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Jude Ellison S. Doyle: DILF

Tue, January 27 from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

Join us for an evening of trans/feminist theory with Jude Doyle author of DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? Doyle will be joined in conversation by Katherine Cross.


 About the book: 

In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist Jude Doyle reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are…

 

When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career as a feminist—winning awards from women’s organizations, writing for women’s magazines, publishing books on “women’s issues.” Then, after a decade in the movement, he had to walk out in front of the public and tell them he had never been a woman at all.

 

Doyle offers a seldom-heard and much-needed transmasculine perspective on feminist subjects, drawing together strands of intersectional feminist theory and queer and trans politics to show that all their struggles are the same struggle: The fight for gender-marginalized people to maintain autonomy and full selfhood in a patriarchy that is always eager to hollow us out and use us to further its own agenda.

 

DILF offers a strong rebuke to trans-exclusionary feminisms that seek to drive a wedge between gender-marginalized communities. Using interviews, critical analysis, and Doyle’s own personal experience, DILF proves that feminism is a vital and necessary tool for breaking free of patriarchal control, whoever you are.
Katherine Cross

Katherine Cross

Katherine Cross is a widely published essayist and social critic, as well as a PhD Candidate and lecturer at the University of Washington's Information School. Her writing has been featured in WIRED magazine, Rolling Stone, The Verge, and numerous other outlets, including Liberal Currents, an online current affairs magazine where she serves as a contributing editor. Since 2009 she's written about everything from gender theory and politics, to the sociology of how we interact with technology. She's taught university classes about the ethics of information technology use, sci-fi and democracy, and the gendered history of modern computing. Her new book Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix is available now from Little Puss Press.

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