TERF Island - Lux Magazine

By the early 2000s, the intersectional shift in feminism had become undeniable. Previous feminist scholarship and activism treated women as a class and sought to create positive change for that class. As the influence of applied postmodernism crept into feminism, however, the focus switched from material disadvantages within social structures like

As the strong men and well women have grown ever more entangled, and ever more ambitious in their goals, I have felt a mounting foreboding about what their cookie-cutter version of perfection will mean to the countless people who fall outside their embrace.

trans activists linking arms with reproductive justice activists promotes cultural peace: the coalition illustrates how these fights are linked under a common umbrella of gender justice and bodily autonomy.

By decisively rejecting “lean in” dogma and the feminism of the 1 percent, our feminism can become a beacon of hope for everyone else.

feminist, queer, and other social-justice theories were, in many ways, stuck—circling around a few contentious issues, locked into several theoretical ruts, trapped by their oppositional thinking.