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Olympic Gender Drama -The Press Sisters

Since we are a few months from the start of the 2012 London Olympic Games, thought I do a few posts about the gender controversies that have cropped up in past ones. I talked…

Family and relationshipsMedia, rhetoric, and discourse
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From a Deep, Deep Sleep

Yawwwwn. As you might have noticed I took a tiny writing hiatus for the holidays so that I could mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally step back and just observe. I’d love to share some…

Education and youthFamily and relationships
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Thin Mint Morality Wars: The Girl Scout Cookie Boycott

Last year, I wrote a guest post for the excellent blog Womanist Musings called “Leave the Kids Out of It,” about a brouhaha over gendered Halloween costumes. Now we’ve got another situation where kids…

Education and youthLabor, economics, and institutions
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True, All-Person Experience

My Brownie uniform “True, all-girl experience,” those were the words of the teen named Taylor who is part of a group trying to get people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because the Girl Scouts…

Education and youthTransgender identity and history
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The Criminal Behavior of the Serial Exterminist

as if you needed to read any more… THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF THE SERIAL RAPIST From 1984 to 1986, FBI Special Agents assigned to theNationalCenterfor the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) interviewed 41 men…

Culture, identity, and representationLaw and civil rights
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Dear Dr. Zucker, We Are Not an Experiment

After finally hearing Dr. Zucker’s comments on the CBC Radio show I participated in that aired this past Monday, I had to sit and reflect. Dr. Zucker referred to us (parents of gender diverse…

Community and organizingCulture, identity, and representation
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Gender Orientation, Identity, and Expression

I’ve witnessed many arguments and misunderstandings explode over the conflation of these THREE dimensions of what we in trans discourse collectively refer to as gender: Gender Orientation: One’s subjective experience of one’s body, including…

Culture, identity, and representationFeminism and gender politics
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Ask Matt: My Feminine Side is Screaming to Get Out

A reader writes: “I have questions, but have never had the strength or will to voice them and ask. I am, of course, a genetically born male, and most of the time I’m fine…

Culture, identity, and representationTransgender identity and history