Muggs Fogarty - “Ritual” (IWPS 2015)
“…and so I wrap them so carefully, as if bandaging a still healing wound, or, as if casting the most sacred of spells. Half a hex on this grey world, half a love spell on myself.”
Muggs Fogarty - “Ritual” (IWPS 2015)
Anti-TERF/biological essentialism resources
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This list is a work in progress & is always growing. If you have any suggestions of additional links, please submit or add on.
What is a TERF?
- You might be a TERF if…
- TERFs aren’t really all that radical, anyway
- Trans-exclusionary radical feminism: what exactly is it, and why does it hurt?
- Ways in which TERFs are similar to other hate groups
Biological essentialism is harmful
It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny – Using debunked science as a scapegoat for transmisogyny? Don’t do that.
- Bilaterally Gynandromorphic Chickens, and Why I’m Not “Scientifically” Male
- Intersex society of America: What is intersex?
Common misconceptions
Scientific studies/resources
- Why Male and Female are Not Enough, by Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Medical historian, psychiatrist, and UCLA clinician Vernon Rosario, for example, notes that sex is “a polymorphic and multifactorial model” that must take into account dozens of genes, chromosomes and environmental factors. Even in orthodox biology, it seems, sex is no longer as simple as XX or XY.
- The many non-XX-or-XY combinations of chromosomes
- Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
- The two-sex system is a historically recent and culturally specific understanding of sex grounded in the Enlightenment.
UNFUNNY TRANSPHOBIC TROPES + TRANS COMEDY
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From Ace Ventura’s Lois Einhorn to crossdressing solidiers in Disney’s Mulan, transmisogynistic tropes have been a central part of contemporary comedy. Transgender representation has come a long way, so do these tropes still have a place in comedy?
In this video, I discuss transphobia in comedy and offer up some great trans comedians to look out for.
Oh yeah, we mixed with lesbians. We always got along back then. All that division between the lesbian women and queens came after 1974 when Jane O'Leary and the radical lesbians came up. The radicals did not accept us or masculine-looking women who looked like men. And those lesbian women might not even have been trans. But we did get along famously in the early 60’s. I’ve been to many a dyke party… The lesbian community today has a lot to learn from the old ways of the lesbian community.
—Sylvia Rivera (via montagnarde)
