Transfeminist perspectives: Beyond cisnormative understandings of the digital public sphere

Charlotte Galpin, Gina Gwenffrewi, Ash Stokoe
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In this essay we highlight the value of transfeminist theory for understanding the digital public sphere. Transfeminism allows us to challenge the devaluation of femininity that affects all women and femmes, while specifically challenging the marginalisation of people whose gender expression does not match societal stereotypes of the gender and sex binary, particularly those who experience oppression on multiple axes. Building on existing intersectional approaches to social media, we demonstrate how transfeminism’s capacity to deconstruct binaries, such as online/offline and public/private, and the essential concepts it provides us, such as transmisogyny and networks of care, are crucial for understanding the operation of contemporary transphobia as well as possibilities and opportunities for resistance and solidarity. Using two recent cases in the UK, we firstly consider the circulation of transphobic discourse in the hybrid media system through the onslaught of abuse faced by Trades Union Congress Policy Officer for Industry and Climate, trans woman Mika Minio-Paluello. Secondly, we reflect on the possibility of transfeminist counterpublics of care emerging from protests around Drag Queen Story Hours. This discussion is not meant to be exhaustive but rather a call to action for further transfeminist scholarship in this area.
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在这篇文章中,我们强调了跨女性主义理论对理解数字公共领域的价值。跨性别女性主义使我们能够挑战影响所有女性的女性气质贬值,同时特别挑战那些性别表达不符合社会对性别和性别二元的刻板印象的人的边缘化,特别是那些遭受多重压迫的人。在现有的社会媒体交叉方法的基础上,我们展示了跨性别女性主义如何解构二元对立,如线上/线下和公共/私人,以及它为我们提供的基本概念,如跨性别女性和护理网络,对于理解当代跨性别恐惧症的运作以及抵抗和团结的可能性和机会至关重要。以英国最近的两个案例为例,我们首先通过工会大会工业和气候政策官员、跨性别女性Mika Minio-Paluello所面临的辱骂攻击,来考虑跨性别话语在混合媒体系统中的传播。其次,我们反思跨性别女权主义者反公众关注的可能性,这些关注来自于围绕变装皇后故事时间的抗议活动。这个讨论并不是详尽无遗的,而是呼吁在这个领域进一步开展跨性别女权主义研究。
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