Posts tagged feminism
Posts tagged feminism
Umoja (dir. Elizabeth Tadic) tells the story of a group of Samburu women who get tired of men’s shit and start their own women-only community (as in if a man shows up and talks that macho bullshit they kindly suggest that he get the fuck out, sometimes with sticks). Saw this tonight at the Artivist Film Festival, and it was awesome.
(Pssst, notice how they didn’t need Western feminists to tell them how to liberate themselves.)
I was going to post a personal account, but realized I am not ready to do that. So here’s some bullet points:
1. Many modern feminists are terrified of being classed as man-hating, prudish dykes, so there is a tendency to fawn over “reformed” men and “male feminists”. It is not surprising that many of the men who insert themselves into these spaces tend to be excellent manipulators and thus very adept at finding ways to silence and talk over women, all the while maintaining an appearance of being concerned for women in general, and women who defend and agree with them in particular.
2. “Sex-positive” spaces are particularly vulnerable, because a lot of sex-positive rhetoric glosses over misogyny and provides a platform for men to discuss how they are oppressed for their kinks. These men foster an environment where it is permissible to silence legitimate critique of internalized misogyny, or of attempts to discuss the often hazy interaction of consent and abuse. It is often interpreted as a space where no negativity or questioning, not even protective, valid questioning, is allowed, and thus it is often dominated by mansplainers.
3. There is no such thing as a person without misogynistic thoughts. The patriarchy could not function otherwise. Beware any many who claims to be free of misogyny, especially if he is talking over women to do it. Such men will also be completely oblivious to more subtle, intersectional oppressions. If they’re not, they will often “take sides” and play one group of women off another.
4. The vast majority of “reformed” abusive men do not stop abusive behavior. They simply find new ways to channel it. Often, those new channels are far more subtle, and padded with anecdotes about what a bad person they used to be, so that their current behavior looks saintly in comparison. Red flags include a) the fact that the women they abused are now mere anecdotes relayed without any apparent concern about how the victims might feel about it, b) a tendency to target young women, often college-aged, for relationships, sex and flirtation, because they do not have sufficient life experience or self-confidence to read them properly, c) targeting other vulnerable populations of women (undocumented immigrants, the disabled, the mentally ill) for the same, because they would be afraid to seek help or would not be believed if they did, d) self-flagellation that is accompanied by a contradictory failure to understand why others are still angry or fearful of them. They also often seek the company of prominent women and behave well around them, so that these same women can be relied on to defend them if necessary.
5. A man who is genuinely interested in minimizing sexist, abusive behavior will accept and understand that he will fuck up sometimes. He will understand that he is not permitted in some spaces, and, when called out, he will learn from the experience and not repeat the error. When challenged about his sexism, he will not respond with anger or aggression, and he will not recount past aggressive behavior solely to illustrate what he is capable of. He will remove himself from situations where his emotions are threatening to make him fuck up. He will not declare himself a “feminist” or bestow himself any other title that puts women who disagree with him in the position of looking anti-woman. An abusive male will likely do most, if not all, all of those things. If he “behaves”, he will be sure to mentally file those incidents away to use later as proof of his victimhood.
This is hardly a complete list, but the bottom line is this: if a known abuser ever makes you feel creeped out, frightened, uneasy, or silenced, trust your gut, even if he has a hundred people behind him ready to tell you how awesome he is.
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The relation between pleasure and the possession of slave property, in both the literal and figurative senses, can be explained in part by the fungibility of the slave—that is, the joy made possible by virtue of the replaceability and interchangeability endemic to the commodity—and by the extensive capacities of property—that is, the augmentation of the master subject through his embodiment in external objects and persons. Put differently, the fungibility of the commodity makes the captive body an abstract and empty vessel vulnerable to the projection of others’ feelings, ideas, desires, and values; and, as property, the dispossessed body of the enslaved is the surrogate for the master’s body since it guarantees his disembodied universality and acts as the sign of his power and dominion.
Saidiya Hartman (1997) ‘Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America’ p. 21 (emphasis added).
On why the suffering of Black women always seems to belong to everyone except Black women. Even, or especially, within ‘progressive’ social movements, particularly those concerned with defending the social and/or bodily integrity of whites/non-Blacks.
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ok it’s been time for me to read this book.
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Myth: Rape is an impulsive, uncontrollable act of sexual gratification. Most rape are spontaneous acts of passion where the assailant cannot control him/herself.
FACT Rape is a premeditated act of violence, not a spontaneous act of passion. 71% of rapes are planned in…This is all true, but what gets me most about the rape as a compulsive act of masculine passion argument is that it’s basically saying men are uncivilized animals. Aside from anything else, I refuse to accept the idea that men are thoughtless brutes.
(And before one of you guys MISSES THE POINT and starts screeching “WHAT ABOUT THE MENZ! MENZ GET RAPED TOO!”, this is specifically about the very prevalent concept in rape culture that women who dress provocatively should know better because men are dogs. Thank you for not detailing yet another discussion about sexual violence against women.
(Source: kr-law, via peecharrific)
Privilege check: I am a white, male songwriter so I know those first two adjectives will invalidate anything I have to say in the eyes of the more reactionary feminists.
To begin: Yoko Ono coined this phrase, not John Lennon. Either way, I’m not going to function as an…
““Woman is the nigger of the world” wasn’t just “diluting honesty”, it’s straight up ignorance. It doesn’t matter that it was 39 years ago. It is obviously still being used and appropriated by white folks today, hence making it still an issue. Hence bringing to light the fact that Lennon did have a negative impact on the social justice movement by letting his privilege as a white dude create cracks in what otherwise might have been solidarity. I guess you have a lot in common with him there.
The only people who lack “intellectual ambition” (fucking christ, pretentious much?) are those who are not willing to analyze their own behavior and the behavior of supposed “allies” in the context of the social justice. Andrew Breitbart is an easy mark because everyone knows he’s an oppressive asshole. It takes much more to confront someone within what’s supposed to be your own ranks who is also expressing oppressive attitudes. It takes more to pinpoint the underlying attitudes that everyone has, even self-identified allies, than it does to criticize a known and vocal bigot. Puh-lease, dude.”
Thank you for the straw man inference that I am not willing to analyze my behavior or that of others. The whole problem with the left is all this infighting, squabbling over details which aren’t particularly relevant to the bigger picture. And that’s why we’ve been paralyzed since the 60’s while the right has moved tenaciously forward with their agenda in solidarity.
The salient point of John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s statement is that women are universally oppressed. I acknowledged the validity of the argument that John Lennon’s statement does not take into account the possibility for women to racially oppress other women, but I’m still condescending women of color? Okey dokey… Yes, I know that Esperanza Spalding and Erykah Badu exist and are great songwriters but that doesn’t mean I expect everyone on tumblr, regardless of race, to understand the constricting nature of songwriting. Clearly you don’t understand art if you’re willing to interpret it in an absolute moral sense. It’s far too vague for this level of concrete analysis. THIS is why there is no solidarity in the left. Because I’m automatically racist or Hitler or whatever if I don’t bow down to the more authoritarian forms of dogma, be they feminist/anarchist/libertarian/whatever.
Not everyone knows Breitbart is an idiot. The dialogue needs to be centered on directly challenging the deplorable things he says to his almost 2 million unique online viewers. That’s pertinent today; the ideological war going on right now. There’s no solidarity in our infighting over details like this. There is no solidarity in accusing someone of condescending women of color just because their viewpoint is slightly different but mostly similar to yours. And again, I acknowledge my own hypocrisy in this fight.
This is what fascism is and what we are supposed to be fighting against: It’s the fact that Alex Jones and Glenn Beck hate each other more for the slight differences in their ideology than they hate people who diametrically oppose them. And I’m not accusing you of hating me. Just pointing out that this isn’t particularly constructive (again ceding my hypocrisy) or relevant to what’s going on today. I hope you have a nice day and aren’t so quick to get indignant the next time someone disagrees with your point of view a little.
Also,
“Look, I know you put your passive aggressive “If feminists criticize me for this they’re just reactionary” bit in at the top, but I’m not gonna let that bug me. “
That’s not what I said. I’m so glad that you’ve criticized my piece. It’s always better to have a dialogue than to wax philosophical with no frame of reference. I wasn’t saying that feminists would be reactionary for criticizing me, I was saying that more radical feminists would immediately dismiss my perspective because of the source… which you kind of did.
K but u rong doe.
Quick question: If “woman is the nigger of the world,” what does that make Black women? Double niggers? Niggers squared? Nigger 2 factorial?
Oh, I get it! Black women aren’t really women!
I’m crying, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a great example of white/mansplaining.
Goodness, thank you for telling me I should stop being offended and start worrying about something else.
Appreciate it.
K but he rong doe. Would you like to send him a package from the Pop In The Mouth Aversion Therapy Committee? It takes 3 to 5 business days, but it’s very reliable.
(Source: jackwoodward)
clipped the rest to answer this
SERIOUS QUESTION: What sort of response would have been acceptable or, better yet, a step towards some sort of positive outcome like healing and inclusion? I’ve been wracking my brains and right now I can’t really come up with much. I think what we’d want is for them to a) take responsibility, b) apologize sincerely, but then what?
I am not speaking for what BLACK WOMEN would need to hear, but only giving what *I* would have liked to see in an apology:
- What happened is 100% wrong
- We, the organizers, are taking steps to ensure that signs of this nature never slip through again by doing (fill in the blanks, but be very specific about the steps being taken)
- We understand that, although we are WoC, many WoC do not feel that SlutWalk is a safe environment and do not want to minimize the further damage done by this situation
- We also understand that the majority of SlutWalkNYC participants are white or white appearing and we therefore demand that if they wish to be a part of our coalition they DO THE WORK necessary to meet standards of expression, behavior and solidarity with WoC, ESPECIALLY BLACK WOMEN, queer, disabled, and other marginalized folks.
- Jessica Valente et al does not speak for us either
- We especially apologize and take full collective responsibility for the public reactions and backlash against critiques made by Suzy. She has been demoted to member, rather than any leadership position, in our collective pending her completion of/adherence to (fill in the blanks, but be very specific about requests made to Suzy for developing a genuinely non-oppressive stance) and will be asked to leave our coalition if these requests are not met. She is not our voice, and will not be speaking at further events, but has volunteered to personally participate as SECURITY in an attempt to be certain that similar mistakes are not made. (Ha ha ha, I know I’m really dreaming here, but you asked…)
- Anti-Black racism will not be tolerated in our coalition and anyone expressing it will face the collective wrath. We pledge to no longer stand silently and awkwardly by while oppressive things are done in our name, but to confront it head on. All white members will be signing a pledge that says this.
- We deeply apologize and are learning from these errors and critiques.
- We are open and willing to engage with anyone, organization or individual, who would like to work with us to eradicate racism and all other isms from our framework. We will meet you where, when, and how works for you (none of that “email us” bullshit).
- We understand that no one is required to trust us, educate us, or work with us. We are committed to the original objectives of SlutWalk and will move it forward with all of these critiques deeply imbedded in our further organizing, but we do not expect that anyone join us or give us a pass because we know we need to prove ourselves to you.
All this, plus:
We recognize that our official statement failed to accept responsibility for creating an environment where all women would feel safe and placed the burden of solidarity on women who have already been insulted, marginalized, and oppressed by Slutwalk and mainstream feminism.
Furthermore, it was inappropriate for us to frame the pain, humiliation, and oppression of Black women as a learning experience for women who do not share their experience of combined racism and sexism.
We understand that solidarity is a two-way street, and we are deeply sorry for any actions or commentary made by or on behalf of Slutwalk that stated or insinuated anything to the contrary.
To prove our dedication to eradicating sexual violence toward all women, we would like to volunteer our time and resources to other organizations seeking to end sexual violence, particularly those led by women often marginalized by mainstream feminist movements (women of color, LGBT women, trans* women, poor and working class women, etc.).
(Source: slutwalknyc, via poemsofthedead-deactivated20120)
Most urgently, women’s identity must be premised upon our “beauty” so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
(Source: ceylonian, via jadedfucker-deactivated20120302)
Men’s bodies and sexuality are taken for granted, exempted from scrutiny, whereas women’s are extensively defined and overexposed. Sexual and social meanings are imposed on women’s bodies, not men’s… men have left themselves out of the picture because a body defined is a body controlled.
(via bad-dominicana)
“Female orgasm is a different story. Shhh, don’t talk about that – it makes people uncomfortable. Think about it—how many slang terms for female orgasm can you think of? Can you make a list? Are there mainstream movies that depict or discuss girls or women masturbating? Although I can think of a few exceptions (Pleasantville, The OH in Ohio), if female masturbation occurs in mainstream films, it is often told from a male pornographic fantasy perspective (e.g., American Pie). Such media depictions suggest that men have uncontrollable sexual drives, (which, apparently, women do not) that must be satisfied immediately by any means necessary. Unlike men’s, women’s sexual desires are peripheral to our conversations about sex and sexuality.”—
The Clitoris: Most. Awkward. Discussion. Ever! | SociologyFocus (via linzyxxxxx)
Indeed. As a writer for the stage (and perhaps the screen), if I wanted to be controversial, I would not have put the current Hot Young Thing butt naked in a hardcore gangbang sex scene. I’d simply have her masturbate to orgasm. I wouldn’t even have to show her face (for example, Boys Don’t Cry). Just a woman pleasing herself to an orgasm that, if not real, is faked way better than the ones in porn movies.
(Source: sociolab, via bad-dominicana)
If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.
Cis white lesbians do not own dyke or queer women’s culture. This is about rejecting transphobic pseudo-radical feminist discourse. Let’s imagine what a truly radical inclusive queer dyke culture could look like. Submissions can take any form. Rants, raves, poems, personal anecdotes, essays, song lyrics, drawings, collages etc. are all welcome.
Some topic ideas:
- What is queer? What is dyke? Are you one, both or neither? Transmisogyny, how have you experienced or witnessed it, how can we fight it and stand in solidarity against it?
- Racism in queer/dyke spaces, tokenization of women of color
- Bi/queerphobia in dyke communities, busted ideas about lesbian “purity” and “gold star” status, how can we change or resist them
- Words like womyn, grrrl and persyn; are they necessary any more?
- Butch/femme, how CAFAB masculinity is privileged, queer femme invisibility, passing
- Desires. How do you fuck? How do your sexuality and gender intersect?
- Violence and rape in queer/dyke communities, survivor experiences
- Queer/trans-positive anarcha-feminism; state or police violence
- How economic inequality, reproductive injustice, health care and employment discrimination, street harassment etc. affects queers, dykes, trans and cis women all together
- Women’s space in general: useful or irrelevant? can they exist without erasing non-binary folx, intersex folx, women of color or non-lesbians? Punk culture and/or riot grrrl?
- Best practices for allies – listening, honoring anger, taking responsibility
- Open letters: what do you need from queers, dykes and/or women?
Why is this zine called Stitches?: To stitch is to mend. Think about stitching up a wound. It requires the painful puncture of a needle, reunion and gradual healing of torn flesh. This is an analogy for a process that queer/dyke communities need to go through. We need tough conversations. We need to abandon inaccurate ideas.
Who can submit: Open to all! I strive to center POC, trans women, non-binary people, intersex people, and people with disabilities.
Why am I doing this: I’m a genderqueer butch dyke grrrl who has been told that I can’t be dyke because I’m fat, non-binary, queer-not-lesbian, engaged to a CAMAB person and kinky. I’m also sick of queers dumping on trans women. I don’t think that it is always their job to fight transmisogyny. Cis women and CAFAB people need to call each other’s bullshit and listen to trans women if we are ever going to get anywhere.
Format: 8 1/2 x 7” (recycled legal paper folded in half), b&w pages with color cover, staple bound. I’m aiming for 12-16 pages for the first issue.
Deadline: November 6, 2011.
Contact or send submissions to: punktreerecord@gmail.com
[posted by Arsenic Alyss on We Make Zines]
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I want to live in a world where there isn’t a hierarchy of relationships, where romantic love isn’t assumed to be more important than other kinds, where folks can center any relationships they want whether it be their relationship to their spiritual practice, kids, lovers, friends, etc. and not have some notion that it’s more or less important because of who or what’s in focus. I want to feel like I can develop intimacy with people whether we are sleeping together or not that I will be cared for whether I am romantically involved with someone or not. I want a community that takes interdependency seriously that doesn’t assume that it’s only a familial or romantic relationship responsibility to be there for each other.
I didn’t just dream this way of relating to each other up. Other cultures and communities throughout time have had more options in terms of how they construct connection. And we are doing it now. Folks are creating interdependent relationships and community that disrupt popular perceptions of appropriate partnering. I just wonder what it will take to get more of us to honestly evaluate the realities of our love and determine whether we are actually getting what we want. Love is abundant, not scarce. Why would we ever want to limit or narrow its flow?
(Source: crunkfeministcollective.wordpress.com, via tgstonebutch)
How exciting! Fantasy is so fun! You can do anything you want to your universe, because it’s fantasy - which is really great, because you’ve always wanted cats to talk and everyone else to share your distaste of squash. Plus you could have magic! Or not, you know, low-fantasy works too. Maybe it will be another Epic/High fantasy, and surely you’ve got a trilogy in the works, or perhaps you’re writing steam punk…anything your heart desires! This is so fun!
What’s that you say? You say you have a hero in mind? Wonderful! Your hero is a strapping young farmboy? Yes? Well, okay. It’s been done before, but I trust you. He’s an orphan, you say? And the Chosen one? Oh, well alright. (Hey you steampunk novelist. Don’t walk away. I noticed you were writing about a young boy who wants to be an airship mechanic. It’s okay, just keep following along.) There’s a great big evil he must defeat in order to save his town, village, country, or the world? Well yes, there does need to be some antagonism in this story, so I’ll let that go, and of course your big evil needs monster or henchmen or something, and yes, this kid really does need a wiser, more experienced person to hel-he’s a man too?
Well you know it wasn’t uncommon for older men and younger male warriors in training to carry on relationships in certain societ- hmm? Oh they’re not gay? Are you sure?
I suppose. If you really feel that way. I just thought it would be interesting and realistic is all, but let’s get back to your story. So he needs a mentor, because he’s only a farmboy, and this older man actually knows what’s going on, but he can’t explain because…well you can think of why later.
What’s that? Oh! There’s a girl character? Lovely! What’s she like? I’m sure the hero here needs a friend, perhaps, or maybe a sister, or another advisor, and maybe just maybe- oh.
She’s the love interest?
Are you sure?
She’s particularly beautiful. Sweet, giving, and has been eying the hero now that he’s gone through some warrior training, and of course she’s graceful. (Is she an elf?) Oh, you gave her a sword. Well that’s a relief, those monsters/henchmen we tossed out into your world are crawling all over the place and so it’s a good thing to keep- she can’t wield it, can she?
No, no, you gave her a broadsword. Her fingers are soft and smooth like silk, you just described this two pages ago. A swords woman has callouses. And even if you lie about that, or gloss over it, you just gave a petite blonde a broadsword. (Do you know what a broadsword is? Have you ever tried lifting one, and then swinging it around for a half hour? Nevermind, don’t do that. You’ll hurt yourself trying.) She just lost the fight. So the hero could save her.
Let’s do this over again.
Particularly beautiful, blahblahblah, no broadsword. Okay. Good. She can’t fight? Well no, she couldn’t fight, she was trying to wield a broadsword on foot. That’s just not practical. What, you mean she really cannot fight? Well that seems stupid, she needs to do something-embroidery?
She’s going to embroider things? And do what, make the perfect cross stitch?
It’s because she’s a woman?
She’s a woman so she can’t fight, but she likes to embroider-
STOP. STOP STOP STOP STOP!
We’ve gone too far! This is absurd. She lives in a world where danger is at every turn, and the worst she can do is bat her eyelashes and faint? Nevermind her craftiness, it’s not like she gets to use it to stitch wounds on the battlefield.
What do you mean it’s realistic?
This isn’t realistic! How is she alive when you’ve painted a big red target on her back that says “Beautiful noble thing the hero cares about - steal me, I’m helpless to stopping you!”? Well but she’s a woman, and women were supposed to be cooking and cleaning and having children in this time. What time? Whatever do you mean, dear novelist? It’s unrealistic to have her be powerful, she’s a girl!
But this is a fantasy novel! There’s no such thing as having to stick to one time period, and remember, we were so excited to do whatever we wanted to in the world because of this being a fantasy novel and all! But this is like Europe! It was a misogynistic society! There was patriarchy! I am trying to be accurate in my portrayals!
THIS IS “EUROPE” WITH MAGIC AND THE UNDEAD. OR STEAMSHIPS. AND FIRE BREATHING CREATURES. THERE ARE DARK FORCES INVOLVED. THIS ISN’T GOING TO BE ACCURATE.
Fine, you know what? You want accuracy. That’s cool. It’s okay to base your world off of stuff in the real world. So that’s why she can’t fight! Why are you arguing with me on this?
Well because maybe it’s why she can’t fight! But maybe it’s not. Let’s just FORGET Europe. Look at Japan - women in Samurai families could train with weapons in order to defend their homes! that was a patriarchal society, and they still trained those women to fight. Or how about Mongolia? Not only were women in charge of the supplies, home tents, and animals, but they could choose to marry and were supposed to initiate sex. And they could fight or be a battle strategist too! And hey, Genghis Khan actually made selling, kidnapping, and raping women illegal under his rule! Maybe we can avoid implying that all brown people have mandatory rape festivals!
Get this, she doesn’t even have to fight to be powerful! Crazy, huh? A woman wrote the first modern novel, remember? Maybe she’s a novelist, and wrote the equivalent of the Tales of Genji. Maybe she’s a diplomat, some of the Mongolian women acted like that. Or maybe she’s an adviser - a political adviser. Maybe she’s the Queen! She’s not the Queen? Well, maybe she’s running the show behind the scenes. Or she’s a spy.
Want to hear something even crazier? Not all societies function/ed under the western notion of what equality should be! Sometimes being the woman of the house means a whole hell of a lot because you run the place where people eat, sleep, and live. And the men have a totally different separate function in society that is not greater or lesser in standing. You remember seeing all those reblogs on why its not okay for white girls to run around in Native American war bonnets, right? They’re worn by men who have earned that right in battle, and women generally don’t wear them. They had their own regalia. A lot of non-western/white cultures don’t have the same norms, traditions, domains split between men and women but that doesn’t make it misogynistic or even unequal. Try looking up stuff like dual-sex/dual-gendered systems, female husbands, and matriarchies and patriarchies existing in the same culture or society. Not all cultures function the same way white Europeans do! Remember that when world building.
So your girl could totally be in charge of the household and not be a simpering helpless blonde. That household may put her equal to her husband or the hero who goes out and fights without a domain.
Remember that hero we had at the beginning? He’s now without supplies, transportation, food, a place to live, or any money or support. All he has are weapons. Because the women of your world are in control of the households. Men are warriors. Whoops. He’s not going to get very far without supplies. Now he has to learn to deal in this society by protecting the female domains who keep him supplied and clothed. Maybe he has to take up quests in order to afford the way to defeating the bad guy.
What’s that?
You want to write women who do stuff besides have babies? Awesome.
You still want her to be good at embroidery?
Fine by me. Just fine by me.
What do you do with that farm boy now? Don’t ask me, I don’t have the damnedest idea.
I have so many feelings about this is and ALL OF THEM AGREEMENT AND LOVE. oh my god, CO-SIGNING THIS SO HARD.
(via karnythia)
I don’t really think that a welcome is enough, to be frank.
Feminism has a long long long history of cissexism and transphobia. Cissupremacy was at one point central to feminism. Second-wave feminists like Mary Daly, Andrea Dworkin, and yes, even Gloria Stienem (though she’s gotten better I believe) actively worked to exclude trans women from woman-only spaces - which meant life or death when you’re talking about rape crisis and domestic violence survivor shelters. Trans women, who face a MUCH higher rate of gendered violence than cis wome
This legacy has created a cis-centric feminism in which trans women are dehumanized and excluded to this very day and in which cis women like me participate. Trans women still face extremely high rates of violence, and like all marginalized women their safety is still not considered a priority the way, say, abortion is.
We should not expect trans women to just join us because we waved and asked nicely, to trust a group that has contributed to violence against them, because we finally acknowledged that they are women. We’ve got to do more than just welcome women in, than deign to finally do something we should have been doing all along (I don’t think this is totally SHIC’s point of view, btw - she may share these views, it just got me thinking).
Cis feminists need to do more than just welcome. We need to repair feminism: to centralize trans women on a consistent basis, to take their violence and degradation as seriously as we do our own.