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Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words …
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged …
The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. The feminist …
super enjoyable queer feminist foray into science fiction and time travel. I won't spoil it but I just love how embodied the time machine is.
honestly some of the insights are helpful. i think a lot of trans exclusive works that try to talk about gender dynamics actually suffer a lot theoretically from failing to consider trans examples. Wolf unpacks how the pressure to be beautiful affects cisgender women in their work life, in culture, and in their self image. But one thing that is not adequately unpacked is how gender itself is defined and policed by the idea of beauty. This is a situation where a consideration of trans lives is important. Wolf mentions how the pressure to perform beauty properly is enforced by violence, but how does that pressure manifest differently if you are a woman who is 6' tall and has 5 o'clock shadow? How does the pressure to perform beauty manifest differently in trans men or nonbinary people, or intersex people for that matter? Beauty, and the hang ups people have …
honestly some of the insights are helpful. i think a lot of trans exclusive works that try to talk about gender dynamics actually suffer a lot theoretically from failing to consider trans examples. Wolf unpacks how the pressure to be beautiful affects cisgender women in their work life, in culture, and in their self image. But one thing that is not adequately unpacked is how gender itself is defined and policed by the idea of beauty. This is a situation where a consideration of trans lives is important. Wolf mentions how the pressure to perform beauty properly is enforced by violence, but how does that pressure manifest differently if you are a woman who is 6' tall and has 5 o'clock shadow? How does the pressure to perform beauty manifest differently in trans men or nonbinary people, or intersex people for that matter? Beauty, and the hang ups people have around it, tell us a story about more than the domination and objectification of women (though that is part of the story). It tells a story about how gender is created, performed, and enforced.
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After surviving the strangest night of their lives in the Cleveland suburb of Stony Stream, …
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and …
A collection fairy tales for young wizards and witches, with each story followed by observations …
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on …
A graphic novel autobiography of Marjane Satrapi and her time growing up both in Iran …
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