maybe less engaged with labor and socialism but more intersectional with race, and queerer (I’m thinking about sort of broad-based popular feminism here), and I can kind of see how those things could be protecting against TERFism

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—the US person playing the most similar role to, say, Nina Power before her weird turn was maybe Roxane Gay? Who is just in a totally different political community I’ve always thought English culture seemed more laddish than ours in some ways—this was pre-Trump presidencies—and our feminism was

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Somewhere else in this thread, someone speculated that our more powerful and visible evangelical right-wing power base negatively polarizes feminists against the Christian Right’s concerns, which makes sense to me. But also, the visible feminism here in recent decades has been blog/twitter feminism

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Yes, this is a better articulation of my point than I gave

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You guys have a real TERF intellectual tradition that barely exists over here. Liberals here can be influenced by anti-trans ideas for sure, but the leadership is right-wing. We don’t have a real equivalent in our culture of the feminist anti-trans public intellectuals y’all have so many of

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