ABSTRACT
Transfeminism’s special contribution to the third wave is its insistence that a specifically transfeminist subject be included within feminism, and its demand for accountability regarding the changes that this insistence brings to feminist thinking and organizing. Transfeminism aims to counter the homogeneity of the white, straight, and abstract subject of feminism. Transfeminism in Spain resists such feminist practices of exclusion and objectification by appropriating the term feminism itself, and by using the prefix trans- to signify a feminist trans subject or identity. The trans- prefix is also meant to signal the process of crossing over or moving through the current impasses of feminist thought, rather than calling for “post-” feminism, as if there were no longer a need for feminist activism or analysis. In contrast to the Anglo queer constellation of the 1990s, transfeminism offers a new admixture of perspectives: a blend of Foucaldian biopolitics and feminist materialism rooted in the resurgence of Marxism.
