Adrienne Rich - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In one essay, this thinker lists “eight characteristics of male power” developed by Kathleen Gough. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this feminist thinker who popularized the term “compulsory heterosexuality” in her collection Blood, Bread, and Poetry.

ANSWER: Adrienne Rich [or Adrienne Cecile Rich]

[10e] Rich supported the namesake “separatism” of this sexuality, which is commonly represented by a pink, white, and orange pride flag.

ANSWER: lesbianism [prompt on gay or homosexuality or queer or LGBTQ]

[10h] Rich supported Janice Raymond in her writings on trans-exclusionary feminism, which directly inspired this 1987 essay, in which Sandy Stone critiqued the silencing of transgender people within the gender binary.

ANSWER: “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto”

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	18.00	100%	50%	30%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	100%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	92%	42%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UCSD C	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	10	0	10
Queen's	Simon Fraser	10	10	0	20
Toronto C	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Western A	10	10	10	30
Western B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	0	10
Florida C	Central Florida C	0	10	0	10
Western C	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Central Florida A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Brock	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
NC State A	Duke	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	VCU	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia	NC State B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	William and Mary	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Purdue B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Chicago E	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Northwestern D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Indiana C	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Yale	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Claremont	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	10	30
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	0	10
Brown	MIT	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Bruin	0	10	0	10
Mississipi State	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cardiff	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Bristol	0	10	0	10
City St. George's	Imperial C	0	0	0	0
Durham	LSE	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Montpellier	10	10	0	20
Cambridge B	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
UCL	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	John Jay	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	NYU A	0	0	0	0
Binghamton B	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
RIT	Penn State	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Rochester	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
Vassar	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10