Topic > Reflection on Paris is Burning - 706

They have faced issues such as gender discrimination, racism and poverty, but these have not hindered their passion to perform and entertain by incorporating the latest fashion statements. The film showed the same process that the women we've been discussing since day one are subjected to, with the exception of the fact that they have male genitalia. Emi Koyama goes a step further by redefining the meaning of feminism, as they (trans women) further broaden the scope of feminism. Koyama (2001) added: “transfeminism embodies a feminist coalition politics in which women from different backgrounds stand up for each other, because if we don't stand up for each other, no one will” (para. 5). And by women, Koyama meant every person who associates as