SE02 E03: Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers
Bettcher Show Notes
Article:
Bettcher, Talia Mae. “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers: On Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion.” Hypatia, vol. 22, no. 3. 2007 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4640081
Update on Gwen Araujo’s family’s advocacy:
Mayeda, Olivia Cruz. “Gwen Araujo’s Mother Reflects 20 Years After Her Daughter’s Murder.” The San Francisco Standard, 4 Oct. 2022, sfstandard.com/2022/10/04/gwen-araujo-transgender-mother-murder-san-francisco-memorial/.
Suggested viewing:
Disclosure. Directed by Sam Feder, Bow & Arrow Entertainment/Field of Vision, 2020, Netflix,
https://www.disclosurethemovie.com/
Kokomo City. Directed by D. Smith, Magnolia Pictures, 2023.
The Stroll. Directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker, HBO Documentary Films, 2023.
Alex Adamson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Babson College
Work by Alex:
Adamson, A. C. “Epistemological Foundations of Transmarxism: Queer Dialectics and Marxist Humanism.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, 2024, pp. 348–369. Duke University Press, https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11215535
Adamson, Alex. “Beyond the Coloniality of Gender: María Lugones, Sylvia Wynter, Decolonial Feminism, and Trans and Intersex Liberation.” Philosophy and Global Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2, 2022, pp. 299–329, https://doi.org/10.5840/pga20231939
Ding, Lecturer at Barnard College, Columbia University
Work by Ding:
Ding. “Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination.” Signs, vol. 50, no. 3, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1086/733806
Ding. “The Cisgender Tipping Point.” APA Studies on LGBTQ Philosophy, vol. 25, no. 1, 2025, https://www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/B4B9E534-A677-4F29-8DC9-D75A5F16CC55/LGBTQV25n1.pdf#page=23
Ding and Willow Star, editors. Being Trans in Philosophy [Zine] 2025: https://being.transinphilosophy.org/
Other work by Talia Bettcher:
Ding has curated a bibliography of the work of Talia Mae Bettcher: https://dingherself.com/resources/bettcher-bibliography/
Talia Mae Bettcher, Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press, 2025,
https://www.taliamaebettcher.com/beyond-personhood
Talia Mae Bettcher, “Feminist perspectives on trans issues,” Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, 2009,
Talia Mae Bettcher, “Trapped in the wrong theory: Rethinking trans oppression and resistance,”
Signs 39(2), 2014, https://doi.org/10.1086/673088
Things we discussed or mentioned
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Vintage, 2011.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990.
Frye, Marilyn. The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Crossing Press, 1983.
Garfinkel, Harold. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Prentice-Hall, 1967.
MacKinnon, Catherine A. Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination. Yale University Press, 1979.
Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs, vol. 5, no. 4, 1980, pp. 631–660. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173834
Steinmetz, Katy. “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Time, 29 May 2014, time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/.
“Trans Panic Defense” Legislation in the United States
Map of US State Legislation (The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association (United States)) https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/advocacy-resources/advocacy/gay-trans-panic-defense/gay-trans-panic-defense-legislation/