Adrienne Rich died at the age of 82 in Santa Cruz, California. Member of the New Left, Poet, Feminist, author of Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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In the diary torn from my fingers I had written:
What does love mean
what does it mean “to survive”
A cable of blue fire ropes our bodies
burning together in the snow We will not live
to settle for less We have dreamed of this
all of our lives
-Adrienne Rich, Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev
from The Dream of a Common Language
1974
It’s a pity she was so vocally and overtly transphobic, though.
It seems that the only evidence for Rich’s being “overtly and vocally transphobic” are passages from Janice Raymond’s book “The Transexual Empire”. Is there other evidence of her being “overtly and vocally transphobic”?
She was involved with the Raymond book, and never, in the decades she had to do so, refuted that hateful piece of filth.
Yes, she was involved with the Raymond book. Are there other instances of her being “overtly and vocally transphobic”?
So being a proud part of the Mein Kampf of transphobia isn’t enough for you?
What is this “Raymond Book” of which you speak?
Janice Raymond: The Transsexual Empire
It’s a straightforward question: what evidence is there, aside from her involvement with the Raymond book, that Adrienne Rich was transphobic?