Oh, a "currently reading" thread, how novel. Nobody's ever made one of those.
(Novel, get it? Heh heh! Look, I am cringe.)
Post about what you are currently reading. If you want to. I'm not your boss.
I am currently reading Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt. You can find it here: https://taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem
I've read a couple of the essays within so far. I should point out that her purpose here is to reclaim Second Wave feminism as liberatory and transfeminist. If that sentence is too "inside baseball" for you, just know that there are so-called feminists who reject trans people, to the point that their term for themselves is "trans-exclusionary radical feminists," aka TERFs.
But in much the same way that "toxic masculinity" refers to a type of masculinity rather than describing all masculinity, trans-exclusionary radical feminists are not the only kind of radical feminists there can be. At least, that seems to be Bhatt's perspective. I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet but I understand that's where it's going.
I am not sure if radfem is something that needs to be reclaimed; the why is probably less important than the what, as in "what is to be done?" And her intention is a program to dismantle patriarchy, a goal I can hardly disagree with.
I might post more thoughts about this later.
Obviously, everybody is welcome to talk about whatever they are reading. Please do not make this a debate thread. I would be happy to discuss anything contentious in more depth in the politics forum!
(Novel, get it? Heh heh! Look, I am cringe.)
Post about what you are currently reading. If you want to. I'm not your boss.
I am currently reading Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt. You can find it here: https://taliabhatt.itch.io/transradfem
I've read a couple of the essays within so far. I should point out that her purpose here is to reclaim Second Wave feminism as liberatory and transfeminist. If that sentence is too "inside baseball" for you, just know that there are so-called feminists who reject trans people, to the point that their term for themselves is "trans-exclusionary radical feminists," aka TERFs.
But in much the same way that "toxic masculinity" refers to a type of masculinity rather than describing all masculinity, trans-exclusionary radical feminists are not the only kind of radical feminists there can be. At least, that seems to be Bhatt's perspective. I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet but I understand that's where it's going.
I am not sure if radfem is something that needs to be reclaimed; the why is probably less important than the what, as in "what is to be done?" And her intention is a program to dismantle patriarchy, a goal I can hardly disagree with.
I might post more thoughts about this later.
Obviously, everybody is welcome to talk about whatever they are reading. Please do not make this a debate thread. I would be happy to discuss anything contentious in more depth in the politics forum!
the horrors persist, but so do we
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(aka large mozz)
