In Memory of Terri Williams Moore (1941–1976)
A trans historian considers the backward progress of the way media represents our dead. By Kat If you are thinking of transitioning but have yet to start the process…
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Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born womyn” policy was…
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Fact Checking Janice Raymond: The NCHCT Report
It has long been asserted that the iconic TERF opinion leader, Janice Raymond, played a part in bringing an end to the public and private coverage of transgender…
Smithsonian Adds Trans Items To Expanded LGBT History Collection
[su_mrtop] Yesterday The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History added hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects to its collection to document the history of trans, bisexual, gay…
How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans
In the middle of a cool August night in 1991, Nancy Burkholder was thrown out of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) because she’s a trans woman. Burkholder…
A TERF’s fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women’s music festivals
What follows is a continuation of my interview with Radical Feminist lesbian icon, Robin Tyler. In the previous piece, Tyler talked about being beaten by TERFs for trying to…
That time TERFs beat RadFems for protecting a trans woman from their assault
Robin Tyler is an iconic Radical Feminist lesbian who talked with me about the ways she confronted TERF violence and oppression against trans women. We discussed Tyler’s involvement…
TERF hate and Sandy Stone
Sandy Stone was a problem that Janice Raymond, author of The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, decided to take care of. Raymond felt that Stone —…
