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Shon Faye
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Bristol, The United Kingdom
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The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
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2021
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14 editions
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Love in Exile
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2025
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14 editions
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We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights
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2021
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5 editions
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Unattached: Empowering Essays on Singlehood
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Pinkwashed: How Gays Sold Queer Liberation
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“This must be said: corporate diversity schemes can never guarantee the safety, dignity, and prosperity of the transgender worker - or, indeed, any worker - in the way that a strong and robust trade union movement and a properly funded welfare state can.”
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
“Yet - to speak personally - I can say that, ever since I was a child, I have had to learn to keep on going in a world which signaled to me at every turn that I was mad, bad, sick, deluded, disgusting, a pervert, a danger, unlovable. I still do...Often, in the course of writing and researching this book, I spoke to younger trans people and their families and found myself hoping that, at a deep psychic level, they would not have to abide with the recurrent narratives of disgust and shame that this world has always imposed on me. This is not intended to be self-pitying; hope, including mine, is precious and powerful.”
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
“In my own experience, it is entirely possible for a person to know a woman is trans, insist they do not believe she is really a woman, and yet still treat her misogynistically. This may seem a paradox, - but, as Serano argues, it is because our popular culture and media has spent decades depicting trans women as extreme embodiments of very misogynistic tropes. First, we are represented as agents of vapid and regressive femininity - vain, obsessed with how we look, stupid, weak, childish, and entitled. We are simultaneously hypersexualized: either as grotesque sexual deviants, particularly if we are unconventionally feminine (or lesbians); or, as yielding, sexually passive and deceptive if we are more feminine in appearance and/or if we date men.”
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
― The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
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