Hi everyone. At the request of a reader, this post (made 4/5/2019) has been recovered (on 9/30/2020) from a now thankfully banned debate subreddit. I'm no great fan of my thinking from this period, but it's a healthy biographical marker in that it was the last time I ever tried to commune in good faith with women who hate me for being trans. The main point about queer theory sharing much of its thought with radical feminist theory remains compelling. The comments which were also lost were pretty much all cruel, hostile, and abusive, but if you know what you are doing you can recover them using RedditSearch.
Hello everyone. Effortpost incoming. I do not usually post here but have considered starting.
After reading this post and its comments, it is clear to me that most users on this forum do not know what queer theory is. So this is an introduction to queer theory. I am covering basic concepts: use of language, beliefs about identity, and relationship to radical feminism. I am writing this to clear up what I believe are obvious misconceptions both trans-accepting and trans-denialist people seem to have, and to serve as a masterpost link to others making misstatements about queer theory in the future.
I am a queer feminist. More relevant to this forum, I am transgender. I have read feminist theory and queer theory since I was a teenager. I am a queer advocate and a woman advocate. I say this is to make clear that I am partisan. However, I hope this is well-cited enough that all parties find it helpful. I have tried to speak as simply as possible.

What Is Queer Theory?

In this primer, I will repeatedly stress the following analogy: queer theory is to sex-gender nonconformity as feminist theory is to women. I say "sex-gender nonconformity" to express the full breadth of queer theory, which can range from intersex writers (Iain Moorland, Morgan Holmes), to studies in something as seemingly superficial as drag (The Drag King Book, Judith Butler), to racial intersections (Mia McKenzie, Tourmaline) & Che Gossett) and postcolonial third genders (Qwo-Li Driskill).
Like feminist theory, queer theory is not one thing. It is a collection of diverse approaches to explaining the condition of sex-gender nonconformity in society, and, in the case of radical queers, improving that condition towards the radical end goal of the abolition of all sex-gender norms. Like feminist theory, queer theory is theory. Not all feminism is feminist theory. Not all queer advocacy is queer theory. Queer studies is not queer theory. Queer history is not queer theory. Queer praxis is not queer theory. Being queer is not queer theory.

Queer Theory & Language

Not all people who practice sex-gender nonconformity consider themselves queer. In fact, some consider the word exclusionary or pejorative. This is no more exceptional than the fact that some women do not consider themselves feminists, and consider the word exclusionary or pejorative.
Just as some black women reject feminism as being white (Clenora Hudson-Weems), some black sex-gender nonconformers reject queerness as being white (Cleo Manago). And just as some women reject feminist theory as harmful to society (Esther Vilar), some sex-gender nonconforming people reject queer theory as harmful to society (Sheila Jeffreys).
This problem, in which the purported subjects of a theory actively reject it, and even their positions as subjects within it, is no more destructive for queer advocacy than it is for feminism. The challenge has been answered affirmationally in various ways in both queer theory and feminist theory (MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, pgs. 115-117; Dworkin, Right Wing Women; Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto; Stone, A Posttranssexual Manifesto).
However, because much more of queer theory takes its subject's status as queer to be uncontroversially entirely socially constructed, and its use of language to be therefore open to social change, queer theorists encounter this problem less often than feminist theorists. We usually acknowledge that, in forcing people to be queer or not queer, we are passively reinforcing the exact forms of oppression we seek to end through our analyses. Leslie Feinberg, who did not use the word queer as a political identity, noted in hir Transgender Liberation (1992):

Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions. The language used in this pamphlet may quickly become outdated as the gender community coalesces and organizes—a wonderful problem.

Today, Feinberg's "transgender[ed] people" is now most often used apolitically, for what was once called "transgenderists": the demographic of those who live or attempt to live, socially, as a sex-gender outside of that first placed on their birth certificate. "Queer" has come to have most of the solidarity-driven political meaning of Feinberg's "transgender." However, Feinberg's conception of "transgender" is not uncommon today.
Insofar as queer advocacy permits its subjects to change, establishing their own voice, own vocabulary, own concerns, and own dissent, while feminism does not, the two must be antagonistic. Riki Wilchins addresses this tension directly in hir essay "Deconstructing Trans":

Genderqueerness would seem to be a natural avenue for feminism to contest Woman's equation with nurturance, femininity, and reproduction: in short to trouble the project of Man. Yet feminists have been loath to take that avenue, in no small part because queering Woman threatens the very category on which feminism depends.

However, Wilchins is wrong: this tension between feminist theory and queer theory is local to specific versions of queer advocacy and feminism, and is not inherent to either.

Queer Theory & Gender Identity

What the hecky, y'all? Queer theory rejects gender identity politics almost unconditionally. Get it right.
There are very few things queer theorists universally agree on: this is one. In fact, queer theorists reject sexual identity politics almost unconditionally (e.g. Rosemary Hennessy, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism). Queer theorists regularly assert that all identity formation (including identity formation as a man or woman, flat) and even the very concept of selfhood emerge as a regulatory apparatus of power, usually that of The State. These critiques in queer theory are developed out of postmodern critiques of identity and the self. Consider, for example, these quotes from Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus:

To write is perhaps to bring this assemblage of the unconscious to the light of day, to select the whispering voices, to gather the tribes and secret idioms from which I extract something I call my Self (Moi). I is an order-word.
Where psychoanalysis says, "Stop, find your self again," we should say instead, "Let's go further still, we haven't found our BwO yet, we haven't sufficiently dismantled our self." Substitute forgetting for anamnesis, experimentation for interpretation. Find your body without organs. Find out how to make it.
There is no longer a Self (Moi) that feels, acts, and recalls; there is "a glowing fog, a dark yellow mist" that has affects and experiences movements, speeds.

This denial of self is directly tied to Deleuze's concept of becoming-minority), and is constructed again and again and again in queer theoretic concepts: in anti-sociality, in death drive, in anal sublimation and butch abjection, just over and over and over again. Anyone who does not understand this general concept does not understand a single thing about queer theory, straight up.
Among the transgender population specifically, it is extremely easy to find transgender people rejecting the concept of gender identity as something forced upon us by a cisgender establishment which has all the power. It's easy to find on writing. It's easy to find on video. It's easy to find on reddit. And most of us aren't even queer theorists.
So, what is it queer theorists do, if not snort identity for breakfast? Well, generally, we sort through history, literature, science, language, the social psyche, most especially real-life experience, and whatever else we can ooze our brainjuices over to analyze and undo the structures of our oppression, the very means through which we become "queer." We argue that this oppression and our position as uniquely oppressed subjects within it is socially constructed, unnecessary, and morally outrageous. And, on most analyses, this is what many feminist theorists do with women, as well. Few have even argued that, in a culture that constructs manhood as its norm, there is a sense in which to be a "woman" is also to be "queer."

Queer Theory & Radical Feminism

It has never been clear what radical feminism is. In general, I understand people who call themselves or are called "radical feminists" to be one of the following:

• Socialist feminists, who assert women are a class in some previously understood, usually Marxist sense, who must achieve liberation through techniques espoused in pre-existing theory, e.g. wages for housework.
• Post-Marxist feminists, who assert women are a "sex-class," where "class" is some new, peculiarly feminist sense of the word, who must achieve liberation through some specifically feminist method yet to be decided, outside of Marxist, anarchist, or liberal methodologies. Its origins are often supposed to be Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex. Post-Marxist radical feminism is usually considered "true" radical feminism, or even just feminism, proper (MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, pg. 117).
• Cultural feminists, who assert "man" and "woman" compose two competing cultures, and (more importantly) "feminism" as women's culture. Under this view, there can be no end to feminism because women cannot achieve equality, only the dominance of female culture. Men cannot be feminists because feminism is not a political position. Cultural feminists are ambivalent about their positioning on a left or right which are both seen as "male culture." Cultural feminists often call for a return to "the natural order," and approve of "biologism," the belief that one's cultural categorization is and should be derived from biology. Their purpose is to preserve women as feminists rather than achieve the radical goal which is the abolition of all classes. See Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology; Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto; Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born. Not all cultural feminists claim to be radical (or cultural); see écriture féminine.

On cultural feminism, radical feminist historian Alice Echols noted in The Taming of the Id (1984):

I believe that what we have come to identify as radical feminism represents such a fundamental departure from its radical feminist roots that it requires renaming.

Brooke Williams's Redstocking's piece The Retreat to Cultural Feminism (1975) begins:

Many women feel that the women’s movement is currently at an impasse. This paper takes the position that this is due to a deradicalizing and distortion of feminism which has resulted in, among other things,"cultural feminism.”

Inasmuch as cultural feminism asserts "man" and "woman" as essential and non-relative social categories in need of preservation, queer theory can have no truck with radical feminism, because radical feminism maintains a cultural institution which is usually seen as a major genesis of queer oppression.
However, insofar as radical feminism is post-Marxist, it is often deeply aligned with queer theory. Queer theory is also usually post-Marxist, as postmodernism was developed partly in response to the failures of Marxism. Queer advocacy often adopts radical feminist methodology, particularly consciousness raising. Many radical feminists effectively advocate queerness, in what Andrea Dworkin calls a "political, ideological, and strategic confrontation with the sex-class system," as a necessary part of feminism. Please consider what radical feminists and queer advocates have historically said about the following topics common to both:

Family Reform:
RadFem: "So paternal right replaces maternal right: transmission of property is from father to son and no longer from woman to her clan. This is the advent of the patriarchal family founded on private property. In such a family woman is oppressed." (De Beauvoir, Second Sex) "Patching up with band-aids the casualties of the aborted feminist revolution, it [Freudianism] succeeded in quieting the immense social unrest and role confusion that followed in the wake of the first attack on the rigid patriarchal family." (Shulamith Firestone, Dialectic of Sex, pg. 70).
Queer: "The family has become the locus of retention and resonance of all the social determinations. It falls to the reactionary investment of the capitalist field to apply all the social images to the simulcra of the restricted family, with the result that, wherever one turns, one no longer finds anything but father-mother - this Oedipal filth that sticks to our skin." (Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, pg. 269)
Pansexuality:
RadFem: "[Through feminist revolution] A reversion to an unobstructed pansexuality - Freud's 'polymorphous perversity' - would probably supersede hetero/homo/bi-sexuality." (Firestone, Dialectic of Sex, pg. 11)
Queer: "When queerness began to mean little more than 'pansexual activist', Bash Back! became a liberal social scene rather than a space from which to attack, which i think had been the whole point of bashing back all along." (Interview with Not Yr Cister Press, Queer Ultraviolence: Bash Back! Anthology, pg. 385)
Degendered Gestation:
RadFem: "Scientific advances which threaten to further weaken or sever altogether the connection between sex and reproduction have scarcely been realized culturally. That the scientific revolution has had virtually no effect on feminism only illustrates the political nature of the problem: the goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution." (Firestone, Dialectic of Sex, pg. 31)
Queer: "The gender of gestating is ambiguous. I am not talking about pregnancy’s deepening of one’s voice, its carpeting of one’s legs in bristly hair, or even about the ancient Greek belief that it was an analogue of men’s duty to die in battle if called upon. I am not even thinking of the heterogeneity of those who gestate. Rather, in a context where political economists are talking constantly of “the feminization of labor,” it seems to me that the economic gendering of the work itself—gestating is work, as Merve Emre says—is not as clear-cut as it would appear." (Sophie Lewis, All Reproduction is Assisted)
Institutional Debinarization:
RadFem: "[A]ll forms of sexual interaction which are directly rooted in the multisexual nature of people must be part of the fabric of human life, accepted into the lexicon of human possibility, integrated into the forms of human community. By redefining human sexuality, or by defining it correctly, we can transform human relation­ship and the institutions which seek to control that rela­tionship. Sex as the power dynamic between men and women, its primary form sadomasochism, is what we know now. Sex as community between humans, our shared humanity, is the world we must build." (Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating, pg. 183)
Queer: "'Boy' and 'girl' do not tell the genital truth that Zippora knows. Quite the opposite: instead of describing her baby’s sex, these words socially enact the sex they name... Intersexuality robs 'boy' and 'girl' of referents, but it is unclear how far this intersexed scenario differs from any other gendered encounter... I suggest the claim that sex is performative must operate constatively in order to be politically effective. One has to say that performativity is the real, scientiŽc truth of sex in order to argue that intersex surgery, which claims to treat sex as a constative, is futile constructivism." (Iain Morland, Is Intersexuality Real?)

I hope these few quotations are enough to demonstrate that queer theory and radical feminist theory are deeply interwoven, and the former is in many ways a continuation of the latter.
I have noticed debate here seems quite one-sided, but I think that I could contribute something to fix what I see as a pretty egregious misrepresentation issue. I know this primer wasn't exactly structured for debate, but I can try to answer any questions below. If you read this all, thanks!

https://donotlink.it/bmV7

Claire is an example of what has been called “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” and Singal’s examination of this problem made him a target for online activists. Bestselling feminist author Roxane Gay called Singal’s article a “travesty” and asserted that the article should have been “vetted” by transgender advocates. What this was, of course, was an endorsement of censorship, and Meghan Murphy — a radical feminist critic of transgenderism — was having none of it.

So fact checking a made up condition is censorship? Going against a narrative is not a good in of itself and being called out on bad writing is not censorship. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit Also your made up condition is made up: https://letsqueerthingsup.com/2018/09/13/my-parents-and-i-survived-my-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-this-is-our-story/ https://medium.com/@juliaserano/everything-you-need-to-know-about-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-1940b8afdeba

Jesse Singal is a journalist whose “progressive” credentials were never questioned until he wrote a cover story in The Atlantic about the growing phenomenon of “gender transition” for children. The article begins by focusing on a girl who “desisted” — Claire, who at age 12 began binge-watching YouTube transition videos, became convinced that she was transgender, but has since changed her mind

Except their real names aren’t revealed in this article. That is a red flag!

After all, if Corey Dale Ehmke can declare himself to be a woman named “Coraline Ada” Ehmke, and thus allow an employer to fill a quota of females for the purposes of “diversity,” this will leave actual women with a smaller slice of the affirmative-action pie. In Mexico, which has imposed quotas for female office-holders, it was recently discovered that 17 male candidates had falsely claimed to be transgender “women.”

And the fact that they were caught proves you right? It doesn’t work then!

The online Pied Pipers of transgenderism like Amanda “Miles” McKenna consider their advocacy of “transition” an expression of the progressive feminist claim that the gender binary is socially constructed by the heterosexual matrix (to summarize Judith Butler’s influential 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity). Because there are no natural differences between men and women, according to this theory, and because heterosexuality is a system of oppression imposed by patriarchy, there is no reason why Amanda McKenna shouldn’t inject herself with testosterone, have her breasts amputated and thereby reject her (socially constructed) female identity. “This is not what we wanted!” the radical feminists scream, yet the logic of their own theory says that “Miles” McKenna is the same as any male, just as “Zinnia Jones” must be equal to any woman. Why should mere biology be allowed to obstruct the practical results of their theory?

Do you even know how biology works? http://brainblogger.com/2015/05/14/homosexuality-in-the-brain/ https://medium.com/@juliaserano/transgender-people-and-biological-sex-myths-c2a9bcdb4f4a

When “Char Vortryss” and his/“her” transgender comrades threaten violence against their feminists critics, do feminists expect their progressive “male allies” to defend them, and if so, why? When teenagers insist on their “right” to hormones and surgery, does anyone expect progressives to say “no”?

Well you think the threats are real: https://medium.com/@notCursedE/die-cis-scum-5210313db6d4
So yeah you are an idiot.

Because I share Ms. Murphy’s concerns about the transgender agenda, this makes us de facto allies in the cause of liberty. I do not believe that the transgender cult can withstand public scrutiny, if people are adequately informed of the facts. Men and women are different, these differences are not imaginary, nor are they insignificant, and they cannot be wished away by saying they are “socially constructed.” That’s not feminism. That’s simply the truth.

Not really: https://medium.com/@yonatanzungeso-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788 https://medium.com/@tweetingmouse/the-truth-has-got-its-boots-on-what-the-evidence-says-about-mr-damores-google-memo-bc93c8b2fdb9

Isn’t it true that so-called “mainstream” journalism has been captured by “social justice warriors” (SJWs) like Jesse Singal, who helped smear #GamerGate? Didn’t Donald Trump get elected president in large measure because he was willing to call out the “fake news” media?

Um that shouldn’t make him right. https://amp.dailydot.com/irl/jesse-singal-trans-children/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/transgender-children-desistance-a5caf61fc5c6/amp/
https://donotlink.it/REV9 Okay they use the word “normal” as “shouldn’t deviate from” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/philosophy/comments/24kqoe/is_the_appeal_to_normality_fallacious_in_ethics/ In addition to being anti contraceptive: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/upshot/birth-control-causes-depression-not-so-fast.html

UNLOCKED! Now open for commenting! There were a few things that eluded my Google-fu, so if you have a great resource, please post it in the comments, too. I may continue to edit if other subreddits get back to me (I'm still waiting on LGTB and Latino subreddits), so continue to check back. After about a month, I will probably unsticky this and place it in the FAQs so it'll be available to reference.

Hello, FemmeThoughts family!
This post is an evolving list of resources for Intersectional Feminists who are looking for concrete ways to support one another in a Trump administration. As of this moment, the plan is to create a launch-pad for entry-level support and will avoid any affiliation with American political parties. If interests, events and resources permit, I would be willing to build on these to include assertive political action. At the moment, this is a working document, so check back frequently!
Below are some common concerns about a Trump administration negatively affecting American communities, a quote from Trump illustrating the validity of their concern, and some links to resources people can reference to support said community.
First, a primer on how to confront all kinds of everyday bigotry
Trump is a Misogynist

"She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina."

Since his offenses to women are too numerous to account for just one quote, I've linked to an article detailing the many horrible things Trump has said about women to demonstrate that he is no ally to women, gender equality or the things that matter to feminists.
Since feminism is the focus of the /FemmeThoughts family, this will be the biggest section as I take everything he has said about his policy and it's affect on women one by one (it's a lot, so bear with me until it's done!)
First, if you live in a small community (I do), you may not have all the different organizations and resources urban areas do and it may be too difficult for you to travel to these cities. The YWCA has 220 local members and has a wide range of feminist issues they support. So, if for example, your community does not have a BLM chapter, the YWCA's mission is eliminating racism and could be a good place for you to start.
Update 2/13/17, I know many people may have problems with the philosophy and origins of the Women's March, but they do have some good ideas for activism and resistance. Here is the main page for their website. I, personally, am cribbing their postcard script for my postcards to my representatives.
Women's Health
How to get involved, from NARAL
A plug to donate money (I want those playing cards!)
Update yourself on Planned Parenthood's platform to get informed
What Planned Parenthood needs
Get Involved with Planned Parenthood communities
Victims of Sexual Violence
Go on the RAINN website to learn more. Sign the petition.
Volunteer
Women in the Military
Read about the Military Justice Improvement Act and take the recommended actions to get it passed.
Women in Government
Poke around Emily's List
Breastfeeding
Know the laws
Convince new allies
Sexual Harrassment
How to confront sexual Harrassers and other resources
Workplace Sexism
A few tips
Domestic Violence
Contact a local domestic violence shelter near you and ask how you can help
Trump is Racist
Asian People

"They say, 'We want deal!'"

These are sourced from communications with a few of /AsianAmerican mods.

• Do not equate Asians with Asian-Americans; politics and conflicts tend to be left behind in the second-generation. Also, stop trying to "guess" an Asian-American's cultural origin.
  
• Asians are not -nor do they want to be- honorary white people. They have their own culture and struggles that put them at odds with white oppression just as any other culture.
  
• In that vein, stop exotizing Asian culture. The West has othered the East in a peculiar way, not at all in the same manner they've othered the Africas or the Americas. (Read Orientalism from reading list below.)
  
• And, simply enjoying Asian culture does not make you an ally of Asians. Having an Asian wife makes you no less racist than enjoying sex with women automatically makes you less misogynist.
  

Black People

"I think the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control."

Volunteer
How to contact your local chapter of Black Lives Matter to see what support they would like.
On being an ally to a black person confronted with racism
On getting involved at the municipal level to end police brutality. Even if --especially if-- your town is small and/or seemingly liberal, it is vital you get involved; there are fewer citizens to work for change and likely a much smaller and less-visible black community.
One way to record and report police brutality
What to say if police tell you to stop recording them
Jewish People

"And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."

Reporting Anti-Semitic Incidents
On Activism
Confronting Anti-Semitism I did not read the whole thing. Could someone please read it and make sure there's nothing odd in it?
Latinos

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

Contact a National Council of El Raza affiliate near you - explore the site for other ways to help, like issues that matter to the organization.
Muslims

"There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down."

When you are witnessing Islamaphobia harassment
On wearing the hijab in solidarity
On wearing the kufi in solidarity
On combating false information
On how to show support to your Muslim-American community. Asked by a college student, but the ideas are still good, even for off-campus communities.
American Indian

"I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations."

Being an ally to American Indians. Note that alliance does not garner you entry into aspects of their culture; support should not require an in-kind exchange.
Support No-DAPL and keep an eye out for other ways in which the American Government undermines Tribal sovereignty.
In a similar vein, get involved advocating for climate change and conservation; taking care of our Earth is a major focus of many Indian Tribes.
Search for a Tribe near you to ask what they need Please note many Tribes may not want any outside assistance. Respect that.
A discussion in /IndianCountry about what support American Indians want
Know that American Indians have enough to work on and, as a rule, do not want to get pulled into politics that don't concern them.
Trump is homophobic

America is “going to hell” because the NFL defended openly gay player Michael Sam.

Trump is ablist

Trump mocked a disabled reporter and called a deaf woman the "R-word."
And, for all our own Priveledge Check, an excellent article warning us away from equating Trump's behavior with mental disabilities. Credit Adahn

American Association of People with Disabilities Get Involved page.
An Ablist Priveledge Checklist
Trump is not an ally of transgendered people

While he's since walked it back, a week ago, Trump was going to sabotage Obama's Title IX extensions to transgendered people using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

Resources for transgender people and allies
Trump is a climate-change denier
Personal steps to take
Get involved at the state level
How to be a politically involved citizen
Read first, an excellent essay on a Theory of Citzen Involvement. You have to understand how a government wants your participation to know how to be effective when you get involved.
Also recommended from bellebrita is Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda here.
Recommended from Libralily: http://whatdoidoabouttrump.com
Compiled from various online sources:

• look for information in newspapers, magazines, and reference materials and judging its accuracy - a good citizen is an informed citizen
  
• find out when your municipality has its council meetings and attend - understand what is going on in your own community to better understand your neighbors
  
• participate in political discussion - once you are introduced to the facts, start asking questions. Demand clarity and transparency.
  
• wear a button or putting a sticker on the car - seems a little silly, but public presence and visibility is what is necessary.
  
• sign a petition - and--
  
• write letters to elected representatives - be a visible citizen and advocate for what you want. Find your representatives here.
  
• or call them: https://www.callmycongress.com/ for details. From bellebrita, "if you get nervous on the phone, google a script that works for you on the issue you want to call about. Copy and paste it into a doc. Make sure you change all the "your name" and "member of Congress" blanks with your information! Read through it a few times out loud. Anytime you hesitate or trip over your words, try to revise the script to sound more natural to you."
  
• persuade others to your side - gain allies to your cause
  
• serve as a juror - it is your duty and your responsibility.
  
• serve your community through military, disaster relief, or volunteer works - get involved beyond what directly affects you and your community; step out of your comfort zone and embrace a new community, too.
  
• lobby for laws that are of special interest - wear your differences proudly: woman, POC, LGTBQ, veteran and answer as a member of your community
  
• demonstrate through marches, boycotts, sit-ins, or other forms of protest - and, when necessary --
  
• disobey laws and taking the consequences to demonstrate that a law or policy is unjust - non-violent resistance, when properly organized, is extremely effective.
  
• contribute money to a party or candidate - and/or --
  
• campaign for a candidate - find someone who supports your interests and volunteer to help them get elected into office, or --
  
• run for office - if you can't find anyone in your municipality who supports your interests, consider running for office yourself.
  
• vote in local, state, and national elections - be a voice in your community to decide how next to act.
  
• hold public office - try being an example and hold it for a term, only. You'll gain a better understanding of our government system once you're on the other side.
  

Your political involvement will keep your community grounded in issues that matter to you. Your vocal, active presence; being known for someone who cares about the issues, will remind people who don't socialize with others like you that you are a very real, very present, very human person and that you deserve the same rights as they do. By taking on civic responsibilities, you are also nipping in the bud any prejudices others may have about your age, gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, etc. The most important thing to remember in all levels of politics is visibility. If your political leaders don't know how you stand on the issues, they can't represent you. So be present. Make them learn your name. Have them recognize your face. Create a relationship with them and speak up for yourself and the people of your community you represent.
Reading Lists
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker - how to read the signs of impending violence and survive.
Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship by Engin F. Isin - a history of citizenship.
Autocracy: Rules of Survival by Marsha Gessen - a primer on resistance from an openly gay Russian-American journalist who chronicled Putin's rise.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini - a bit pop-psychology, but an easy introduction to framing persuasive arguments.
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by The Albert Einstein Institution - a list of non-violent resistance techniques.
How to Make Your Congressman Listen to You by Emily Ellsworth - the most effective ways to get you representative's attention as detailed by a staffer.
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - landbreaking feminist treatise. Please read with historical context. Free Kindle version on Amazon.
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan - arguably the start of the American feminist movement. Second-wave feminism, so please read as an introductory/historical text and with a critical eye to intersectionalism.
Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis - a history and examination of US feminism and how racism and classism of its leaders effected the movement.
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler, essentially a primer for her quintessential book (quite dense without context and entry-level readings), Gender Trouble.
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine - a study of brain science and gender.
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks - a short (138 page) feminism primer.
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - how beauty is used as a tool against women; essential in a Trump America.
Women of Color and Feminism by Maythee Rojas - how women of color experience sexism.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks - an examination of how sexism and racism affect black women.
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock - a memoir of a poor, multi-racial transwoman growing up in America with insight into the challenges these marginalized populations have.
Whipping Girl by Julia Serano - experiences of a trans-woman and her reflections on gender.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - focuses on, among other things, the ways that white America has repeatedly shown black people that their bodies are not their own. Recommended by myplantscancount
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloris, Jr. - a book of essays about what it means to be American Indian.
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith - a critic of white colonialism in America and how it undermined American Indian women.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving by Lila Abu-Lughod - a critic of Western feminism interference in the Muslim world. Other texts here
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa - essays and poems from the author's experience as a chicana, a lesbian and an activist.
Orientalism by Edward Said - how the West othered the East in a peculiar way, not at all like they othered the Africas or the Americas.
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu - how a binary view of race marginalizes other minorities.
Asian-American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia - on Asian-American issues.

Link to the second discussion
If you didn't have time to read the book/short story or you finished parts of them, I still encourage you to participate/critique what other users say. There's still time to finish the male-oriented short story as it's only about 12 pages long.

• Feminist book

Undoing Gender (Judith Butler, 2004)
"Butler examines gender, sex, psychoanalysis and the medical treatment of intersex people...Butler reexamines the theory of performativity that she originally explored in Gender Trouble. While many of Butler's books are intended for a highly academic audience, Undoing Gender reaches out to a much broader readership."

• Male-oriented short story

Paul's Case (Willa Sibert Cather, 1905)
"This is the most anthologized of all of Cather's writing...It has been called a "study in temperament." It is a testimony to the reality of youthful dissatisfactions and the common failure of families to understand and of schools to be helpful... "Paul's Case" is useful in student discussions of adolescent issues..."
Questions to consider answering:

• Do you find Butler's views to be helpful/relevant in analyzing gender norms/regulations as they are today?
  
• How do Butler's views fit into the sometimes shaky relationship feminism has with LGBTQI movements/individuals?
  
• Which argument did you think was the strongest from Butler? The weakest?
  
• Was there anything that surprised you while reading Butler's work? What was the most interesting thing she said?
  
• Did Cather illuminate any issues that young people, more particularly, young men, face growing up? If so, what are those issues? Given the date of publish, do you think things have improved, gotten worse, or stayed the same? How would you like to see these issues fixed?
  
• Did you learn anything new? Has your view/opinion on a certain topic been changed at all?
  

Providing there are at least ~3 people who respond, next month we will read this book:
Month 4 - to be discussed September 15th

• MRA book

Spreading Misandry (Paul Nathanson, Katherine Young, 2001)
"Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that [lurid and sensationalized events affecting men] reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class...Legalizing Misandry offers lively and compelling evidence to demonstrate the pervasiveness of this new thinking - from the courts, classrooms, government committees, and corporate bureaucracies to laws and policies affecting employment, marriage, divorce, custody, sexual harassment, violence, and human rights."
As a heads-up, the book we will be reading two months from now (that is, the sixth month, from Oct 15th - Nov 15th, with the discussion on Nov 15th) will be Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power. I have been unable to source an online pdf that I can share. If you plan on participating, please make the necessary efforts to ensure you can either buy the book, get a copy from the library, or have a stronger google-fu than I.

Hi, I would like to compile a list of possible sources that we can read in this subreddit. Ideally, the links will lead to pdfs of chapters or scholarly articles in academic journals.
If you have any suggestions to add to the list please leave them here.
Also, please note that if you are looking for sources in a university's library system, your links may be behind paywalls for others. It's probably best to start with Google, not something like JSTOR.
Preliminary List:
Men's Rights texts:
Warren Farrell's cliff notes for the Myth of Male Power: http://www.warrenfarrell.org/TheBook/
There is a 3 hour audio version/interview of the Myth of Male Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Raufh8fP8
A long article in The Futurist called "The Misandry Bubble,": http://puerarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TheFuturist_TheMisandryBubble.pdf
78 page excerpt from Swayne O'Pie's Exposing Feminism: The Thirty Years' War against Men http://therightsofman.typepad.co.uk/files/120619-sample-chapters-from-exposing-feminism.pdf
All issues of the journal New Male Studies are available online: http://www.newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/issue/archive
Short article on father's rights and best interests of the child: http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/clrj/pdfs/gresk.pdf
A critique of the father's rights movement: http://w3.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/documents/separatedfathers.pdf
A different article (probably a critique) of the father's rights movement: https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jlasc/articles/volume4/issue1/Spielberger4U.Pa.J.L.%26Soc.Change55(1997).pdf
A full 2001 issue of the Journal of Men's Studies (men's lib?): http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.9602&rep=rep1&type=pdf
On Feminism:
Introduction to the Feminine Mystique (about 20 pages): https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf
Introduction to feminist perspectives: http://www.myacpa.org/sites/default/files/Feminist_Theoretical_Perspectives_pasque_wimmer_REV.pdf
Camille Paglia, "Feminism Past and Present: Ideology, Action, and Reform," https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/Feminism-Paglia1.pdf
A 32 page essay written by feminist scholars on "feminism, women's movements, and women in movement." http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Interface-3-2-editorial.pdf
Excerpt from The Feminist Reader, a chapter that seems to focus on distinguishing between feminism, femininity, and female: http://www.torilmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Feminist_Female_Feminine-ocr.pdf
The first 47 pages of The Feminist Reader: http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/projects/crwsj/conversations/archive/20082009/may_2009_workshop/morgan_writing_feminist_history.pdf
"Whose Feminism? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate," https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/Feminism-Paglia1.pdf
80ish pages from Sandra Harding's The Science Question in Feminism: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/76-327A/readings/Harding.pdf
Mathis, "Who Stole Feminism," (might just be a long review of Christina Hoff Sommers): http://mileswmathis.com/boys.pdf
Volp, "Feminism vs. Multiculturalism," Columbia Law Review: http://www.ces.uc.pt/ficheiros2/files/genderworkshopmulticulturalismo.pdf
Donna Haraway, "The Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, Socialist feminism in the late 20th century," http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf
92 page excerpt from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; http://lauragonzalez.com/TC/BUTLER_gender_trouble.pdf
Eisenstein, "Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism," Critical Sociology: http://www.busin.biz/library/feminism/Capitalist%20Patriarchy%20and%20Socialist%20Feminism.pdf
Issue of Critical Inquiry on "Men in Feminism" (1985): https://case.edu/affil/sce/SCE%20Reports%20-%20Critical%20Exchange/sce18%20Spring%201985.pdf
Mixed:
Gardiner, "Men, Masculinities, and Feminist Theory," (probably men's lib): https://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/5177_Kimmel_Chapter_3.pdf
Not sure what book this is, but the full book is there. It seems related to representations of men in mass media: http://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A735/datastream/PDF/view
Separate section for Google Scholar. The problem with GS is that it usually gives a preview of about 50 pages of a book, yet quite often 2 pages are missing every 10 pages. So, GS isn't the ideal choice, but we can preview the first chapters of notable books.
Christina Hoff Sommers' The War on Boys, chapter 1: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=cnieFlrhxgoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA13&dq=Christina+Hoff+Sommers&ots=wu8Em1cf8U&sig=tdFk8oHU2HKnvBzWUPIbwWrt5QE#v=onepage&q=Christina%20Hoff%20Sommers&f=false
CHS, Who Stole Feminism, preface, chp. 1, and part of chp. 2: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=EIUtJziqIqAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA11&dq=Christina+Hoff+Sommers&ots=rNG-GFLgyO&sig=1A75M8iCJWrovPi7jnexoAM4fxQ#v=onepage&q=Christina%20Hoff%20Sommers&f=false