Intersectionality: Challenging Though Essential for Liberation

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Warren Blumenfeld with a personal essay on where our social identities come from and how we live with them.

“Trans man and trans woman are new-ish terms, but the trans community has spoken: a space is warranted.”

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These are comments by jdlm11235 and Schala on the post “Spelling Queer with L, G, B, & T (and A, I, P…) Part 2″.

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Girl: A Story of Sexism

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And yes, that includes misandry.

Femmephobia: Two Misconceptions

Trigger warning for brief mentions of rape. Mod Note: If you want to go argue about trans people and cissexism, argue on this thread. I have recently been doing a lot of posts about femmephobia, i.e., the cultural fear, hatred and devaluation of femininity (i.e. weakness, vulnerability and various traits that attempt to appeal to the powerful, [...]