Solidarity Is Possible: Rethinking Gay and Lesbian Activism in 1970s Australia

Fela, Geraldine; McCann, Hannah

doi:10.1080/08164649.2017.1407634

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“…She nods to intersectionality in defence of being 'gender-critical' but also argues that there are conflicts of interest between groups oppressed by gender and that the best way to deal with this is to organise primarily around being 'female people' for whom the way that gender is imposed is most oppressive, unique (and presumably homogenous). However, this is a mischaracterisation and flattening of both feminism's history and theorising which has often been much more intersectional and solidarity based (McCann & Fela 2017). For example, 'misogyny' can more usefully be seen as the root cause of many manifestations of gender-based subordination (Dembroff, 2019b), and Lawford Smith's analysis can be understood instead as mistaking the outcome for the cause.…”

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1' Something is said by philosophers to have 'normativity' when it entails that some action, attitude or mental state of some other kind is justified, an action one ought to do or a state one ought to be in 2 Cissexism refers to a system of beliefs and values, dominant in a majority of modern-day cultures, that positions cisgender bodies as more legitimate, particularly as embodied expressions of gender.

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Memories of Entanglement: Conflicts Around Sexuality at the Sydney Women’s Commission 1973

Torzillo

Goodall

2022

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Leave those kids alone: On the uses and abuses and feminist queer potential of non-binary and genderqueer

Nicholas¹,

Clark²

2020

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The argument of this paper is that, despite their limits, gender ‘proliferations’ like nonbinary and genderqueer are the most effective and pragmatic approaches to overcoming or dismantling the gender binary whilst also expanding the range of ‘cultural resources’ of gender in the meantime. We make this case with the political and ethical caveat, however, that it would be politically ideal for these invocations of proliferation to be complemented by ongoing attempts to challenge sex/gender itself. We first outline the many ways that non-binary and genderqueer identities are invoked by numerous commentators as either symbols of progress, or weaponised for antithetical political purposes by a coalition of forces hostile to their proliferation. We then outline a defence of these identities as ontologically, pragmatically and socially justified, with feminist and queer political potential. We will make an argument as to why the invocation of non-binary and genderqueer as identity or subject positions is both understandable, due to the cultural constraints of the compulsarity of gender identity in society, and a potentially politically effective strategy. We then go on to engage, generously, with some potential limitations around non-binary and genderqueer and their potential collapse in to normativity, and consider how these may be addressed or mitigated against by a queer ethics. In short, we argue that non-binary and genderqueer can be understood as ways to make space in a structure that is not likely to crumble any time soon.

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Solidarity Is Possible: Rethinking Gay and Lesbian Activism in 1970s Australia

Cited by 4 publications

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Memories of Entanglement: Conflicts Around Sexuality at the Sydney Women’s Commission 1973

Leave those kids alone: On the uses and abuses and feminist queer potential of non-binary and genderqueer

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