Today was TERF week in class. It was definitely a subject that seemed to strike a nerve with most of us in class. The idea of a TERF is so absurd, that when I explained the concept to my mom today after class she burst out laughing and called my dad to laugh about it …
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Stryker, “Transgender History”
Susan Stryker writes about the history of transgender people, and this excerpt focuses on the transgender experience within the feminist community. According to Stryker, a considerable amount of conflict started in the 1970s, when Beth Elliott, a male to female transsexual, was excluded from feminist conferences. Elliot was proclaimed by radical feminists to be “not …
Green, “Troubling the Waters”
Kai Green writes about the trans community, and specifically a relationship between Trans* and black lesbians. A lot of Green’s piece focuses on the language that is used surrounding Trans*. Green states that the use of Trans* is an attempt of a “decolonial demand; a question of how, when, and where one sees and knows; …
Enke, “Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Toward a Less Plausible History”
Finn Enke’s article asserts the importance of engaging with the past in order to understand and progress in the present, and in the future. When discussing the exclusionary nature of “1970s Feminism”, and the ways in which beliefs of this time are connected to present-day acts of hate, Enke notes that, “… if we write …
Troubling the Waters by Kai Green
In this piece Kai Green is taking on the conversation of how black feminist thought critiqued the way white feminism conceives “womanhood”, while black lesbian feminists still are holding on to the conceived notion of womanhood when they reject trans bodies. A large question Green asks is what does it mean to be a woman? Green …
Sandy Stone on Living Among Lesbian Separatists as a Trans Woman in the 70s
Sandy Stone on Living Among Lesbian Separatists as a Trans Woman in the 70s, is part of a growing archive of interviews with transgender icons and pioneers. In this particular piece, Zackary Drucker interviews Allucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, a transgender icon whose courageous tale is centered around the time of 1970s radical lesbian feminism. In …
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Post Class Reflection 3/7
We began talking about the Barnard Conference, a conference that took place in 1982 during the Feminist sex wars. We discussed how many of the debates and conversations that took place at this conference are still relevant today. In fact, there is a conference that is very similar to this one that still takes place …
Against Sadomasochism
Against Sadomasochism is a book featuring many different pieces from different authors from the feminist and women’s movement. As clearly stated by the title of the work, all of the pieces have something that finds issue with, or disagrees with the political leaning of sadomasochism. Some of the criticism surrounding this issue is that it …
Thinking Sex
Every time I learn more about the way sex and sexuality has been created historically, I only become more ashamed and confused of our history, but also equally as fascinated. A socially constructed definition of morality that is held by a small percentage of the population, is somehow able to consume our politics. Not only …
The Color of Kink
In Ariane Cruz’ excerpt of The Color of Kink, she explores the representation of Black women and the performances within American BDSM and pornography. It revealed numerous ways of how the violence of Black women performers can illustrate the complexity and contradictory dynamics of pleasure, power, and pain. Cruz further explores the two differing opinions of Black queer …