"The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’"
”From mask mandates to critical race theory and gender identity, educators are besieged. “You are just trying to keep everything from collapsing,” one official said.”
"As redistricting process begins, advocates push for states to keep L.G.B.T.Q. communities in mind."
”A national organization dedicated to increasing the number of L.G.B.T.Q. Americans who hold elected office has begun an effort to lobby states and localities to keep gay neighborhoods united as they begin the once-a-decade process of redrawing congressional districts and other political boundaries.”
"A Six-Week Abortion Ban in Texas Will Probably Go Into Effect; This Is Why"
”The Texas law relies on a legal mechanism that makes it almost impossible to preemptively block.”
"The American Medical Association Recommends Dropping 'Sex' From Birth Certificates"
”This change would be "a valuable first step" in addressing "the inequities transgender and intersex people face," the group says.”
Kathryn Bond Stockton, "Gender Is Queer for Everyone"
”Gender is queer. By which I mean irredeemably strange, ungraspable, out of sync with “male” and “female,” weirdly not normal, since lived gender fails to conform to normative ideals and expectations, even when it is played quite straight. Conventional views try to snuff this strangeness, yet conventional views are strange.”
Anya Jabour, "Claims of protecting sex workers have long been used to punish them"
”Criminalization hurts sex workers instead of helping them.”
Article Spotlight
Jesse Bayker (2021), ‘Some Very Queer Couples’: Gender Migrants and Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century America. Gender & History. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12555
This article contends that the term gender migrant – which describes a person who changed gender on a long-term basis in their everyday life – offers a useful tool for grappling with the ambiguities of nineteenth-century transgender history. Examining four cases of gender change that circulated in the popular press between the antebellum era and the turn of the twentieth century, the article brings to light intimate relationships that do not fit within the categories of female husbands or sexual inverts that have become familiar to historians of sexuality. Some female-assigned gender migrants lived as men and sought same-gender intimacy in the company of other men. Reading ambiguous cases of love and marriage from multiple angles provides insight into the strategies that resourceful gender migrants used to legitimise their public gender identities.
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Episode Spotlight
In the 1960s, the airline industry ramped up its sexualization of stewardesses in order to increase revenues. Decades before the #MeToo movement, flight attendants navigated a workplace in which their employers required them to stay thin, remain unmarried, and squeeze into revealing clothing every day. In the early 1970s, flight attendants organized one of the first campaigns against workplace sexual harassment, assault, and sexual discrimination.
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