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Julia Serano

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Also known as Julia Michelle Serano, Julia M. Serano, Dr. Julia Serano, Dr. Julia Michelle Serano, Dr. Julia M. Serano, Serano, Julia Michelle, Dr. Serano, Julia Michelle

American writer and activist

Person · Open Library

Born
1967
Works
8

Top works

  • Gender Outlaws
  • Take Me There
  • Believe Me
  • Trans/Love
  • Whipping Girl

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Person

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Total plays
2,135

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spoken wordactivismfeministpoetrypoet

Julia Serano is a spoken word artist, writer, trans activist and biologist. She is also lyricist-guitarist-vocalist for Bitesize. http://www.juliaserano.com <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Julia+Serano">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • People usually gravitate toward single-issue activism because they are unconcerned about forms of marginalization that do not personally impact them.
  • Once a person acknowledges that they possess some form of privilege, they are more likely to accept the reality that they are not in any way objective about the form of marginalization in question
  • Women who insist that trans women are not women often object to being called “cis women” under the false assumption that it somehow undermines their femaleness — this is not at all the purpose of this language. The sole purpose of cis terminology is to name the unmarked majority (similar to how one might refer to white women, or heterosexual women, or able-bodied women, etc.). In other words, referring to someone as “cisgender” simply means that they have not had a transgender experience.
  • Like women more generally, many trans women are feminists. Feminism and transgender activism are not in any way incompatible or mutually exclusive. As feminists who acknowledge intersectionality, we believe that we should be fighting to end all forms of sexism and marginalization — this includes both traditional sexism and transphobia. Forcing trans women into a separate group that is distinct from cis women does not in any way help achieve feminism’s central goal of ending sexism.
  • While gender socialization is quite real, all of us are capable of overcoming or transcending the socialization that we experienced as children. And gender socialization doesn’t simply stop when one reaches adulthood: All of us are constantly facing gender-related social pressures, expectations, and obstacles throughout our lives. If you believe that these statements are true for cis women, then they also must be true for trans women.
  • Trans women do not transition out of a desire to be feminine; we transition out of a self-understanding that we are or should be female (commonly referred to as gender identity).

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Official website
www.juliaserano.com
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Julia Serano
date of birth
1967-00-00
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