There’s something so openly disrespectful about how Serano is never cited in academic scholarship for coining the term transmisogyny. Butler is always cited for gender performativity. Puar is always cited for homonationalism. Edelman is always cited for reproductive futurism. All these ubiquitous academic terms used in queer & feminist studies that, even when considered canonical and universally recognized, still require a citation. But transmisogyny (if it’s even acknowledged at all) is this free floating idea, a common word that needs no citation, no reference to the labour of theory building, no acknowledgement of an intellectual tradition that Serano was instrumental in advancing. if you fail to cite the queers and the gays it’s deemed an error by peer reviewers, but the work of trans women needs no citation
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