GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cisgender, Intersectionality, Combahee River
4 Jun 2018
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Lecture 3:
Gender neutral pronouns
In English- he/she- his/her
But we also write they and their
But some people don’t fit into the gender binary- don’t i.d as male or female so it’s useful to use
gender neutral pronoun
Variety- some on the slide
Ze and hir
Ze went to the store
Hir sweatshirt is on the table
In popular culture people use they and their- and use it as singular
s/he (they)
French: il-elle
= ille
What is sex? What is gender?
Sex:
Biological, chromosomes, genitalia, male/female
Gender:
Social, social cues, masculine\feminine
Assuming science and medicine is neutral and not socially embedded
Think about the way science is socially constructed
When looking at scientific research- important to know what the goal is.
Clip:
Bell Hooks on Voice
She’s a feminist scholar
Who is creating categories and where they come from?
And who’s voices are raised?
Alex Wilson- How we find ourselves
READING
A two spirited indigenous individual
Doing what we call standpoint epistemology
Epistemology- is how we know what we know- where is our knowledge coming from?
Standpoint epistemology is saying, how your position in the world as an individual influences
how you know what you know
When people write articles with this= they talk about their ID and how that impacts the research
their doing
This author is writing about how people explain two spirited and will explain how it is as she is
one of them-inside community
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Document Summary
But some people don"t fit into the gender binary- don"t i. d as male or female so it"s useful to use gender neutral pronoun. In popular culture people use they and their- and use it as singular s/he (they) Assuming science and medicine is neutral and not socially embedded. Think about the way science is socially constructed. When looking at scientific research- important to know what the goal is. Standpoint epistemology is saying, how your position in the world as an individual influences how you know what you know. When people write articles with this= they talk about their id and how that impacts the research their doing. This author is writing about how people explain two spirited and will explain how it is as she is one of them-inside community. Some perspectives of lgbtq community- theories coming from not indigenous people and misrepresentation of two-spiritedness. Also talks about coming to mtl and trying to come into the community.
