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For the twenty-first-century feminist who has never heard of this schismatic moment and has perhaps swallowed the narrative that transphobia and biological essentialism were intrinsic to feminism’s Second Wave, reading the movement magazine the Lesbian Tide is an education

— James Baldwin https://t.co/kGyuaBWDVl

general decline of left-revolutionary feminism and corresponding growth of “female cultural nationalism” accompanied a gradual rise, by certain former radicals, to echelons of institutional and media privilege with seemingly endless column inches to spare for these women’s newfound anti-utopian cynicism and bitterness