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Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

December 2010

Apologies (again (and again (and again))) for my inactivity. I’m being a bit shit, aren’t i? Final deadlines for PhD apps (US) are today/tomorrow, though, and, although i’ve got 11,000 words of essays to write in the next eighteen days, i will endeavour to post more. For those of you who are really missing me (!), i have started a personal blog with all sorts of random shit on,...

My kindle arrived today. I think it’s really nifty. One problem, however, is that it can’t do text-to-voice with the Cambridge Companion files i converted onto it. Who’s going to read Feminist Psychoanalysis to me in the bath now?

sexwithspencer asked: Hey FYGS! Love your blog, am a Women and Gender studies student myself, and I can't help but take slight issue with your post on the dog you came across.

You coined both the males your dog came in contact with "entire males". I can't help but feel that this is problematic. I assume you mean they are not neutered, but even in the animal kingdom, assuming one is...

sexwithspencer asked: Hey FYGS! Love your blog, am a Women and Gender studies student myself, and I can't help but take slight issue with your post on the dog you came across.

You coined both the males your dog came in contact with "entire males". I can't help but feel that this is problematic. I assume you mean they are not neutered, but even in the animal kingdom, assuming one is...

dishabillic asked: "Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined." I found that on blackdignity.org

Do you think that's factual?

dishabillic asked: "Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined." I found that on blackdignity.org

Do you think that's factual?

f-e-r-a-l asked: Hey, have you heard of/read Biological Exuberance? It's a thick book all about homosexuality in the natural world, pretty much destroying the "gay isn't natural" claim (not that we need to be convinced, but it's good info).

f-e-r-a-l asked: Hey, have you heard of/read Biological Exuberance? It's a thick book all about homosexuality in the natural world, pretty much destroying the "gay isn't natural" claim (not that we need to be convinced, but it's good info).

I met a probably gay dog today

Whilst i understand that the plural of anecdote is not data, this is at least interesting—and yet another two fingers stuck to those who think homosexuality is “unnatural” and “you don’t get gay [insert animal here]s”. Hecuba, who is currently in heat, and I were taking a walk this afternoon. Because she currently smells irresistible to all dogs within sniffing...

I’m defending a fictional character from sexist comments. I should probably just not have Facebook.

Jobcentre staff accused of calling homosexual... →

It’s Daily Mail, so i’d advise not reading the comments, just in case.

Remembering the Montreal Massacre →

In classroom C-230, students and the professor turned to stare at Lépine when he entered. Listen up, he told them. Women to one side of the room, men get out. No one moved until Lépine fired into the ceiling. Then the men left the room. Alone with nine women, Lépine said, “I am here to fight against feminism. That is why I am here.”

"Only when it affects me"

I’m sick and tired of seeing this, either explicitly stated or implied in re/actions or attitudes. Discrimination *always* matters. Not just when it affects you. The one that shocked me the most was a ‘friend’ who rightly would not tolerate use of ‘retarded’ around her because her elder sister had some learning/developmental issue. However, she happily used...

[TRIGGER WARNING] 'No Anorexia' model Isabelle... →

TRIGGER WARNING; features numbers, ED Isabelle actually died over a month ago, but it’s only just been made public, it seems.

literaltoddler-deactivated20120 asked: me teachers refuse to address me by my preferred pronoun (spivak) what do i do?

the-houxbois-academy-deactivate asked: Your critique of marriage is honest and fair, but do you admit the possibility of a radical reinterpretation of marriage that is built on a partnership or do you feel that reclaiming or reinterpreting marriage is a lost cause?

the-houxbois-academy-deactivate asked: Your critique of marriage is honest and fair, but do you admit the possibility of a radical reinterpretation of marriage that is built on a partnership or do you feel that reclaiming or reinterpreting marriage is a lost cause?

I don’t like the idea of marriage because, among other reasons, people aren’t possessions. You can’t OWN someone. They’re not “yours” and they never will be. So why do we say “my boyfriend” or “my girlfriend”? Okay, yes, it’s a little more cumbersome to say “the woman i’m dating” or “the man i love” or...

literaltoddler-deactivated20120 asked: me teachers refuse to address me by my preferred pronoun (spivak) what do i do?

How To Use Gender Neutral Pronouns →

jadedhippy: It’s like gender neutral pronouns 101, useful stuff! Might’ve already posted this, but just in case, here it is.

FYGSFYI and book recommendation

I hate it when people call me by my name. It’s patronising, irritating and superfluous, especially in a one-to-one conversation. I know who i am. “yes, but, FYGS, bla bla bla” “FYGS, i bla bla bla” “bla bla bla, see, FYGS” “FYGS FYGS FYGS”. I know my own damn name! In other news, i’m reading a very good book: Annie Potts. The...

spectrumnaut: From Binary Subverter You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt. You’ve been brought up and live in a world that’s designed to erase and demonize your existence, you’ve probably internalized a...

How to complain about the BBC interviewing pro-gay... →

Last night, as first highlighted by PinkNews.co.uk, the BBC’s flagship BBC News at Six programme on BBC One featured an interview with Stephen Green, who has previously called for gays to be executed on the news that Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish were celebrating the birth of their first son. We explain how to complain about this story. […] If you are outraged at the decision...

Last time this year i'll ask you to do this:... →

Legal aid cuts will hit women the hardest, says... →

Ethnic minorities and disabled people will also miss out after £600m cut to family law and divorce funding

Just browsing on Amazon; found a book entitled “Lgbt feminists”. Subtitle included Andrea Dworkin and Julie Bindel. Oh, how we laughed.

sugaredvenom: ateacupinastorm: 30,000 people protested the education cuts. There was recently another protest opposite Downing Street against disablity benefit cuts…. 30 people showed up. I can hardly talk cos I wasn’t there (I can’t afford to bob down to London whenever I feel like it) but how depressing. People really don’t give a shit do they? Including you E.Miliband. Sightly obvious...

neutresex: Embracing genders and existing in genders is as revolutionary as rejecting/abolishing/destroying/neglecting genders. We’ve got to be able to recognize that genders can be powerful, beautiful, liberating, and meaningful tools just as we are able to recognize that genders can be destructive, harmful, and restricting. :D

Judith Butler lecture in London! →

It’s Judy!! “Who Owns Kafka?” The legal battle between the state of Israel and the German literary archive over the question of who owns Kafka’s work has prompted Israeli lawyers to argue that Kafka is an ‘asset of the Jewish people’ and hence, of Israel. At stake is Kafka’s own complex cultural formation as a Prague Jew writing in German who alternately praised and disavowed...

CALL FOR TRANSGENDER AND GENDER-VARIANT PEOPLE:

I have been working on a transgender documentary for the past 6 months, and I am in need of a lot of female to male transgender interviews. I am interested in male to female interviews, but only a few more. Also interested in interviews with intersexed, and possibly other gender-varient people. If you are from the Philadelphia or Boston area, please leave a message in my ask box, with your...

CALL FOR TRANSGENDER AND GENDER-VARIANT PEOPLE:

I have been working on a transgender documentary for the past 6 months, and I am in need of a lot of female to male transgender interviews. I am interested in male to female interviews, but only a few more. Also interested in interviews with intersexed, and possibly other gender-varient people. If you are from the Philadelphia or Boston area, please leave a message in my ask box, with your...

They say women now earn more than men. Really? →

They say women now earn more than men. Really? →

Is China's Mosuo tribe the world's last... →

Women from the Mosuo tribe do not marry, take as many lovers as they wish and have no word for “father” or “husband”.

Is China's Mosuo tribe the world's last... →

Women from the Mosuo tribe do not marry, take as many lovers as they wish and have no word for “father” or “husband”.

Why today's panto prefers to see boys playing... →

The demise of the principal ‘female’ boy may say less about modern female objectification and more about the painted male

Miracle on 22nd St. Two New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment. This is lovely. I can’t bah, humbug this.

Something short, a few thoughts.

Someone on my facebook just posted the following status: “[Person] can hear her thirty year old male neighbour crying through the walls…. :(“ Which pissed me off. Not in and of itself, really, but because it goes to show how ingrained gender norms are. Again. All the time. Every day the same. This person felt the need to underscore her neighbour’s pathos by emphasising...

skulllduggery-deactivated201101 asked: Yo, thanks for posting that trigger warning info, it's always really good to have. I read a piece for a sociology/gender course this past semester that dealt with eating disorders and, as a past sufferer, it was *very* triggering and we had no prior knowledge of the content that would be in the piece. I sent the professor an email about it but never had the chance to talk to her about it in...

I would like to talk with ya'll about trigger...

clitoritastic: pigisapig: First off, what is a trigger warning, anyway? A trigger warning usually consists of bold, capitalized, or linked text describing in a broad way what text follows it. It can be in the form of a cut, or simply the title of the text in question, warning readers what kind of triggers can be found there. What are triggers, though? Triggers are things that cause a...

Rape Culture Jokes are STILL NOT FUNNY →

TRIGGER WARNING FOR LINK howtobeasatellite: If you have an Etsy account, please take a moment to send youstupidbitch a message informing them that this kind of joke - the kind of “humor” that promotes rape culture and dismisses victims of sexual assault - is not funny. There is no humor in blaming victims, isolating and insulting them, humiliating them, or taking their suffering lightly. Get...

I started a personal blog

because i don’t like clogging this up (which is silly considering promised dearth of posts till post-Festivus) with my upset and grievances and the odd picture of the puppy. http://FYGSplus.tumblr.com

George Osborne accused of homophobic remark

http://twitter.com/TheIndyNews/status/17521961945006082