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Terms for gender: - Cisgender- gender identity is the same as biological sex - Transgender: gender identity is different than biological sex - Can include use of hormones or medical technology to align the biological body with the preferred gender - Outdated - Transsecual - Transvestite - Trans is an adj. Gender is a basic organizing category for a society In some cultures you can declare your gender if needed for society, look into afghanistan As kids we learn the “correct” way to do gender. - Judith Butler; Gender Trouble - Has a theory of performativity - We construct our gender through repeated performance of gender - Look at areospatle- create self via. Repeated actions like being a good eta . - This is done when we “go about” out gender - She also thinks there is no inherent self before gender performance, self if seen via the lens of gender? - We imitate dominant ideas of gender within our society - Think batman, shopkins, parents - learn what is appropriate or accepted - Gender tends to subsume biological sex - Gender is a process, structure and stratification system - Gender can be different and equal but we rank one over the other - Internexinality - “The interplay of race, class and gender, often resulting in multiple dimensions of disadvantage” - Very important ideas - We have have a nuanced conversion about privilege or other issues - She talks about how a lot of these issues are interlocked and hence cant be solved alone - Crenshaw coined the term - “Demarginalizing the intersection of Race and Sex” - Not just bc of one factor - Roxane Gay - It’s a race to the bottom, people want to be the most marginalized and hence stops the conversation about privilege - Symbolic annihilation - George Gerbner in 1979

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