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TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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  • Cristan Williams
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TERFism as an Obsessive Sadistic Fetish: Part VI of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 16, 2014
  • 12

The obsessive nature of TERFs who police the trans communities’ selfhoods through cruelty can be viewed as an obsessive sadistic fetish. The TERF movement – in breathtaking acts of Lateral […]

Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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Critical of “Gender Critical:” Part V of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 15, 2014
  • 5

Many of the TERFs I’ve had the displeasure of meeting move through life belligerently sexing physical phenomena and behavior (especially rape) while simultaneously (and ironically) proclaiming […]

TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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  • Cristan Williams
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TERFs Selling Women into Rape Culture: Part IV of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 14, 2014
  • 5

Note: If you’ve not done so, please read Part III: Debunking TERF Essentialism, as this piece draws upon the debunked TERF ad naturam essentialism concepts – the “essence” of what makes […]

Debunking TERF Essentialism: Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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  • Cristan Williams
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Debunking TERF Essentialism: Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 13, 2014
  • 10

Part III of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series: Debunking TERF Essentialism In Part II, what gender is and is not was discussed and the […]

Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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  • Cristan Williams
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Contextualizing the Body: Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 12, 2014
  • 7

Part II of the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series: Contextualizing the Body If one is talking about something that has chemistry and mass, one is not talking […]

Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series
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  • Cristan Williams
  • Sexing the Body is Gender

Intro to the ‘Sexing the Body is Gender’ Series

  • Cristan Williams
  • August 11, 2014
  • 5

About a decade ago, the feminist community came up with the term Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) as a way to halt the default colonization of […]

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