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The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation : Code Switch
Author Jules Gill-Peterson poses next to the cover of her recent book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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Author Jules Gill-Peterson poses next to the cover of her recent book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Author headshot via publisher
Trans women have become culturally associated with the violence they face, both in sympathy and stigma. The historian Jules Gill-Peterson looks to how that came to be in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny. This week, we talk about how panics around trans femininity are shaped by wider forces of colonialism, segregation, and class interests.
This episode was co-hosted by Gene Demby and B.A. Parker, produced by Jess Kung and Xavier Lopez, and edited by Leah Donnella. Our engineer was James Willetts.