ABSTRACT

While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a “queer attack on feminist studies” at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not because of any actual transphobic behavior, but because of our work to question gender systems and ideologies. By examining how some students and diversity office staff alike mobilized the TERF, as well as the ideologies that allow for slippages among the terms “lesbian,” “feminist,” and “TERF,” we outline how the lesbian and the feminist are in danger of becoming permanently reactionary figures. In so doing, we reflect on the relationship between performing diversity work and policing academic studies of gender and sexuality, ultimately arguing that the mobilization of the TERF can function both to further extend the work of the diversity industry and also to call into question academic feminist, queer, and trans studies.

摘要

虽然关于多元化产业和跨性别激进女权主义者 (TERF) 的讨论很多，但很少有人研究它们之间的关系或与学术女权主义者、酷儿和跨性别研究的关系。本文将我们这所小型文理学院的“对女权主义研究的酷儿攻击”作为思考这些关系的案例研究。少数学生和多元化工作人员将女权主义研究教员称为 TERF，不是因为任何实际的跨性别行为，而是因为我们努力质疑性别制度和意识形态。通过研究一些学生和多元化办公室工作人员如何动员 TERF，以及允许在“女同性恋”、“女权主义者”和“TERF”等术语之间出现偏差的意识形态，我们概述了女同性恋和女权主义者如何处于危险之中成为永久的反动人物。这样做时，