Tag Archives: trans feminism

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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Things that make you go “Wow!”

By Maddie | Published July 9, 2009

Every now and then you come across something that makes you go “Oh wow yes, this” and I did today. It’s the mp3 of an event called “Girl Talk: A Cis & Trans Woman Dialogue” at the National Queer Arts Festival (in the US). You can find an article about it here on Body Impolitic [...]

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And Even More

By Maddie | Published July 2, 2009

Just a quick addition today! I’m all ranted out for the moment, lucky people you.
So, a nonpology around the original incident that caused this has appeared. That’s my opinion of it anyway. For a more detailed and angry response than I can currently muster, my personal favorite so far is geopunk’s.
And also, if you want [...]

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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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Cis

By Maddie | Published June 30, 2009

There’s a rather large blogsplosion going on, based on the response to, and subsequent “debate” around, the term cis. In the best tradition of blogging about blogging and sticking one’s oar in to a debate that you are only tenuously connected to by reading about it while linking to other blogs, I’m going to do [...]

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In Belgium Discrimination Needs No Explanation

By Maddie | Published June 17, 2009

One of the things I’m thinking about at the moment is what I might do in the future as a career. An odd thing to think about you might think for someone already in their mid thirties. Not really though, I’ve already started one career as an architect, I found that the reality of the [...]

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Rainbow of Humanity

By Maddie | Published May 27, 2009

Over at The Thang Blog Rebecca has posted a good summary of how recent problems faced by trans women in feminist community blogs played out, particularly in relation to her own experience on Feministing. My personal opinion on the matter is pretty close to hers but that is not what I want to write about. [...]

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