The misogyny behind PETA’s publicity stunts is on painful display when you see who is allowed to wear clothes and who is not.
Send nudes: PETA, misogyny, and animal welfare
Category: gender
On gender essentialism and magic in western canon
In western canon, magic falls out along very familiar lines, and they are deeply gender essentialist in nature. Who does magic, why, and how is often dictated by perceived gender.
Where are the media opportunities for underrepresented people?
People demanding to know where the underrepresented people in media are should get familiar with the labyrinthine process of hiring and promotions in the world of media.
Voter ID laws highlight another problem — navigating the government while trans
Think voter ID laws are bullshit? So do I, and it gets worse for trans people — being caught on the voter ID wave is a reminder of the larger difficulties when it comes to getting accurate identification.
Stranger Things craftily subverted a classic female archetype
In Stranger Things, the hysterical, crazed, desperate mother turns out to be the most leveleheaded of the adults around her, in a brilliant subversion of pop cultural and social tropes.
No, nonbinary people are not ruining everything
Some are claiming that the push for nonbinary and otherwise gender nonconforming visibility is harming trans people, but that argument doesn’t quite hold water.
If Jeffrey Tambor cares so much about trans talent, he’d give back that Emmy
Jeffrey Tambor just won his second Emmy for Leading Actor in a Transphobic Role, and he claims to care a ton about trans talent, but not enough to give up that golden statuette.
It’s time to leave the Benjamin Standards behind
Our reliance on the WPATH standards of care for transgender health is outdated and harmful for both trans people and the world at large. It’s time for a new look at the way we treat transition.
Washington teachers take on gender education
Teachers in Washington State will be taking on gender in their sexual education classes, over outcry from conservatives.
Nonbinary femmes, the second
Readers ask why a popular post on nonbinary femmes doesn’t cover every single aspect of nonbinary femme identity. I answer.