Thursday, May 5, 2016

The Antioch Review Publishes Transphobic Article; Here's What Happens Next

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So this has been a big story on my social media feed today. For those not in the know, here is a summary of what happened: 1) The academic...

Moving Beyond the Cisgender Actor/Transgender Character Meme

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Earlier this week I published a new piece on Medium entitled Expanding Trans Media Representation: Why Transgender Actors Should Be Cast in...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Excerpt from Whipping Girl Second Edition

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As some of you may have heard, the Second Edition of my first book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of F...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Touring with Sister Spit!

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Hey folks, starting tomorrow (aka, Friday) I will be on tour with the legendary spoken word troupe Sister Spit ! Other artists include Jezeb...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Whipping Girl Second Edition is out this week!

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The second edition of my first book, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity , is officially relea...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Julia update: Whipping Girl 2nd edition, Sister Spit 2016, future releases, and more!

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So yesterday I sent out my latest email update . In it, I discuss: 1) Whipping Girl 2nd edition is here! 2) March 2016 tour dates (includ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

placing Ken Zucker's clinic in historical context

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Note added March 28, 2021: Five years after it was published, this post is receiving renewed attention in the wake of Jesse Singal's rec...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

I’m discontinuing comments on my blog. Here’s why...

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So as the title plainly states, I plan to deactivate the comments section of my blog posts moving forward. (Previously posted comments will...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Julia update: new books for 2016!

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So yesterday I sent out my latest email update . In it, I discuss: 1) Whipping Girl 2nd edition to be released in March 2016! 2) my 3rd b...
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Michelle Goldberg's relentless anti-trans bias

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People are asking me to respond to the latest Michelle Goldberg article , wherein she paints transgender activism as this horrible activist ...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Critiquing the "Political Correctness Run Amok" Meme (yet again)

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For those of you who may have missed it, last week I wrote another article critiquing the recent and increasing trend of anti-"politica...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Julia Serano on Judith Butler

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Note added in 2021: In the years subsequent to this essay being published, Judith Butler has come out as nonbinary and now uses they/them p...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

consider bringing Julia Serano out to your college campus!

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So a new academic year has begun, and as always, I am looking forward to having the opportunity to speak/perform at various colleges & u...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Regarding Trans* and Transgenderism

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Last year, in the second half of my piece A Personal History of the “T-word” (and some more general reflections on language and activism) ,...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Regarding "Political Correctness" (my first post on Medium)

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Those of you who have read my book Excluded (particularly the last chapter, "Balancing Acts") know that I have long been concerne...
Monday, July 13, 2015

The real "autogynephilia deniers"

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Note: updated links and additional entries were added to this post in October, 2019. A more thorough review of autogynephilia theory and the...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Cisgender and dictionary definitions

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This is happened two weeks ago, so some of you may have already heard the news. But for those who didn't, cisgender was recently added t...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

"What Makes/Is a Woman" and the false "feminists vs transgender activists" binary

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Last weekend, The New York Times published an opinion piece by  Elinor Burkett called "What Makes a Woman? " If the title looks ee...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Reconceptualizing “Autogynephilia” as Female/Feminine Embodiment Fantasies (FEFs)

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[note added November, 2016: This essay (with additional material!) now appears as a chapter in my third book  Outspoken: A Decade of Tran...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Julia update May 2015 - new writings & stuff!

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So today I sent out my latest email update. It offers links to some new (& newish) writings, including my op-ed on the Jenner interview ...