When we talk about gender, yes we talk about it as something that we do that was given to us, but we also talk about it in a way that implies malleability. To us, societally, gender is a fluid concept on a sliding scale that can be different from the way we were born, different … Read more
Despite the topic of my final paper ultimately focusing on intersex movements in South Africa, I felt it was important to provide myself with background on intersex rights and intersex struggles across Africa, a continent that I had not done any meaningful research into before this paper. Swarr (2023) starts the chapter with a quote: … Read more
Mistreatment of women in the workplace has been a long-standing issue for decades, but has gained attention since the rise of the #MeToo movement in the United States in 2017. Even after the impact that #MeToo has had in the cultural mind, many still argue that workplace sexism does not truly happen, that it is … Read more
It is hard not to hear about the laws being introduced at the state level and their biggest target being trans youth. One of the biggest resources for trans youth being targeted is gender affirming care such as hormone replacement therapy. As a trans young adult who in the past year has gained access to … Read more
During the COVID pandemic there were numerous prisons and jails releasing people from incarceration and one of the biggest states to do so was California. Releasing thousands of people there was instant lash back towards the actions of the state with worry that crime rates would rise. Before the COVID pandemic started California had lowered … Read more
In the past few years there has been an increase of transgender violence as well as an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ bills being introduced and enacted in state and national legislature. Since this has been a recent increase research takes time to provide there is a lack of data to discuss how these issues might be … Read more
Branching off of my last created post, I will be talking about the last selection framework that aims to navigate societal evolution. The third and final selection framework defined by Turner and Abrutyn is Marxian Selection and is used as a way to support their theory of Spencerian Selection. Marxian selection identifies the opposition to … Read more
“Well I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction. I was and yet I was unseen.” Ralph Ellison (1952). This statement eloquently illustrates how femicide persists in the United States today as it has done throughout history. The lack of the term in American society shows how invisible women’s murders are despite their … Read more
The next study I discuss by Lisnek et. al (2022) that I will be using for my paper uses a survey to conduct three separate studies on linkages/perceptions between women having more of a voice – through movements like #MeToo – and men feeling increasingly victimized. When this study talks about men’s victimization, they are … Read more
When we look at dystopian young adult fiction we think of the concepts presented as preposterous, things that could never happen in our world. One of those tropes we look at as somewhat unrealistic and farfetched is the idea of being sorted into factions against your own will. Unfortunately, that’s a part of our reality, … Read more