Comments on: Adrienne Rich has Died

By: --bill

--bill — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:37:31 +0000

It’s a straightforward question: what evidence is there, aside from her involvement with the Raymond book, that Adrienne Rich was transphobic?

By: Chris from Europe

Chris from Europe — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:45:28 +0000

Janice Raymond: The Transsexual Empire

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:08:56 +0000

What is this “Raymond Book” of which you speak?

By: Happiestsadist

Happiestsadist — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:00:55 +0000

So being a proud part of the Mein Kampf of transphobia isn’t enough for you?

By: --bill

--bill — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:08:25 +0000

Yes, she was involved with the Raymond book. Are there other instances of her being “overtly and vocally transphobic”?

By: Happiestsadist

Happiestsadist — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:20:05 +0000

She was involved with the Raymond book, and never, in the decades she had to do so, refuted that hateful piece of filth.

By: --bill

--bill — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:27:38 +0000

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”?

By: Happiestsadist

Happiestsadist — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:47:34 +0000

It’s a pity she was so vocally and overtly transphobic, though.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:12:39 +0000

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