Category: Challenging Gender

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The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender and Freedom

Rutgers University Press. 1998. 218 Pages. “While the Right is united by their racism, sexism, and homophobia in their goal to dominate all of us, we are divided by our own racism, sexism, and homophobia” – Suzanna Pharr “It is … Continue reading →

Reflections on Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg is well known in the U.S. and around the world as a transgender activist who works to help forge a strong bond between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and one who has contributed deep personal reflections … Continue reading →

Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?

I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to add some … Continue reading →

Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value

The Abu Ghraib portraits of sexual humiliation and submission have exposed the unbelievably tangled strands of racism, misogyny, homophobia, national arrogance and hyper-masculinity that characterize the U.S. military. Militarized sexual domination is neither “contrary to American values” nor simply the … Continue reading →

Untying the Knots: Marriage Equality and the Struggle for Civil Rights

While conservatives are coordinated in their assault on queers, people of color, women, low-income people, and immigrants, many of us under attack are divided, in part because we have learned and internalized the prejudice, mistrust, and hatred that the rightwing … Continue reading →

Men in the Movement

Just got back from National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) in DC. It was good, there were around a thousand people…and there were some really righteous discussions. One particularly thought provoking session was an Anti-Sexist Organizing workshop led by 2 … Continue reading →

Going To Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy

Part I: “How can I be sexist? I’m an anarchist!” “What do you mean I’m sexist?” I was shocked. I wasn’t a jock, I didn’t hate women, I wasn’t an evil person. “But how can I be a sexist, I’m … Continue reading →

Intersections: Organizing All the Oppressed To End All Our Oppressions

What I hope to do in this presentation is to underscore a number of points that have already been made, to elaborate a bit on them, and to add a few new ones. The several points I wish to discuss … Continue reading →

the healing journey as a site of resistance

“Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation” (hooks, 1995, 145). I am real. I am a woman who, as a child, was … Continue reading →

Reading Trans-Health/Reading Race War: Trans health organizing and neocolonial capital

Thanks goes out to the organizers of Philadelphia’s 2nd Annual Trans Health Conference, especially Jaci Adams and Rick Feeley. Gratitude to Dean Spade for much of my analysis. And serious props to the girls working the streets, from San Salvador … Continue reading →

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