Gender as a proxy: Diagnosing and resisting carceral genderisms

Abstract

brief-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-women-en.pdf?la=en&vs=1406 2. The symposium was planned by madeleine kennedy-macfoy and Ulrika Dahl and organized on Zoom through the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The organisers would like to thank managing editor Hazel Johnstone for helping with logistics, Lucia Pedrioli and Rebecka White for excellent technical support with building, distributing and carrying out the programme and Ana Sevillano, Béa Manigat, Meryld Koui, Yaili Meneses and Loreto Rodriguez Untoria for providing simultaneous translation of the symposium into French and Spanish. We also thank all the contributing speakers, the roughly 50 academics, students, and activists from all over Europe and beyond who participated, and last, but certainly not least, the board of associate editors of European Journal of Women's Studies and former senior editor Kathy Davis for all their contributions and hard work in making this event happen. 3. https://www.luminafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/covid-lessons-for-globalhigher-education.pdf 4. ibid

Where is the T* in European Journal of Women’s Studies?

“…Much ink and make-up has been spilled trying to both unpack and counter new and old forms of trans-exclusionary radical feminism and what is sometimes called ‘gender-critical’ feminism (cf. Bassi and LaFleur, 2022; Franklin, 2022; Pan, 2022; Pearce et al, 2019; Tudor, 2021; Vincent et al, 2020, among others). As Nay and Steinbock (2021: 146) note in their introduction to a recent special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly , Europe in the early 2020s is shaped by a ‘toxic brew of populism, xenophobia, fundamentalist Christianity, and trans exclusionary radical feminism (TERF)’ that ‘has the combining ingredient of devaluing all expressions of trans gender embodiment/ identification that becomes multiplied along the lines of oppressions based on race, class, religion, resident status/displacement, and disability.’ It is worth questioning whether this brew deserve to be called feminist at all and if so, we need to attend to how and why this brew leaves a bitter after-taste for so many of us.…”