Ray Filar says, divides liberation movements: ‘The suit wearers come in, then they take over. It happened to women’s liberation, to the gay liberation front, to the anti-AIDS movement, to black power.’ Filar suggests that this development leads to more ‘palatable’ trans people pulling the ladder up behind them and leaving their less acceptable comrades behind. Movements are taken out of the hands of the radical, angry, non-respectable, non-conforming people who did the years of unrewarded hard graft to make it all happen, then gradually they are overrun by small-[/blockquote] minded career
...more
