TERFs in the Stacks: A Critical Weeding Inquiry

Note: While this guide excludes transphobic terminology from TERF scholars, the following resources, including abundant and specific references to instances of transphobia.

All social movements experience factional divides. Acknowledging these factional divides provides context to their history. 

In the book below, Schuller argues that much of feminism leading to current intersectional feminist theory is based largely on the work of activists in feminist counter history rather that popular figureheads. Examples in Schuller's book include: 

• Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton arguing against Black people’s suffrage in favor of white women’s suffrage.
• Celebrated birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger's supporting eugenics through population control politics
• Supporters of the Violence Against Women Act aligning with prisons over survivors of violence 

In this book, Schuller also argues how TERF political organizing is directly linked to the history of racism, classism, and other forms of discrimination and exploitation.

This box includes some of the titles we took note of when we were identifying materials with TERF ideology, arguments, or themes. Some of these materials are chapters within larger anthologies or are referring to the full book. Most of the materials focus on trans people, but others are more generally about feminist theory.