Riki Wilchins

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Riki Anne Wilchins (* 1952 ) comes from the United States of America and works as an activist and journalist on transgender issues. Wilchins was involved in the establishment of the Transexual Menace Action Group (1993) and the civil rights organization Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC: 1995–2009).

Life

Wilchins studied clinical psychology at the New School for Social Research and writes columns on gender issues in the oldest US LGBT magazine The Advocate .

In 1997 Wilchins' autobiography Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender was published (in German, for example: "Read it from my lips: Sexual infiltration and the end of the gender division").

In 2001 Wilchins was listed by Time magazine among the 100 Civic Innovators of the 21st Century ("100 civil innovators of the 21st century").

In 2002 Wilchins contributed to the publication of the article collection GenderQueer: Voices from beyond the Sexual Binary , which drew public attention to non-binary gender identities .

In 2004 Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer , a synthesis of queer theory and gender studies , was published, which was translated into German in 2006 ( Gender Theory: An introduction in the Querverlag ).

In 2019 the book Gender Norms and Intersectionality: Connecting Race, Class and Gender was published , in which Wilchins argued against the gender order with its discriminatory gender roles and against heteronormative sexual ideas.

Private life

In 1997, Wilchins described one's own gender identity as genderqueer (a non-binary gender identity). Wilchins first used this designation in 1995 in the newsletter In Your Face to distinguish it from the pressure to define either a female or a male gender role. Below Wilchins often spoke of "us Gender Queer" and sat activist for non-binary and transgender -Geschlechtsidentitäten one.

In 2001, Time magazine described Wilchins as saying, “Wilchins, who began life as a boy 49 years ago, became a trans woman in the 1970s. But today she refuses to identify with either sex. " The interviewer refused to comply with Wilchin's request for the gender-neutral pronoun" s / he " :" Sorry Riki, but 's / he' is not yet a word of its own " .

Works

Books:

  • Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion & the End of Gender. Firebrand Books, Ithica 1997, ISBN 1-56341-090-7 .
  • as editor, with Joan Nestle and Clare Howell: GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary. Alyson Books, Los Angeles 2002, ISBN 1-55583-730-1 .
  • Queer Theory / Gender Theory: an Instant Primer , Alyson Books, Los Angeles 2004, ISBN 1-55583-798-0 .
    • German: Gender Theory: An Introduction. Querverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-89656-130-5 (translated by Julia Roth).
  • TRANS / gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media & Congress… and Won! , Riverdale Avenue Books, Riverdale NY 2017, ISBN 1-62601-368-3 .
  • Burn the binary! Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer and Nonbinary. Riverdale Avenue Books, Riverdale NY 2017, ISBN 1-62601-407-8 (collection of articles; Extract in the Google Book Search).
  • Gender Norms and Intersectionality: Connecting Race, Class and Gender. Rowman & Littlefield, London a. a. 2019, ISBN 978-1-78661-083-6 .

Items:

  • Eighteen Things You Don't Say to a Transsexual: A Light-Hearted Look at Prejudicial Comments Borne of Ignorance. In: Polar Magazines. No. 23, April 1998 (The Gender Center, Australia; PDF: 443 kB, 3 pages ).
  • Only a Cross Dresser: Awaiting the Rise of the Truly Revolutionary Force. In: Polar Magazines. No. 58, July 2004 (The Gender Center, Australia; PDF: 439 kB, 3 pages ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article overview: Riki Wilchins. In: Advocate.com . Accessed January 20, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ A b John Cloud: Gender Rights - Community Activism: Helping Men, Women, Etc. In: Time magazine . June 18, 2001, accessed on January 20, 2020 (English; outline legible behind a paywall); Quote: “'What pronoun will you use for me? I prefer s / he. ' Wilchins, who started life as a boy 49 years ago, became a transsexual woman in the '70s. But today she (sorry, Riki - 's / he' isn't a word yet) refuses to identify with either gender. ".
  3. ↑ Riki Wilchins: In Your Face! No. 1, New York, Spring 1995, p. 4 (English; PDF: 247 kB, 4 pages on digitaltransgenderarchive.net ); Quote: "[...] But maybe we genderqueers feel it most keenly, because it hits us each time we walk out the front door openly and proudly."
  4. ^ Marilyn Roxie: Genderqueer History. In: GenderQueerID.com. December 4, 2011, accessed January 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wilchins, Riki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilchins, Riki Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952