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Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Miranda Yardley is a magazine publisher, business owner and transwoman.
Miranda is known for challenging and debating the political ideas which underpin transgender activism and is an advocate for respect by trans people of women’s spaces, organisations and movements, as well as free speech, the value of dialogue and debate as well the importance of hard facts and hard truths.
Miranda has consistently spoken out against the abuse, silencing, sexism and misogyny that has been a constant in transgender activism by both activists and their allies. Miranda believes that trans people should be positioning themselves as allies to women, and that the current transgender political movement succeeds only in oppressing women further through the decentering of women in feminism and the pathologising of women themselves, instead of addressing cultural male violence and misogyny.
Miranda has also been invited to appear on BBC television’s ‘Newsnight’ where a discussion with Paris Lees and Fred McConnell was pulled after Lees and McConnell refused to debate with Miranda. She has written about this experience in political magazine The New Statesman, and also writes on trans issues for The Morning Star newspaper.
Miranda believes that activism can and should be positive, and has worked with RadFem Collective in the UK to bring radical feminists, feminists and other women together to be able to debate openly and respectfully.
Miranda is known for challenging and debating the political ideas which underpin transgender activism and is an advocate for respect by trans people of women’s spaces, organisations and movements, as well as free speech, the value of dialogue and debate as well the importance of hard facts and hard truths.
Miranda has consistently spoken out against the abuse, silencing, sexism and misogyny that has been a constant in transgender activism by both activists and their allies. Miranda believes that trans people should be positioning themselves as allies to women, and that the current transgender political movement succeeds only in oppressing women further through the decentering of women in feminism and the pathologising of women themselves, instead of addressing cultural male violence and misogyny.
Miranda has also been invited to appear on BBC television’s ‘Newsnight’ where a discussion with Paris Lees and Fred McConnell was pulled after Lees and McConnell refused to debate with Miranda. She has written about this experience in political magazine The New Statesman, and also writes on trans issues for The Morning Star newspaper.
Miranda believes that activism can and should be positive, and has worked with RadFem Collective in the UK to bring radical feminists, feminists and other women together to be able to debate openly and respectfully.
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ABOUT MIRANDA YARDLEY
