#camp trans

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Camp Trans 2005 by joedvice

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Didn't Leslie Feinberg stay quiet about the violent exclusion of trans women from Michfest?

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Leslie Feinberg: Transgender Warrior

Day 21 of the Pride 30 Project for Pride Month, 2018.

Feinberg and hir partner, lesbian poet Minnie Bruce Pratt, also participated in Camp Trans, an annual demonstration held to protest the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s exclusionary “womyn-born-womyn” policy.

Trans Filmmakers Tell History of 'Camp Trans'

<p>It's important to remember the moments and people who defined the transgender movement over the years, show these filmmakers.</p>

Transgender Warrriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, Part 4, Chapter 14: "Sisterhood, Make It Real"

TRANSGENDER HISTORY. (mentioned throughout)

How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans

[su_cwtop] In the middle of a cool August night in 1991, Nancy Burkholder was thrown out of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) becau

Did one of the biggest leaders in the trans response to MichFests transphobia stay quiet? Are we utterly incapable of even taking a gander at a wikipedia article about the things the person we wanna make up bullshit about made like... their entire life mission?

✨NO✨

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riki wilchins and leslie feinberg at camp trans.

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Long article but worth the read.

The nihilism of nonbinary

There is nothing liberating or progressive about erasing every trace of one’s sex.

Some things make less sense the more you study them: the SNP’s finances, Joe Biden’s sentences… and being nonbinary.

Nonbinary is an umbrella term used to describe those people who believe they are outside the gender binary. They believe that they are neither male nor female.

When you ask nonbinaries what they mean by this, the response usually boils down to men saying they feel kinda feminine sometimes, and women saying they kinda don’t. It’s not exactly The Communist Manifesto. When you point out that some men and women have felt this way since time immemorial, without feeling the need to turn it into a political cause, nonbinary males become aggressive and nonbinary females become sulky. All of which suggests that this nonbinary LARP may require some more thought.

If, like me, you prefer to identify as non-lunatic, you might be tempted to dismiss the nonbinary phenomenon as a passing fad, like the Tamagotchi ‘egg’ toys popular among children a couple of decades ago. But there’s a difference between the idea of nonbinary and fads like Tamagotchis, especially among the young. Schools banned Tamagotchis in the 1990s because they were a distraction. This time, our public institutions, from multinational corporations to medical bodies, are actively promoting the idea that you can be neither male nor female.

Advocates themselves seem unclear as to what ‘nonbinary’ means. Some seem unsure where to draw the line between being nonbinary and being trans. The huge American LGBTQ+ charity, the Trevor Project, insists that ‘It’s important to note that not all nonbinary folks identify as trans’. But the UK’s LGBT Foundation argues that nonbinary fits under the so-called trans umbrella. This isn’t much help, however, since the trans umbrella has by now grown so huge it could be used to protect the polar ice caps.

Throughout much of the 20th century, the prefix ‘trans’ tended to be used in relation to transvestites or transsexuals. It implied a transition from one gender or sex to the other. But this started to change in the 1990s. Disappointed by the physical results of transitioning – think big-jawed, deep-voiced ‘transwomen’ and miniature, small-boned ‘transmen’ – the trans lobby started to look for a new vocabulary that might capture what it is to be neither male nor female.

Activist Riki Wilchins played a key role in the development of nonbinary. He originally came to prominence in 1991, when he co-founded Camp Trans, an annual protest against the exclusion of transwomen from the women-only Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. In the mid-1990s, he sowed the seeds for the idea of being nonbinary by coining a new term to describe himself – namely, ‘genderqueer’.

It was a fortuitous moment for Wilchins. From the late 1990s onwards, with queer theory flourishing in universities in the UK and the US, a slew of new identities and neologisms were being turned out, from agender and bigender to demigender and genderfluid. Nonbinary started to be used by activists and academics to encompass these new identities in the 2000s. Indeed, in 2002, Wilchins co-authored the tellingly titled Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary.

It wasn’t really until the latter half of the 2010s that nonbinary moved from the spheres of academia and activism and into mainstream culture – largely because an army of idiot celebrities embraced it.

Singer Sam Smith was one such bandwagon-jumper. In 2019, he declared himself to be ‘nonbinary’ and embraced ‘they / them’ pronouns. Smith was once an attractive young gay man. In his new nonbinary guise, he has come to resemble someone forced to twerk in fishnets as a prank.

See rest of article

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A Week With the Believer: Transmissions from Camp Trans. (2003)

The Believer is proud to present this article, which appeared in our pages in November, 2003, in full online for the first time. We will be

this was SUCH a good read. wow

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stop womyn are born womyn festival

stand up against hate and this TERF festival trying to make a comeback and sign my petition please

https://chng.it/Qb9FD9Qscg

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