Julia Serano - Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements...

2013, English, Julia Serano, USA,

Full title: "Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive" by Julia Serano.

"While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality -- sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some feminists vocally condemn other feminists because of how they dress, for their sexual partners or practices, or because they are seen as different and therefore less valued. 

Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise that certain ways of being gendered or sexual are more legitimate, natural, or righteous than others.

As a trans woman, bisexual, and femme activist, Julia Serano has spent much of the last ten years challenging various forms of exclusion within feminist and queer/LGBTQ movements. In Excluded, she chronicles many of these instances of exclusion and argues that marginalizing others often stems from a handful of assumptions that are routinely made about gender and sexuality. These false assumptions infect theories, activism, organizations, and communities -- and worse, they enable people to vigorously protest certain forms of sexism while simultaneously ignoring and even perpetuating others. "

According to Wikipedia, Julia Michelle Serano was born in 1967. She is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, trans–bi activist, and biologist, known for her transfeminist books Whipping Girl (2007), Excluded (2013), and Outspoken (2016). Her writing is frequently featured in LGBT and popular culture magazines. Assigned male at birth, she first consciously recognized in herself a desire to be female during the late 1970s, when she was 11 years old. A few years later, she began crossdressing.

At first, she crossdressed secretively, but she eventually started identifying herself openly as a "male crossdresser." Serano attended her first support group for crossdressers in 1994 while she lived in Kansas. In 1998, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she met her wife, and around then, she began identifying as not only a crossdresser but also transgender and bigender. In 2001, she began medically transitioning and identifying as a trans woman.

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