Tag Archives: privilege

Once More Unto The Breach

By Maddie | Published November 10, 2009

Further to my last entry, Elana is continuing to fight a good fight on Feministing with this post. I seriously doubt I will comment, I’m not even sure I want to read the comments that much once it gets going. But kudos, Elana, for a very, very, pertinent and well made point. And for continuing [...]

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Feministing and Unchecked Prejudice

By Maddie | Published November 5, 2009

I really would like to like Feministing. I’ve tried to. As others have called for boycotts to draw attention to transphobia there, or organised open letters to point out the ableism, blogged about the racism, I kept reading, kept wanting to find good in it. Thing is that sometimes there is. It’s a big site [...]

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Just Because

By Maddie | Published November 3, 2009

Just because you aren’t racist, doesn’t mean you never have a racist thought or say something racist.
If you aren’t homophobic, you will still sometimes express a bigoted sentiment.
Even if you are not sexist, sometimes you will say something or believe something that is.
If you don’t fear trans people, it doesn’t mean you don’t have transphobic [...]

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Cis the Third

By Maddie | Published July 2, 2009

Hello again and welcome back to my continuing current preoccupation with the words cis, cisgender and cissexual. Clearly I haven’t got my frustration out of my system yet. Quiet at the back, no groaning. Today I’m going to very quickly (no really, doing this at the length the conversations these are based on would need [...]

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And Even More Cis Use

By Maddie | Published July 1, 2009

As an update to my previous post, Cis I want to link to other some other people saying important things in relation to this. You know, just to show that this is not just one or two people being funny, but that this actually does matter! The power politics of words is real and has [...]

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