In this second edition of her bestselling book, BDSM Crisis Actor Mistress Persephone Rose invites readers to explore the connection between “modern sissification and feminization kinks” and the wider Trans world.
‘A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times’ – Jordy Rosenberg ‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging and harm, this book is a transfeminist call for…
The psychotherapy conducted under LSD intoxication included 12 homosexual males (6 ephebophilic and 6 androphilic subjects) and 6 transsexual females. The transsexual females were non-neurotic and no traumatism was found in their sociopsychic sphere. Despite their excellent co-operation the therapy revealed an absolute hopelessness of adaptation of their socio-sexual orientation. LSD was rather inclined to…
An unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called “anti-gender” movement—which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism”—has found immense international power and is…
Maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde’s use of the erotic as theory and methodology. The author turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism…
Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine: Transgender in the 1910s. This article is about Arnold T., a trans woman who lived in Zurich during the 1910s. The analytical focus is on the historically specific construction of a transgender self- identity. Using a unique set of sources, it demonstrates how Arnold T. developed a relationship with herself through a…
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation is a 2004 book by Italian-American intellectual Silvia Federici. Responding to both feminist and Marxist traditions, the book offers a critical addition to Karl Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation.
This project is a historical and theoretical exploration of the global phenomenon of underground dance music culture known as the rave. In particular, the project asks what is the history, technologies, and practices that lead to historical examples of rave culture and contemporary rave practices. The rise of fascism and neofascism in Western democracies in…
Repudiations of trans-exclusionary radical feminism often take the form of a call to strip from TERFs the name feminist. TERFism, it is often argued, is not “real feminism,” and in this same vein it is sometimes argued that lesbian exponents of transmisogyny are not a “real” part of queer history. Asa Seresin and Sophie Lewis—both…
In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to…