TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY DISCOURSE, WHITE FEMINIST FAILURES, AND THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON, DC

This chapter discusses the thread of conversation from the march itself to small changes in the Women’s March social media to the continuing presence of trans-exclusionary radical feminists within the larger movement. It explores how the Women’s March on Washington, DC, represents a particularly white feminist failure as “white privilege is tied to radical feminists’ ability to incite scorn toward a vulnerable minority and not only get away with it, but remain gainfully employed in the process”. The chapter provides information on queering the Women’s March discourse and offers suggestions on using education, empathy, and interventions to do what calls “multi-identity work”. The frameworks of intersectional and queer theories provide a strong background for studying how structural inequities, embodied queerness, and multifaceted identities all combine to affect how feminist activists interact with each other and with larger institutions to which they belong.