diverse strand of transfeminism ( Solá and Urko, 2013 : 21). Indeed, in Spanish and Latin American contexts, the prefix trans- includes transsexual and transgender subjects and the incorporation of intersectionality into analysis of oppression and vulnerabilities ( Valencia, 2018 ). Feminist and queer ‘commissions’ set up within the 15-M camps incorporated a gender perspective into their economic analysis – what was dubbed the ‘she-austerity approach’ ( Alcañiz and Monteiro, 2016 ) – and paid attention to specific intersectional issues such as migration, care work
, intersectionality informs transfeminisms ( Koyama 2003 ; Scott-Dixon 2006 ; Serano 2007 , 2013 ; Stryker and Bettcher 2016 ) and trans inclusive feminisms. Both intersectionality theory and transfeminisms highlight privilege and oppression among women, that is, that individual experience is characterized simultaneously by oppression and privilege, relationally and along different axes of identity. Intersectionality theory and transfeminisms share a concern with intersectionally marginalized groups, particularly trans women of colour ( Koyama 2003 ; simpkins 2016 ). However
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, 1996: 308). We can add on to this that a feminist viewpoint need not depend upon female socialisation in order to enable the feminist voices of transgender women to be heard. Koyama’s (2003) discussion of transfeminism, which expresses the feminist concerns of transgender women, shows how transgender politics may enable contemporary feminism to move beyond the confines of second-wave feminism. Koyama (2000) writes: “[Transfeminism] is not merely about merging trans politics with feminism, but it is a critique of the second wave feminism from third wave
communities helps us develop an image of ourselves vis-à-vis others. I also think something similar can be said about feminism, as I do think as it creates the ‘other’ it talks about, it creates this self-image of where we are speaking from and thinking from. We also know that terms such as ‘rule of law’ and ‘upholding the peace’ have colonial connotations. 7 Resistance to colonial, to settler violence is then always seen as disruptive to the state of peace rather than responding to violence. SS: Recent scholarship in Black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans-feminisms
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occur through the enlargement of a previously used concept (from reproductive rights to justice) or by making certain elements more prominent then they originally were (transfeminism). This type of coalition framing process requires that organisations act with an intersectional consciousness ( Greenwood, 2008 ) and adopt what Erica Townsend-Bell (2011) calls an alternative ‘politics of accountability’, that is, a critical scrutiny of organisational practices and the use of inclusive forms of deliberation to counter the (re)production of inequalities both within and
experiences as legitimate and as valid women’s experiences. It means that feminism treats trans-issues as supplementary, that it never touches 199 trans-issues without prejudice or without ignorance. A trustworthy feminist movement needs trans-feminism, because a feminism which does not engage with the most marginalised women is hardly trustworthy.13 Maria Ramnehill recognises a worried group of cis-feminists who do not want to identify with transphobic movements, who do not want to admit their part in the problem – but it could be a group who might want to change
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