I experienced many mixed emotions when reading A. Revathi’s A Life in Trans Activism, but I will start with the good. Revathi’s book is half memoir, and half interview-based coalitional research project regarding the lives…
Tag: queer theory
Book Review: Transgender History by Susan Stryker
I often joke to my parents that this whole “attending University” thing is an elaborate ruse for them to buy me expensive texts and books I would struggle to justify buying and marking up with…
Sexual Freedom and the Case for Police Abolition
Last year’s George Floyd uprisings have not just impacted the United States, but have drawn attention to and inspired calls for police abolition across the world. But why do so many global progressive activists have…
Femininity as Both Tool and Threat: The Use of Non-Normative Femininity as a Scapegoat Across Global Institutions from the 2000s to the Present Day
Studying examples of global, governmental gender dynamics during the mid-00s and the U.S. “War on Terror” period has impressed several basic, universal truths upon me about their intersections. Mainly, I have found that across different…