Theory is Yours: A Brief Archaeology of Trans Feminist Awesome

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Theory is Yours: A Brief Archaeology of Trans Feminist Awesome
Questioning Transphobia
Written by Quinnae Moongazer
October 16th, 2010 at 12:00 am


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In looking out at the vast, expansive canon of gender studies literature, and in light of even the most superficial analysis of its myriad failings it is easy to feel dispirited by what it has to offer trans people. It is all too easy to understand the instinct to abandon both queer and gender studies as a privileged exercise in neo-pathology, the postmodern turn of the same ideologies that guided the hegemonic psychiatrists of decades past. One could find yet more examples, of course.