Can we NOT refer to a Black woman as "articulate", please?

That's the word white people pull out that means, "You Speak So Well."

It's born of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

You'd never say this out loud, but I've been living in this Black and woman body for over 30 years, and I'm here to tell you that white…

Patently false. I have no more hard feelings towards cisgender, heterosexual men than any other feminist woman just because I recognise the way patriarchy functions.

Not only that, but how long would RuPaul stand by and let someone refer to him/her as the "N" word? Or "faggot" or "sodomite?"

Wild hyperbolic visions do not make for a particularly solid argument, nor does slippery-slope arguments that ignore the realities of the actual situation being addressed. Tranny is a word used to denigrate trans women, to deny their identity as women. The fact that a small subset of crossdressing men use it to refer…

I recently read his comments regarding the use of "tranny" as a shorthand for Transvestite, and it really made me think. He basically says "I've been a 'tranny' for thirty years, so fuck you for saying I don't have a claim to this word." I have a difficult time with any sort of "reclaiming" rhetoric, so it was a…

I have been trying to understand the furor on both sides over this, and I have to thank you. Your post is the one that I finally see without question, what this whole situation means on a broad scale to many people.