Caste and Gender Identity in India
Discrimination against Dalit trans people dates back to the colonial era, when the Raj criminalized gender-nonconforming people from marginalized castes.
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How ‘Gender’ Became a Scare Word
Butler begins Who’s Afraid of Gender? with an overview of global “anti-gender” efforts by conservative religious figures and groups from Evangelical pastor Scott Lively’s work in Africa and Spain’s CitizenGo to authoritarian-minded politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has called “gender ideology” a threat to the nation itself.
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The Sexual Economy of Revolution
The “physique” periodicals of the 1950s and ’60s were not just a byproduct of the Homophile movement. They were a catalyst for it.
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On the Medicalization of Gender
Sex Science Self … is a legitimate and earnest expression of cultural anxieties (particularly in the gay community) about the prominence of transgender issues and the role of the pharmaceutical-industrial complex in the medical construction of gender.
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Gender Fluidity in Hawaiian Culture
In pre-Christian Hawaii, Māhū was a category of revered and admired individuals. Māhūs were regarded as the keepers of certain customs, and they played a vital role in passing on their wisdom to the next generations through traditional practices, such as hula and chant. They were what we would term transgender
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Of Genes, Genitals, and Gender
CRYSTAL WAS WORRIED that she had male orgasms. So she came in to the Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) Clinic three years ago for a consultation with a phalanx of specialists: a urologist, a geneticist, an endocrinologist, and me, the psychiatric consultant.
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Short Reviews
Short reviews of Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards, Independent Queer Cinema, and Putnam Camp.
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