Hi, I'm Willow! I mostly blog about social justice, music, intersectional feminism, movies/tv shows, and trans* issues. I get sad a lot.

she/her/hers.
queer transfeminine goddess.

I'm a 20 year old Women's Studies major at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

I know that I have white privilege, class privilege, physically-able privilege, and I usually have conditional cis-passing / binary-passing privilege. I work to be aware of those and reconcile them, but PLEASE call me out if I say or do something problematic. I will do my best to listen and change my behavior accordingly.

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What astounds me the most about cis feminism is how cis women expect me to share their love of popular/historical cis feminist icons when these women haven’t said a single thing about my experience. But I’m not allowed to complain about them unless they have gone out of their way to say something negative about trans women. How are these women relevant to me when they haven’t even acknowledged me? Silence isn’t support. Your responsibility to include people you have privilege over increases as the amount of visibility you have does, and cis women giving all of their pals the benefit of the doubt because they choose to ignore trans women is complicity with oppression. Putting the burden of proof on trans women to prove that someone is transmisogynistic, rather than putting the burden of proof on that person to prove that they aren’t transmisogynistic, implies that the starting point for a cis woman is that she is by default not transmisogynistic. Being immersed in a transmisogynistic culture is not a choice, but it is your starting point, and one you need to actively differentiate yourself from. Choosing to participate in a transmisgoynistic social movement (feminism) requires you to individuate and differentiate yourself from the movement affirmatively. If you don’t do that, I don’t know how you can expect me to receive you positively.

Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence

Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces

Crazy in Love: The Diagnosis and Treatment of “Female Hysteria” During the Late Nineteenth Century

Naughty Girl: Disidentification and the Performance of Female Sexual Promiscuity

Cater 2 U: Female Subservience and the Reinforcement of Hegemonic Gendered Power Structures

Get Me Bodied: A Radical Critique of the Sex/Gender Binary

Freakum Dress: The Role of Consumerism in the Construction and Assertion of Female Sexuality

Videophone: Social Networking Technology and the Deconstruction of the Dominant Gaze

Run the World (Girls): Historical Perspectives on Global Female Leadership

Bills Bills Bills: The Dual-Income Model and the Reshaping of the Domestic Sphere

Soldier: The Hypermasculinization of U.S. Military Culture

Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still Be Expected to Perform Domestic Labor During the “Second Shift”) Like That