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The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address or dissipate transphobia. By making people forget that someone is trans, it also means they don’t have to confront the anxiety, fear, or anger that arises when someone destabilizes the binary understanding of gender.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Both obsessively focus on a woman’s looks and how covered or uncovered her body is in determining
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
D.L. actually walks down the downward glide of their conveyor, the sort of girl who treats escalators like stairs, behavior which has always frightened and confused Sternberg. Her ass is disproportionately wide, flat, ungentle.
David Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
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Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
engineer, who was a sexist twat stuck in the dark ages, she
Bernardine Evaristo • Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard, administered by men.
Lindy West • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Toni Morrison on the Body as an Instrument of Joy, Sanity, and Self-Love
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her value, as though her body belongs to a male gaze before it belongs to her.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don’t take pills or smoke to get there) is a