slipping on LGBT+ rights.” Metro, February 9, 2022.

Julian Vile. “A TERF-Far Right Alliance Has Launched a New Transphobic Onslaught.” Left Voice, December 7, 2021.

Kayley Whalen. “The TERF to Fascist Pipeline: How the Right Appropriates Feminism.” YouTube , November 17, 2021.

Jules Gill-Peterson. “From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy.” The New Inquiry, September 13, 2021.

Proudman, Charlotte. “Opinion: Being a Radical Feminist Means Being a Trans Ally at the Same Time.” The Independent. July 28, 2022.

Alyosxa Tudor. “Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia.” LSE Blog. June 2020.

Heron Greensmith. “Racism in Anti-Trans “Feminist” Activism.” Political Research Associates, February 20, 2019.

Shannon Weber. “Anti-Trans “Feminists” Converted My Friend: Here’s Why We Can’t Stay Silent.” The Body is Not an Apology, September 5, 2018.

Lewis, Sophie. 2019. “How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans.” New York Times, February 7 2019.

Multimedia:

Films

Before Stonewall. Directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. Color and Black and White, 87 min. 1985.

Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. Directed by Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker. Color, 57 min. 2005.

Gabriel, Davina Anne, and Skyclad Publishing Co.. “TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism No. 2 (Nov.-Dec. 1993).” Periodical. 1993. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/b8515n434

 

Podcast

Bey, Marquis, Grace Lavery, Jules Gill-Peterson. (2020). ‘The TERF Industrial Complex: Transphobia, Feminism and Race.’ The Feminist Present, Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pHGU6WxVKCFrGVV9zZ9dy

“Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker Discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry.” n.d. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (blog). Accessed December 6, 2022.http://signsjournal.org/stryker/.

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