GWST 1501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cisgender, Crossing Lines, Transphobia

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1501
• Professor: Kristine Klement

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Market society items sold to us, marketed to make us feel better about ourselves. An exchange or purpose that leads you to believe you are happy. E. g: a diamond ring is seen as a source of happiness/fair & lovely . Reproductive justice: a framework that includes social(have the knowledge), political(changing gender on birth certificate) and economic(health care affordable, accessibility) power and resources, fighting for the right to make healthy decisions about your body. Therefore you are not in control of making decisions of your body: example: (cid:862)asia(cid:374) co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities for reproductive justice(cid:863) demands holistic sex ed which addresses the needs/experiences of all groups (lgbt, poc, etc. ). E. g. choice of abortion, access to transition, better sex ed, sti check ups: aims to transform power inequities and create long term systemic change, all individuals are part of communities that we must support. The mountain a metaphor for binaries and the top of the mountain = the ultimate binary (cishet white dude).