Entries Tagged as ‘Gender, Fashion and Society Essays’

September 30, 2009

Nietzsche, Identity Politics & Post-Feminism

Nietzsche wrote A Genealogy Of Morality (GOM) in 1880, a very interesting time. The stranglehold that Calvinist identity politics had on German public morality was beginning to slip. Bismarck had unified Germany under Prussian rule only ten years earlier. The “imaginary community” of the German Nation was being created. Nationalist and [...]

September 16, 2009

You Degender Me I Degender You

The Right Wing Transwomen have been disputing the authenticity of my womanness. See this vitriolic post by Suzan
There is a misogynistic dick trying to make a name for hmself by running around claiming to be a lesbian
Jasper has a collection of photos that show him to be a sort of creapy pervert exercising the male [...]

September 15, 2009

I am an Authentic Woman

This video helped me clarify my views.
I realized:

the right-wing transfeminism of Women Born Transsexual (WBT) is affirming the authenticity of WBT womanness, while denying the authenticity of Transgender Transsexual womannes and Tranny (Transvestite) womanness. The symbolic marker for authenticity is Sex-Reassignment Surgery.
Binary-Centric Transsexual Women Activists working within under the sign [...]

September 13, 2009

Right Wing Transphobic Transsexuals Hate On Jasper

Kate on
Ariablue is right, the transgender are becoming terrified we have finally stood up to the nonsense they are. We’ve organized and our numbers increase by the day,…
This quote is from a right wing gender fundamentalist on the blog sophiaofthescythes.wordpress.com. Kate represents a Transgender hating group of transsexual fundamentalists who reject [...]

September 8, 2009

Internalized Transphobia & “Passing”

I talk about the culture of stealth and passing that I have encountered among transwomen.
The article about transwomen heirarchies of passing can be found here. I read a longer version in a new book (Trans/Form Feminsim?).
also see Monica’s critique of passing in Feministe » Stealth Was A Mistake. I think [...]