My Child is a Tomboy, Trans, Cis… Okay a Child

Yesterday’s New York Time’s saw the publication of “My Daughter Is Not Transgender. She’s a Tomboy” by Lisa Selin Davis. In the piece, Davis argues that her daughter is not trans, but rather a masculine-identifying girl, one who prefers shaggy…

When to Scream STFU

Several recent controversies have me thinking about the rules of free speech vs. symbolic violence in academe. Let me take three recent ones since I find myself taking radically different stands on all of them:

A Urinary Tranifesto: A Response to President Golden Showers

Some Background:

A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING OUR BATHROOMS.

Yesterday President He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named reversed the most basic protection of trans students: the right to pee.

We got a lot of work to do. It doesn’t involve punching Nazis upside the head.

Like a lot of people, I was part of the huge crowds in Washington, DC this weekend. And, like a lot of people, I didn’t just go to the Women’s March, but participated in protesting the…