SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Intersectionality, Dorothy Roberts, Nivedita Menon
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Performance, youth groups, greek life, presidential elections, gendered patterns of consumption, downtown disney, religious groups. Living together in a space: libraries, communal eating. Challenges: introducing conflict to become more intersectional. Intersex: between the ideals of biological male and female. Experience of biological sex, not sexual orientation (should not necessarily be grouped with lgbtq groups) Experience of biological sex is an experience of your body in the world. The experience of sexual pleasure, fertility changes over lifetime. Do not match up with static ideals of male and female. Sex categorical rigidity does not exist in nature. Waiting to make genital surgeries until children have grown up, can make their own decisions. Tied to reproductive priorities: reproductive ability versus sexual pleasure. At first, did not make medical research intentions clear, intersex individuals were very skeptical of the medical field. Other research articles framed intersex as deviant, weird . Downstream: survivors of violence, upstream: making spaces safe to prevent further assault.
