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Interchange

Interchange is an archive for online commentaries Emi posts to various message boards and mailing lists.

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DateForumTopic
02/13/13 Trans-Academics Enabling Puberty Consistent with Age as well as Gender Identity (double standard in delaying puberty for transgender youth)
01/23/13 WMST-L Gender-Neutral Language for Menstruation? (critic is right to be concerned, but for the wrong reason)
12/06/12 debito.org Ryuhei Kawada: Liberal, Libertarian, or Right-Wing? (Your Party and Japan's urban populist reform movements)
10/30/12 Trans-Academics Bem Sex Role Inventory and "Gender Tests" (dissimilar intent and validity)
08/26/12 /r/AskFeminists "Patriarchy," Historical and Present (second wave feminists resurrected the term for a reason)
08/22/12 CFI Portland Listserv Understanding What "Illegitimate" Rapes Are (competing conception of "rape" is at the core of the gaff)
08/19/12 /r/AskFeminists The Politics of "Radical" (radical feminism, radical women of color, and trans women)
08/08/12 /r/AskFeminists Margins and Marginalization (problems with feminist "priorities")
08/07/12 /r/AskFeminists How to Stop Statistical Discrimination (employer discrimination and women's life choices reinforce each other)
08/05/12 WMST-L Impossibility of Finding "Reliable Source" on Sex Trafficking (focus on research methodology, not authoritativeness of the source)
07/09/12 /r/AskFeminists Sexism as a Social System (circularity is the key to understanding social oppressions)
07/06/12 /r/AskFeminists In Defense of "Bottom-Up" Feminism (imagining a feminism without the "ultimate goal")
07/05/12 /r/AskFeminists On Taking on the Label "Feminist" (it's not about definitions, but about respect)
06/14/12 /r/feminisms & /r/Feminism The Politics of "Women's Sports" (it is not about biological sex differences)
06/13/12 WMST-L Book and Film on Sex Trafficking Reproduce Trafficker-Victim Dynamic (raw voices sound raw because they were stolen voices)
06/14/12 emigrl.Tumblr.com Conditional Acceptance is Worse Than Total Rejection (on treating trans women as non-women women)
06/13/12 Facebook Trans "Allies" Must Do A Better Job (dealing with dishonest opponent requires greater argumentation, not weaker)
06/12/12 /r/AskFeminists Feminism vs. Egalitarianism (real movement is not a subset of abstract philosophy or value)
06/06/12 WMST-L Not Just Another Inquiry for Scholarly Resources (women's studies community needs to challenge colonialist "research" projects)
05/22/12 WMST-L "Safety" as a Cover for Academic Entitlement? (in defense of fair use in academic listservs)
05/14/12 Portland Feminist Meetup (facebook) Ideological Purity and Siege Mentality Among Radical Feminists (automatic suspicion of those deemed "outsiders" is counter-productive)
03/01/12 Radical Sex-Positive Feminists (facebook) Against the Neoliberal (Homo)normativity of Sex Positivity Discourse (expaining my objection to sex positive movement)
02/21/12 Portland Feminist Meetup (facebook) Paradoxical Neoliberalism of Radical Feminism and the Radical Feminism of Trans Liberation (demand to examine constructedness of cisphillic desire is actually a radical feminist proposition)
05/17/11 WMST-L Rhetorical Politics of Anti-Prostitution Feminism (we must start from the assumption of complicated and diverse experiences)
04/30/11 QSTUDY-L Questions and Answers about Intersex/DSD (difficulty goes beyond simply finding the right terminology)
04/19/11 QSTUDY-L Bystander Effect of Biphobia and Transphobia within "Gay Liberation" (professing to be "uncomfortable" is not enough)
12/03/10 Trans-Academics "Unfair Advantage" is Unfairly Singled Out (don't let them get away with enforcing cissexism while appearing trans-friendly)
11/03/10 Trans-Academics Internship is for Learning (student interns as unpaid workers is not a model we should emulate)
02/02/10 QSTUDY-L Imperialism is not a Lifestyle Choice (there is no way to individually "opt out" of imperialist project)
01/27/10 WMST-L Where is the Discussion of Positive Sexuality? (anti-porn conference lacks discussion of alternatives to the porn culture)