A Transfeminist Media Archaeology of Radical Feminism’s Futures

• In Event: Transgression, Gender Disturbance, and Feminist Sci-Fi Futures

Abstract

Transfeminism, the need to think trans* issues and feminism together, is a pressing concern. Debates have broken out on Twitter and feminist blogs about who feminism ought to serve as well as how cisgender feminists might be better trans* allies. While Cathy Brennan and Sheila Jeffreys consider themselves to be carrying on radical feminism, this paper argues otherwise. In order to do so, it offers a transfeminist media archaeology of science fiction in the 1970s that shows radical feminism to be in pursuit of the possibility of living a gendered life differently.

Presenter

• Roxanne Samer, University of Southern California