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Rather Be Reading, Episode 3: Bad Desires

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The Transgender Woman at the 1973 Lesbian West Coast Conference

In the 70s maleness was abstracted. You're no longer actually talking about men, you're talking about a structure of relating to other people which was in itself misogynist patriarchal oppressive. The transsexual woman is just the last in a whole series of different ways that patriarchy could be smuggled into lesbian utopia. And so would you say that the analogy between that position and the tourist position is that in their mind what the transgender woman does is in fact giving to a certain kind of desires that she refuses to engage with critically? Yes, absolutely.

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