Cat Fitzpatrick

Catherine Fitzpatrick teaches at Rutgers University- Newark, co-ordinates the Trans Poets Workshop (transpoets.com) and is an editor at Topside Press (topsidepress.com), where her next project is editing the first ever anthology of speculative fiction by transgender writers. You can read her work in venues including Adrienne, Asylum and The Advocate, or on her website, catfitzpatrick.net.

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By Cat Fitzpatrick • 8 years ago

Trans Activists, Don’t Throw Mad People Under The Bus!

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site.

This article was written in collaboration with mad pride activist and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Jijian Voronka.

Recently, the Canadian Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto shut down its Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), fired its head, the prestigious and highly controversial Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and removed him from his post as Psychologist-in-Chief of CAMH.

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By Cat Fitzpatrick • 9 years ago

Feministing Reads: “Sex Is A Funny Word” and the aesthetics of inclusivity

This article was originally published on the Community site. 

Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s new book, Sex Is A Funny Word (Seven Stories Press, 160pp, $17.96) is billed as a step forward in inclusivity in sex education for children.

This article was originally published on the Community site. 

Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s new book, Sex Is A Funny Word (Seven Stories Press, 160pp, $17.96) is billed as a step forward in inclusivity in sex education for ...