Explores Assata Shakur's significance as a black female revolutionary, her experiences with violence and oppression, and the gender dynamics in the Black Panther Party and broader liberation movements.
As feminist scholar Emma Heaney theorizes today, “Cisness is feminism’s counterrevolution.” The radical feminists who became TERFs chose a restrictive pessimism about what it is to be female, excluding trans women with the argument that only a “natal” female could understand the pain that lay at the heart of being a woman — anyone else was an infil... See more
I had already noticed, circa 2013, the gradual rise of a “völkisch environmentalism,” in which care for nature is tied to nativism, sexual traditionalism, and the muscular defense of territory