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We are all implicated in the violence against trans people when we allow their lives and the harm they face to be diminished by a media circus … we have a duty to dismantle that circus and redirect the public imagination. Trans life is fundamental to our collective liberation. – Lola Olufemi (2020, p. 66) … Read more

I’ve been aware of and interested in feminism on and off for most of my life. I first remember encountering feminist ideas when I was a child. This was partly through my family, and partly through the representations of feminism in the pop culture of the late 80s/ early 90s.   What did my pre-teen … Read more

What do you hear when you hear the word feminism? I think of the eternal conundrum of what comes first, your race or your gender? Can feminism exist in a world so heavily imbued with anti-blackness? Is there feminism when your body is Black?  My younger self used to think of Feminism solely being the realm of … Read more

Recently in the feminist supervision-reading groups I facilitate, we read an interview with Michel Foucault called Friendship as a Way of Life that was first published in 1981 in Gai Pied, a French gay magazine founded by Jean Le Bitoux, alongside Professor Sasha Roseneil’s 2006 chapter Foregrounding Friendship: Feminist Pasts, Feminist Futures published in The … Read more

This post is an edited version of a presentation given at the 2023 Inaugural bell hooks Symposium: Dissident Feminisms, June 16th – 18th 2023 at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. The symposium was sponsored by the bell hooks center and the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Berea College. It was an inspiring … Read more