Davina Anne Gabriel

Davina Anne Gabriel (1954–2016[1]) was an American lesbian transgender activist active between the 1980s and 2000s in Kansas City.[2]

Writing and activism

According to Gabriel, she became involved in feminist movements beginning in the 1970s, and with lesbian, gay, and transgender (then transsexual) movements in the late 1980s.[3]

Gabriel was a scholar and writer, and she published her own local transgender newspaper called The Fine Print.[2]

Activism

In the 1990s she participated in debates about Camp Trans, a protest of the womyn-born womyn policy of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.[4][5] She took part in the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation as part of the "transgender contingent," which numbered "about forty persons".[6]

In May 1995, Gabriel and other Transexual Menace members took part in a vigil in Richardson County, Nebraska to honor Brandon Teena, a murdered transgender man, on the first day of his murderer's trial.[7] Around this time, Gabriel also worked with FTM International.[8]

TransSisters

She created, edited, and contributed to TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, an early and influential transfeminist zine, published between 1993–1995.[4][9] In the September/October 1993 issue, Gabriel said of founding the publication:[3]

"I decided to start this publication because I saw a need for a transsexual publication that presented a specifically feminist perspective, so as to create greater understanding and co-operation between the transsexual andfeminist communities, as well as to increase feminist consciousness among transsexuals, and to foster understanding of the phenomenon of transsexuality among non-transexual feminists".

Her work in TranSisters including interviewing Sandy Stone[10] and Leslie Feinberg.[11]

Personal life

Gabriel underwent gender-affirming surgery in the late 1970s.[3] Gabriel wrote in 1993 that "my feminist identitifcation was among the major factors in my decision to undergo transsexual surgery".[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Obituary for Davina Anne Gabriel". The Kansas City Star. April 21, 2016. pp. A14. Retrieved 17 March 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b "Gabriel , Davina Anne (undated)". UMKC Libraries Finding Aids. University of Missouri-Kansas City Special Collections and Archives. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
  3. ^ a b c d Gabriel, Davina Anne (September 1993). "From the Editor". TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism (1): 3 – via Archive.org.
  4. ^ a b Stryker, Susan; Whittle, Stephen (2013-10-18). The Transgender Studies Reader. Routledge. p. 699. ISBN 978-1-135-39884-2.
  5. ^ Ryan, Barbara (August 2001). Identity Politics in the Women's Movement. NYU Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8147-7478-6.
  6. ^ Gabriel, Davina Anne (September 1993). ""We're Queer Too!:" Trans Community Demands Inclusion". TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism (1): 13 – via Archive.org.
  7. ^ Riemer, Matthew; Brown, Leighton (2019-05-07). We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation. Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-399-58181-6.
  8. ^ Williams, Walter L.; Retter, Yolanda (2003). Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: A Documentary History. Greenwood Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-313-30696-9.
  9. ^ Xavier, Jessica (1996). "A Look Back at TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism" (PDF). Learning Trans. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  10. ^ Stryker, Susan (2019-08-01). "General Editor's Introduction". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 6 (3): 279–282. doi:10.1215/23289252-7549382. ISSN 2328-9252.
  11. ^ Heaney, Emma (2016-05-01). "Women-Identified Women". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 3 (1–2): 137–145. doi:10.1215/23289252-3334295. ISSN 2328-9252.

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