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Mar 15, 2017 · Adichie, who is also an LGBTQ-rights advocate in Nigeria, has since apologized and tried to clarify what she meant. She said that while trans women face tremendous oppression and must be...
Aug 10, 2020 · In March of 2017, best-selling Nigerian author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in an interview with Britain’s Channel 4, was asked whether being a trans woman makes one any less of a ‘real woman?’.
- B Camminga
- 2020
- The Cancel Culture Narrative
- How Transphobia Manifests Online—And in The Literary World
- Misperceptions of Trans Rights Globally
Adichie’s essay opened by detailing what she describes as problematic interactions with participants at a writing workshop she hosted in Lagos, Nigeria several years ago—she writes of feeling taken advantage of, and of being “insulted” by their public criticism on social media of her 2017 interview. In a specific example, Adichie said she later rec...
Cancel culture is not applied equally—with damaging sentiments often being made about trans people, specifically, under the guise of debates over free speech. (In the literary world, for example, prominent authors like J.K. Rowlinghave addressed controversies surrounding their transphobic remarks as issues of free speech and pertaining to cisgender...
As they continue to be the subjects of “cancel culture” debates, trans people’s rights and identity continue to be misperceived. Bey says that a widespread misunderstanding is that being trans means being born as a man or a woman and then becoming the “opposite” gender, when for many trans people the situation—and their identity—is far more nuanced...
- Annabel Gutterman
Jun 18, 2021 · Since 2017, Adichie has drawn criticism from trans activists for seeming to embrace rhetoric championed by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), who argue that trans women are not women...
- Aja Romano
Jun 16, 2021 · In this recent essay, Adichie has once again addressed accusations of transphobia, specifically from two unnamed writers who she’d worked with. In the first part of the essay — in which she again reiterates that “a trans woman is a trans woman” — Adichie details her relationship with a young female writer who she mentored and housed ...
- Mia Mercado
- Contributor
Jun 17, 2021 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — author of such books as Americanah and Half a Yellow Sun, and a celebrated feminist who has been sampled by Beyoncé — has accused a younger writer who was once her...
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Jun 16, 2021 · Feminist author Adichie this week published a three-part essay, in which she discussed, among other things, the backlash she'd received for her comments on trans women.
