My doctors made it clear that there were two kinds of illness: those they could identify, and those that didn’t exist. My symptoms were simply shadow puppets cast by a mind that couldn’t control itself. I was confused. They were certain. They were wrong. Performance of a Lifetime I highly recommend this remarkable essay by …
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Burn, Gender Binary, Burn: Against Me! Turn North Carolina Show Into Protest
A while ago, when rock’n’roll behemoths like Bruce Springsteen canceled their respective North Carolina shows in a sign of protest against that state’s anti-anti-discrimination bill HB2, Against Me! and particularly frontwoman Laura Jane Grace announced that they would play their show in Durham, but would turn it into a form of protest. And they weren’t …
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“I don’t believe in men. I’ve never met a man in my life.”
Today, Guernica Magazine published a great, insightful and inciting interview with South Asian trans performance duo DarkMatter. For instance, this is how they expand upon the above statement that Alok never met a man:Janani Balasubramanian: I think what Alok was saying with the idea of how we’ve never met a man in our lives, is …
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The Internet recreates offline prejudices and changes them, twists them, makes them voyeuristic, and anonymity and physical distance make it easier for some individuals to treat other people as less than human. Laurie Penny Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet.
Judith Butler addresses TERFs and the use of theory against transgender people
This is a really good (and actually understandable) interview with Judith Butler in which she clarifies her positions on trans people undergoing transformation and surgery (”brave” and “there is nothing more important than for transgender people to ) the use of social construction theory against trans people (”a false, misleading, and oppressive use of the …
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Feminism is not about who opens the jar. It is not about who pays for the date. It is not about who moves the couch. It is not about who kills the bugs. It is not about who cooks the dinner. It’s not even about who stays home with the kids, as long as the …
And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally, this is so. Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. …
Defining Masculinity Down: The ‘Man’s-Man Game’ : Monkey See : NPR
Good comment by NPR’s Linda Holmes on the coded, homophobic language ‘honest’ but anonymous NFL insiders use, and the masculinity they claim is not compatible with gay men in locker rooms.Defining Masculinity Down: The ‘Man’s-Man Game’ : Monkey See : NPR
First, there is no naturalized gendered body. All of our bodies are modified with regard to gender, whether we seek out surgery or take hormones or not. All of us engage in or have engaged in processes of gender body modification (diets, shaving, exercise regimes, clothing choices, vitamins, birth control. etc) that alter our bodies, …
Judith Butler Explained with Cats
On binarythis.com Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is explained – in a dialog with confused kittehs. (hat tip to G. on fb)
CLARITY AND CHAOS 