Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s

Enke, Finn

doi:10.1215/23289252-4291502

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“…Consciousness raising entails reinterpreting one's individual experiences, seeing them as shaped by social forces, and identifying as part of a group with shared experiences (Enke, 2018; Rosen, 2000). The Wade family activated consciousness raising by redefining Zaya's experience as a Black trans youth to members of Black community within the media landscape.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya

Grant

Aruah

2023

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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In 2020, former NBA player Dwyane Wade discussed how his child, Zaya came out as transgender. He used his platform to generate discussions about Black parenting specifically parenting a child in the Black transgender community. In the past 3 years, Wade and his celebrity wife Gabrielle Union have shared their parental journey of Zaya through social media and mainstream media. This study explores the identity complexities of critical race parenting through media platforms. By openly using social media and mass media to support Zaya, they opened the world to the journey of parenting a transgender Black child. The study addressed the significance of social media as an educational and activism tool in marginalized communities as a way to confront media stereotypes of Black families.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya

Grant

Aruah

2023

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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“…Our methodology combines an oral history approach with a transfeminist framework, thus engaging with trans studies and the feminist approach, bearing in mind that one of the strongest insights offered by feminist oral history is that, as much as stories represent individual and private experiences, they also connect to collective experiences and the individual stories also become the story of many others. Inspired by Enke's (2018) statement that 'I want to invite a transfeminist history that [. .…”

Section: The Mit's Oral Archive: a Trans(feminist) Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Voli

Virtù

2023

Memory Studies

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In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between history, memory, archiving and trans experiences. This body of work has shown how questioning the praxis of archiving from the vantage point of trans experiences has the potential to problematise cis-heteronormative assumptions around the body, time and space and to queer the epistemological premises around what constitutes archives and archival practices. In this article, we present the experience of the project ArchiviST* – Archivi Storia Trans (Trans History Archives) which aims to create the first archive exclusively dedicated to the history of trans lives and activism in contemporary Italy. The project has been promoted by Trans Identity Movement, the most influential and long-lived trans association in Italy. Since its birth in 1979, Trans Identity Movement informally collected a substantial documentary heritage concerning trans and LGBTQIA+ history as a political practice to preserve the counter-memories of its people and movements. The ArchiviST* project carries out the inventorying and digitising of the materials, together with the collection of original video-recorded interviews with pioneering activists of the trans movement. By presenting a reflection on the process of ‘reconstructing’ an archive in this context, we unpack and explore some of the key issues surrounding trans archiving and collective memories in the Italian context: what counts as collective memory? What types of relationships are established between trans memories and the documents present in the archive? What memories have (not) been told, and what voices and subjects have (not) emerged as protagonists? We encourage a reflexive attitude towards the practice of trans archiving to problematise established historiographical categories, such as time, private/public, political engagement, life history and memory and to recognise the ethical and methodological challenges that such a path poses to historiography and archive research in general.

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“…This was especially due to the advent of postmodern feminism and queer theory – particularly Judith Butler’s (1990) interventions that theorised binary notions of sex and gender as culturally constituted – along with the emergence of transgender studies as a field in the 1990s (Stryker & Aizura, 2013). It also followed from trans people’s everyday involvement in feminist movements, which has been a reality in many countries for decades (Cutuli, 2015; Enke, 2018; Garriga-López, 2016).…”

Section: Trans/feminist Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

TERF wars: An introduction

Pearce

Erikainen²,

Vincent

2020

The Sociological Review

173

102

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In the academic year of 2017-18, one of the editors of this volume convened a course on gender and sexuality at a UK university. The course elicited overwhelmingly positive feedback from students. However, following examinations an invigilator expressed concern, communicated via management, with the language some students used in their answers. Specifically, the invigilator took issue with students employing the acronym 'TERF' (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) to criticise a range of ideological positions, because they considered the acronym a misogynist slur. The course convenor's line manager subsequently asked whether the term was used within teaching materials. The convenor had not, in fact, used the TERF acronym at all in any of their teaching, nor explicitly engaged with questions of 'pro' or 'anti' trans 1 positions within feminism. A lecture on trans feminism had focused specifically on understanding transphobia as a manifestation of misogyny, drawing on the work of writers such as Julia Serano (2007), and media analysis of films, including Silence of the Lambs and Ace Ventura. It was the students themselves who applied what they had learned from contemporary popular discourse to their exam scripts. They had chosen to use the acronym to reference a series of increasingly fraught disputes over how feminism should conceptualise and respond to trans identities and experiences, and did so because 'TERF' was part of their everyday vernacular in discussing the politics of gender, sex and inclusion/exclusion in feminism. The invigilator's objection to the acronym, meanwhile, is indicative of wider

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Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

“With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya

“With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Black Parenting of Zaya

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

TERF wars: An introduction

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