PART I. Transfeminine Blues; 1. Trans porn, Trans women, and the Fetishization of "tgurls"; 2. There Is Nothing Universal to Say About Trans Women and Male Privilege; 3. Trannies, Traps, and the Third Gender; 4. Becoming the Woman I Never Was; 5. Embracing Ambiguity; 6. On Being an Angry Tranny; PART II. Intersectional Feminism; 7. Trans Feminism Is Real Feminism; 8. The Paradoxical Duality of Cat-calling; 9. Dysphoria as a Symptom of Modernity; 10. Turned On by Intelligence but Turned Off by Ableism: a Critique of Sapiosexualism; 11. Why I Was Not Born in the Wrong Body; 12. The Inherent Superiority of Softness; 13. Nobody Is Trans Enough; PART III. Life in Transition; 14. Let Trans Women Grow; 15. Early Days of Transition: a Phenomenology of Change; 16. Learning to say "Fuck it" to Passing; 17. Hyper-vigilance in the Gender Machine; PART IV. Gender & Politics; 18. Monster Politics: On-being-an-assemblage; 19. Is the Very Concept of "Passing" Problematic?; 20. Is Dysphoria Necessary for Being Trans? The "Truscum" Debate; 21. Radical Feminism, Essentialism, and Normality; 22. Autogynephilia, the Gift That Keeps on Giving; 23. Transgender Ideology in America: Gender Hacking, Bio-sex, and the New Identity Politics; 24. A Plea for Agnosticism in an Age of Ardor; 25. There I Go Again, Thinking I Have a Basic Right to Exist in Society; PART V. Metaphysics & Epistemology; 26. Against the Sex/Gender Distinction; 27. Trans Without Transition? A Critique of Gender Identity; 28. How Do I Know I Am Trans?; 29. Gender Identity as a Brain-in-a-Vat; 30. Gender Agnosticism; 31. The Promise and Failure of Gender Nihilism; PART IV. Autobiography; 32. Giving Up My Male Privilege; 33. Why I Left Academic Philosophy; 34. U-hauling, Radical Vulnerability, and the Existential Feels of Queer, Poly Love; 35. "That's so crazy!": Ableism, Madness, and the Politics of Perfect Language; 36. Queering Personal Finance; 37. t4t
Provocative essays that empower readers, raise awareness and break down misconceptions about trans identities
Rachel Anne Williams is a trans woman who runs the popular blog www.transphilosopher.com. She has 5000+ Twitter followers and 1000+ YouTube subscribers and has written for publications such as Medium. She previously worked in academia as a philosopher, and is based in the US.
Williams's terrific work breaking down academic concepts into
understandable language and clear, concrete ideas will be a boon to
both newbies to and veterans of the trans experience and
issues.
*Publishers Weekly*
Taking unerring aim at the patriarchal transphobia that saturates
our lives, Williams' piercing insights and vivid personal accounts
capture the heartbreak and the hope of existing in this world as a
transgender human being.
*Zinnia Jones, creator of Gender Analysis*
Rachel Williams' Transgressive should be required reading for human
beings. Her skillful interweaving of autobiography and theory not
only radically improves our understanding of sex and gender, but
also manifests kindness and wisdom on every page. I have never been
as entertained by something so fundamentally helpful.
*Jon Cogburn, Louisiana State University Department of Philosophy,
author of Garcian Meditations and (with Mark Silcox) Philosophy
Through Video Games*
Williams writes with exceptional clarity and candor about some
intellectually and emotionally difficult subjects, and somehow she
manages to do so in a voice that is equal parts confident and
modest. It would be hard to exaggerate how much I learned from this
remarkable collection of essays.
*Christopher Heath Wellman, Professor of Philosophy at Washington
University in St. Louis*
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