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Praise for Transgender Marxism * : * Vibrant and much needed -- Shon Faye, author of <i>The Transgender Issue</i> I couldn't put it down -- Kathi Weeks, author of <i>The Problem with Work</i> Stunning -- Jules Gill-Peterson, author of <i>Histories of the Transgender Child</i> Brilliant, thoughtfully researched, and compelling. An Immense contribution to the trans liberation struggle and to trans studies scholarship. -- Dean Spade, author of <i>Mutual Aid</i>

As someone with a ringside seat to the emergence of intersex activism in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990s--the in-your-face Hermaphrodites With Attitude newsletter was edited by members of my collective household--I'm thrilled to see this short, sharp history of a now-international movement. Gleeson's critical perspective make a welcome contribution at a time when much of intersex discourse no longer politically challenges medical power. -- Susan Stryker, author of <i>Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution</i> Hermaphrodite Logic celebrates the history of intersex liberation as a political movement that creates a new ethics of living with the variety of sex. Emerging in the 1990s, Juliana Gleeson traces how this movement countered the scars of medical intervention imposed on the intersex with wit and logic. The result is a moving and sardonic account that speaks of the intersex with a chorus of voices, rupturing the limits of our normative conceptions of gender and sexuality. -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester Juliana Gleeson has long operated at the forefront of contemporary sex-liberationist thought and the cutting edge of a Marxism against cisness. In this moving tribute to intersex liberation, she demonstrates exactly why and how the oppression of so-called hermaphrodites illuminates the whole edifice of sexed unfreedom for everyone, while their collective struggle and reason - albeit often shamefully neglected on the left - shows us the only real way out. Especially in this time when powerful cissexist actors are seeking (as it were) to make sexuation great again, Hermaphrodite Logic is exactly what antifascists need: an eminently usable ensemble of political theory and strategy grounded in historical counter-reality. -- Sophie Lewis, author of <i>Abolish the Family</i>

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Jules Joanne Gleeson is a writer, comedian and historian. She has published essays in outlets including Viewpoint Magazine, Invert Journal and VICE, and performed internationally at a wide range of communist and queer cultural events. She is the co-editor of Transgender Marxism.

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