Sister Outrider

The award-winning blog of Claire Heuchan

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Women’s Rights

1. Sisterhood and Shortbread: Meghan Murphy at the Scottish Parliament
2. Lessons from Canada: On Women’s Libraries and Liberation
3. Ending Demand: The Sisterhood vs The Sex Industry
4. Open Letter to Edinburgh Rape Crisis Staff and Trustees

Black Studies & Radical Learning

1. On Race, Place, and Headspace
2. #SpaceWoC: Women of Colour Against the Sex Trade
3. Bending the Revolution & Claiming Lesbian Feminist Politics

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Dispatches from the Margins – A Series 

1. On Feminist Movement Building
2. Depression & Digital Detox
3. On Women, Race, and Class
4. Lesbian Connection & the Lavender Menace
5. Disposable Women

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Sex, Gender, and Sexuality – A Series

1. Sex, Gender, and the New Essentialism
2. Lezbehonest About Queer Politics Erasing Lesbian Women
3. The Problem That Has No Name Because Woman is too Essentialist
4. The Vanishing Point: A Reflection Upon Lesbian Erasure
5. Binary or Spectrum, Gender is a Hierarchy
6. ‘Punch a TERF’ Rhetoric Encourages Violence Against Women
7. Womanhood: On Sex, Gender Roles, and Self-Identification
8. On the Same Page: Some Thoughts on Gender & Sexuality
9. Keeping Faith: Towards a More Compassionate Gender Discourse

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Race and the Feminist Movement  – A Series 

1. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Racism in the Feminism Movement
2. The Outsider Within: Racism in the Feminism Movement
3. Ain’t I a Woman? Racism in the Feminism Movement
4. For the White Woman Who Wants to Know How to be My Friend: A Black Feminist Guide to Interracial Solidarity
5. When White Women Close Ranks: On Racism in the Feminist Movement

• 5 Books for White Women to Read About Race and Feminism

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Black Feminism

• Dear Shappi: An Open Letter On the Jhalak Prize
• Self-Care or Speaking Out? A Black Feminist Dilemma
• Intersectionality: A Definition, History, and Guide
• White People Critiquing White Feminism Perpetuate White Privilege

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Lesbian Feminism

• Dear Roxane – An Open Letter on Queer Feminism & Lesbophobia

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Black Feminist Travel Writing

• Young Feminist Summer School – AGORA ’16
• Loud and United – Reflections of a Black Feminist on the Road
• Race, Place, and Feminist Space

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Sisterhood

• Grasping Things at the Root: On Young Women and Radical Feminism
• In Praise of Older Women: A Love Letter to My Big Sisters

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Talks & Speeches

• Interracial Solidarity in the Feminist Movement – #FiLiA2017
• Why I Reclaim the Night: Being a Black Woman in Public Space
• Race, History, and Brexit: Black Scottish Identity
• BBC Woman’s Hour (2016)
• Writing as a Feminist (Women, Media, Politics – 2016)
• Online Misogyny (Feminism in London – 2015)

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Translations

French

Sexe, genre, et sexualité

1. Le sexe, le genre, et le nouvel essentialisme
2. Lezbehonest (Parlons franchement) à propos de l’effacement des femmes lesbiennes par la politique queer
3. Le problème qui n’a pas de nom… parce que le mot « femme » est qualifié d’essentialiste
4. À propos de notre disparition: réflexions sur l’effacement des lesbiennes
5. Qu’on le voie comme binaire ou comme un spectre, le genre demeure une hiérarchie

Feminisme radical

• Prendre les problèmes à la racine : à propos des jeunes femmes et du féminisme radical
• Aux femmes blanches qui veulent être mon amie : guide féministe Noir de solidarité interraciale

Spanish

Sexo, género y sexualidad

1. Sexo, Género y el Nuevo Esencialismo
2. Seamos Honestas Sobre Cómo Las Políticas Queer Excluyen a las Mujeres Lesbianas
3. El Problema que No Tiene Nombre porque “Mujer” es Demasiado Esencialista

Portuguese

• Pessoas brancas criticando “Feminismo Branco” perpetuam privilégio branco
• A Questão do Desaparecimento – Uma Reflexão Sobre o Apagamento da Lesbianidade
• Seu silêncio não te protegerá: o racismo no movimento feminista

German

• Weiße Menschen, die “Weißen Feminismus” kritisieren, halten weißes Privileg aufrecht

Dutch

• Binair of een spectrum, gender is een hierarchie