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transactivism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From trans- + activism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Activism in support of transgender people and issues relevant to them, such as ending discrimination, violence, and prejudice.
    • In addition, some early readers have come away with the conviction that in-your-face picketing-style transactivism originated with the Menace. 1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, page 14:
    • In retrospect, there’s no doubt this was a turning point for transactivism. It was the first really visible national demonstration we ever pulled off. 2003, anonymous, quoted in Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: Transgender Politics, page 232
    • This is a human rights orientated organisation and it carves out completely different discursive space when compared to US transactivism. 2005, Kate O'Riordan, “Transgender activism and the net: global activism or casualty of globalisation”, in Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers, editors, Global Activism, Global Media, page 186:

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