nikberry

"Some people say that trans men are just trying to escape sexism by turning into men. Let me tell you, when you're a transexual, you do not escape sexism, you are pushed right into an enormous swamp of sexism. When you experience both sides and more, you begin to see the sexism, you notice it when other people don't, when you play with gender...
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The poplars dance,

Yet as the gentle monks that pray.

A barking dog, so quiet,

How far away?

A skylark sings,

And yet a song to say

Of cooling winds,

And cool this autumn day.

A summer’s gone,

Since last

He passed

This way.

- - from “Around the Water Tower” by Nikkie

Normally I put stuff in footnotes, but I don’t want anyone not familiar with me to read this post and get the wrong idea. So, let me say this upfront: @redberry is my friend. She is, I think, just about the nicest, warmest, and most accepting person I have ever known – and though we live thousands of miles apart, we were born in the...
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@luciloser used this term in a comment on a post of mine, so I thought I really should do a blog to explain what it means.

TERF is an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, or bastard git¹ for short. The term was coined - or at least popularised - in 2008 by Viv Smythe², a trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist blogger. Originally applied to...
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I know I’ve been banging on about – sorry, not banging on, I mean informing in a gentle and fair way – all the different flavours of feminism, without I hope showing any bias, even against Marxist wankers and eco-feminist shitegibbons, but here’s another way of looking at it; Nikkie’s Four Kinds of Feminism, a non-provocative and balanced view of modern feminism (or rather feminists)....
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This really should be two posts, each called “So what is xxxxx anyway?”, but I sort of promised to do it in one.

First, intersectional feminism:

Intersectional feminism, also known as Intersectionality, is a branch of feminism asserting that all aspects of social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc.) discrimination overlap (or "intersect"). Intersectional feminism separates itself from “white feminism” (as it...
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Right, I promised that my next post (this one) would cover transfeminism, and intersectional feminist theory. But then this shit happened. So that’s delayed, sorry yet again.

Toronto Public Library has been criticised for refusing to cancel an event hosting a feminist with controversial (to the general public) views on transgender rights. The feminist concerned is writer Meghan Murphy, who is an anti-transgender er, person,...
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