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The Revictimization of a Transgender, Disabled, Immigrant: Oppressions Intersect

April 21, 2016February 7, 2019

Content Note: Rape, Abuse, Violence Intersectionality is often used in very positive ways – to affirm multiple identities, to demand voice for the multiply marginalized, and so forth. This is valid and vital, but I read the source material (Crenshaw’s work) as saying something less pleasant. To me, the core message of intersectionality is that … Continue ReadingThe Revictimization of a Transgender, Disabled, Immigrant: Oppressions Intersect

Transphobia and Miscegenation – Won’t Somebody Think of the (Cis-gendered) Children

September 29, 2014February 7, 2019

My first ever op-ed was published in the Minneapolis/ St. Paul Star Tribune. It was in 2006 and on the use of medieval rhetoric to talk about modern problems in the Middle East, a situation that continues today. Over the weekend, the Star Tribune published this full-page ad raising the worst kind of fear-mongering about transgendered … Continue ReadingTransphobia and Miscegenation – Won’t Somebody Think of the (Cis-gendered) Children