The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement

[Shana A]

The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement
By transmeditations

http://transmeditations.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/blog-27-bob-jensen-lierre-keith-et-al-the-rabid-transphobic-hate-mongering-of-the-anti-pornography-movement/

cross posted at http://www.transadvocate.com/the-rabid-transphobic-hate-mongering-of-the-anti-pornography-movement.htm

This weekend, there was a conference at the University of New Hampshire entitled "Pornography as Sexual Violence."

I was asked by the key organizer to co-present a panel with David Jacobsen at the conference.  I titled the session Pornography and LGBT Identities: Documenting Harm, Plotting Resistance.  My Power-point presentation was entitled: "From 'She-Male Sluts' to Trans-Sister Survivors: Interrogating the Degradation and Sexualization of Transgender Women in the Porn Culture" and I gave it the following abstract:

For a number of years now, a sub-genre of pornography that depicts transgender women, offensively labeled "she-male", has been gaining in popularity.  Like other forms of pornography, "she-male" porn is filled with degrading, misogynistic and racist images that function to further the oppression of transgender women in everyday life.