Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!

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November 2011

Planned Parenthood will be offering FREE HIV... →

sexuallysmart: Please call to make an appointment with your local PP and encourage your friends to do the same.

Anonymous asked: What would be fair or favorable way to depect LGBT or minorities in fiction/media?

On HBC being available OTC

stfusexists: This is a great topic with a ton of points to discuss on both sides. Here are some of the thought provoking messages I’ve received since giving my opinion on the subject: Read More I really think you’re looking at this backwards. The way to address the problem of hormonal birth control currently being, in the US at least, financially off-limits to many would-be patients...

Schmekel: New York's "100% trans Jews"... →

Updated Nov 27: (primarily North American)... →

helpimtrappedontheinternet asked: Thanks for putting together that reading/watching list--I'm going to look for some of those next time I get a chance to head to the library. I don't have time to take gender studies courses at my university so I appreciate having a booklist so that I can read about it on my own time. :)

Anonymous asked: Do you have any good recommendations for intro books to gender and women theory/studies/history?

little-in-taking-or-giving asked: My women's study professor uses the word "transgendered" a lot. Is this an acceptable term, or is it inappropriate?

Andrea Dworkin on Transgender (and it's not what... →

I’ve had this bookmarked for several months and have been meaning to post it but haven’t got around to it till now. It’s a discussion of a chapter of Dworkin’s Woman Hating. And a discussion of how Dworkin has become something of a godhead for transphobic radical feminists. …And a discussion of how Dworkin appears to have been very much misinterpreted in that respect...

thekailife asked: I appreciate the rejection of Dworkin and Mackinnon.

On No-shave November

It turns out that i’ve been accidentally participating in No-Shave November. I haven’t done anything about the hair on my legs, brows (or anywhere on my face) or pussy since the middle of October. Because i’m just too lazy. Still counts. In fact, it probably counts more—i’m not shaving for exactly the right reason: i don’t want to (it’s inconvenient/...

Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: Books books books... →

ajeffgowland: fuckyeahgenderstudies: mylifeasafeminista: fuckyeahgenderstudies: All right! I’ve been saying for almost 18 months that i was going to make a list of books, etc. that you may find illuminating or interesting in a variety of ways on a number of topics/themes across the overall scope of this blog. I’m going to post it as a blog post (as you can see), but i’m… I always...

I have added the following note to my books list:

You will notice that this list currently prioritises some aspects of gender studies/related issues over others. Namely, there’s a lot on disability, illness, embodiment, trans/gender and passing, corporeal subjectivity and sexology, and comparatively less on ethnic minorities’ feminisms and theoretical texts how race (especially in the US) intersects with feminism. This is because the...

eiridescent asked: On the reading list, I would recommend adding "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" by Julia Serano. (And read it if you haven't and can find the time, it's terrific!)

Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: Books books books... →

mylifeasafeminista: fuckyeahgenderstudies: All right! I’ve been saying for almost 18 months that i was going to make a list of books, etc. that you may find illuminating or interesting in a variety of ways on a number of topics/themes across the overall scope of this blog. I’m going to post it as a blog post (as you can see), but i’m… I always appreciate a long list of feminist texts, but...

skatedestroyrepeat asked: Hey on your book list, you left off Matt Kailey's book titled Just add Hormones.

Books books books books, etc.

All right! I’ve been saying for almost 18 months that i was going to make a list of books, etc. that you may find illuminating or interesting in a variety of ways on a number of topics/themes across the overall scope of this blog. I’m going to post it as a blog post (as you can see), but i’m also going to keep it permanently linked as a page on the sidebar of my blog as a...

I'm finally putting together a (long-ass) list of...

I don’t want to call it a reading list, but it’s a list of books and films that you may find illuminating or interesting in a variety of ways on a number of topics/themes across the overall scope of this blog. It’s taking fucking forever… but it will be up later today (Friday).

Anonymous asked: What do you think the most progressive piece of legislation (gender wise) ever passed in any country is?

Anonymous asked: Hi, in your profile it says that you have been to university in both the north and south of the country. Do you find that the north/south divide affects the feminist movement and the feminists who comprise it?

Over the last week or so i’ve been getting a collection of very odd out-of-context questions from the same person. I suspect i’m either being elaborately trolled or someone wants me to do their homework for them. I’m not going to do your homework for you. I even say as much right on my ask page.

Anonymous asked: Is there any correlation between the effectiveness of eliminating gender based discrimination and the structure of a language such as French with its masculine and feminine verbs?

samdrogynous asked: my sister is going to have a baby, and I'm probably going to be a huge part of it's life. I identify as androgynous, and don't want to be boxed into a label of either "aunt" or "uncle." are there any gender neutral names that this child can be raised to call me?

Anonymous asked: It is well-known fact that most serial killers are men. Has anyone considered affirmative action to redress the balance?

Anonymous asked: Just to let you know, Michigan Technological University has gender-neutral housing, and there's an effort to establish it at Northern Michigan University as well. Also, though I'm sure you hear it all the time, your tumblr is awesome. It was a wonderful surprise when I found it.

I have debilitating perfectionism when it comes to my academic work. Do any of you, dear readers, know of effective methods to overcome perfectionism? I know it’s a symptom of a larger problem, but right now all i need to fix is the perfectionism.

oppressionisyucky-deactivated20 asked: I love the colors on the new layout.

Academia can really suck sometimes

I know that. That’s half the point. That’s why i do this. That’s WHY i went to graduate school, that’s why i’m writing research proposals. Because academia can really suck and i want to make it suck less. Last night i found a paper, written by a man, that decided to transform the very serious and very deadly illness of anorexia nervosa into a lens through which he...

New blog layout →

It’s not perfect but it’s a lot better than before, i think. What do you think? p.s. special thanks to Charlie for helping me make it look not shit.

everything-floats asked: Feel free not to post this, as it's not entirely relevant to your content, but I'm reaching out to try and find participants for a psychology survey I've created for a class project, the subject of which is gender and beauty. I identify as genderqueer and I would like to see more gender/sexuality diversity represented in the data, but I don't have much access to that diversity...

Anonymous asked: Do you have a google+ page/account?

5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every... →

verolynne: fuckyeahgenderstudies: flapjackstate: nefariousnewt: shewalkslikethunder: daskannnichtsein: marvelade: We think of Hollywood as a liberal and socially progressive land of hippies, what with its endless fundraisers and giving awards to movies that teach us that intolerance is wrong. Yet in certain ways, movies are still way behind the times. TEARS OF JOY ON MY FACE IS...

5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every... →

xtremecaffeine: fuckyeahgenderstudies: flapjackstate: nefariousnewt: shewalkslikethunder: daskannnichtsein: marvelade: We think of Hollywood as a liberal and socially progressive land of hippies, what with its endless fundraisers and giving awards to movies that teach us that intolerance is wrong. Yet in certain ways, movies are still way behind the times. TEARS OF JOY ON MY...

5 Old-Timey Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every... →

flapjackstate: nefariousnewt: shewalkslikethunder: daskannnichtsein: marvelade: We think of Hollywood as a liberal and socially progressive land of hippies, what with its endless fundraisers and giving awards to movies that teach us that intolerance is wrong. Yet in certain ways, movies are still way behind the times. TEARS OF JOY ON MY FACE IS THIS REALLY ON CRACKED Damn...

Anonymous asked: Hi, On the Colbert Report there was an article that said girls in the US supposedly were dipping their tampons in vodka to get drunk (guys as well). Have you heard of this happening?

Cross-dressing raptors avoid violence →

Here’s some fun, unexpected, v. interesting science from the Not Rocket Science blog! See also “Evolution’s Rainbow, from sparrows’ stripes to lizard lesbianism”.

Patients Remember Dr. Tiller →

feministblackboard: Part 1 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Part 2 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Part 3 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Part 4 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Part 5 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Part 6 of 6: The Assassination of Dr. Tiller. Patients Remember Dr. Tiller Dr. George Tiller, one of only three practitioners providing...

Please bear with. P.S. I watched a cool documentary the other day. Capturing the Friedmans. Highly recommend it. And on the topic of documentaries, i also recommend (approx. 10000000x more than the above) Paris is Burning. It’s on YouTube. Part 1 is here.

Anonymous asked: Ok,there are a lot what is written of what NOT to show about LGBT. But what underrepresented or unrepresented characters do you want to see in fiction?

I finished Zero Degrees of Empathy

and it’s just total bullshit. This is not a particularly detailed book review but i think it tells you all you need to know. The man is a quack.

Anonymous asked: just out of curiosity, why wouldn't you watch the film?

therisingtithes asked: About The Princess and The Frog, I didn't particularly see *the film* as racist. There are only two characters that are clearly racist/sexist in the film, and Tiara's success triumphs over that. Perhaps the only vaguely racist ideal I saw in the film was the portrayal of voodoo, which I saw mainly as a plot device rather than a racist overtone. I know she's probably not a Disney...

Anonymous asked: What's your opinion on depictions of gender in Disney movies?

Anonymous asked: TW: Hi there is a story in the news where a 12 year old raped his special needs teacher that seems to be pulling me in different directions. On the one hand rape can never be excused or defended but when you look at his history I can't help but feel a bit sorry for him, when he was 4 he already had substance abuse. Its in the guardian. Thoughts?