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A Letter To Wendy Brown
I am reading States Of Injury by Wendy Brown. Wendy paints a world of Identity Politics and Feminism seeped in Nietzschian Resentment. Instead of trying to explain her to you, I write her a video letter and let you listen in.
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A Video Critique of Victim Transfeminism

I critique the victim transfeminism which claims to represent transwomen.
keywords: victimfeminism, transfeminism, Transgender, Lesbian, MTF

Studying Masculinity

Take a look at this google book about gender from a male feminist perspective. It is a google book and contains the first 30 pages of the book. I highly recommend the preface and the introduction. I do not know if Kimmel identifies as male feminist, but I definitely consider it a continuation of the [...]

What I have learned about the ‘male’/'female’ binary

I journeyed through a series of genders recently. Now I am catching my breath. I identify as a gender-variant queer. That does not box me in, but expresses that I am actively playing with the prohibitions and technologies that create the male/female binary. It also says that I am part of the queer movement. The [...]

Sexism and Sexual Essentialism

“One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.” Simone de Beauvoir Butler critiques the discursive construction of ’sex.’ Queer culture has embraced the gender as social construction. Masculine and feminine are discursive positions not ontological categories, but much of feminist theory and lesbian cultural practice is deeply invested in the privileging of [...]