Transgender Remembrance Day
Courtney Martin of Feministing has a list of "feminist questions she's still exploring." Some of them are particularly relevant for the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.
1. What is the accurate, once-and-for-all differences between men's and women's brains?
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4. When do I focus on being right and when do I focus on being effective?
5. When do I address sexism directly and when it is best to handle it indirectly?
6. How can society still be so invested in the categories hetero, homo, and bi when sexuality so obviously exists on a spectrum?
If I write about the ways our current constructions of gender confine us, I have to acknowledge that while it merely confines most of us inside too-narrow walls, for some of us... people... human beings!... it brutalizes and too often kills.
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