Trans Women and Sis Women Are Women, and All Are Women

Chimemanda clarified her statement soon after the interview in a facebook post where she wrote, perhaps i should have said that trans women are transwomen. This statement did not make the controversy go away. It continued on social media and in the press for the next several years until chimamanda called out her two former students an the pretty fiery essay she wrote last june. I wanted to know why this very prominent nigerian feminist and global literary figure has been so troubled by what she describes as a passionate perform ance of virtue That is well executed in the public space of twitter, but not in the intimate space of friendship. And so i asked, and she had quite a lot