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Book
Julia Serano · 2013
A collection of essays and speeches examining sexism-based exclusion within feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements, arguing that these movements inadvertently police gender and sexuality while claiming to challenge sexism. Serano proposes new frameworks for thinking about gender, sexuality, and marginalization to create more inclusive activist spaces.
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What this book knows
Feminist and queer movements reproduce the very exclusions they claim to fight when they treat some identities as more legitimate than others.
belonging
racism and traditional sexism are viewed as legitimate concepts… when I described an act as cissexist, I have had people challenge the very idea that it exists
EMFQ-RC-192I often feel just as marginalized in gender artifactualist circles as I do in gender determinist ones
EMFQ-RC-102shame
marked people are assumed to be 'afflicted' by, and 'ashamed' of, our marked traits… creating the false impression that our conditions are far more rare than they actually are
EMFQ-RC-139because of horrible negative reactions upon coming out as trans, I am often hesitant to correct other people's incorrect assumptions about me
EMFQ-RC-177self-and-identity
the assumption that my gender is artificial or a performance is regularly cited by those who view me as doubly artificial both because I am trans and because I am feminine
EMFQ-RC-045people tolerate poverty, rape culture, colonialism… because they presume that some people are less legitimate than other people, and thus they deserve what they get
EMFQ-RC-204Illuminates
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