Sublime

My understanding of abolition is to transform harm and our relationship to how we are trained to think about harm.

She has never practiced martial arts or received any special training, she never learned to use a hammer, a knife, or a pistol, and yet, under the surface, her experiences of violence have served as lessons in feminist self-defense.36 Without her even realizing it, they have given her the resources needed to reason, judge, act, and strike—that is,

The cases of two scholars, Rebecca Tuvel and Bruce Gilley, immediately come to mind. Tuvel wrote a paper for the feminist philosophy giant Hypatia, exploring parallels between transracial and transgender identities and advocating transracial identity statuses. However, for Theory, race and gender are profoundly different. To claim transgender statu

But at its heart it was, of course, about women’s bodies, and what we do with those bodies. More specifically, it was about what claim others have to those bodies when we dare to live, eat and breathe in a public space. The man at the helm of the group, whom I won’t name for fear of feeding his ego, shrugged the whole thing off in an interview with

Ser anoréxica ou bulímica é mesmo ser um prisioneiro político.

Misogyny also subjects women to what I have come to think of as a kind of tyranny of vulnerability—by pointing to any and every (supposedly) more vulnerable (supposed) person or creature in her vicinity to whom she might (again, supposedly) do better, and requiring her to care for them, or else risk being judged callous, even monstrous.