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Author speaks against stereotypes

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November 21, 2008, 05:22:29 PM
Author speaks against stereotypes

The Lamron
Jesse Goldberg
11/20/2008

On Nov. 19, Riki Wilchins, acclaimed author, speaker and executive director of the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, gave a lecture entitled "Ending Gender Stereotypes: A New Path to Full Equality" to a packed Union Ballroom.

Wilchins began by citing socially problematic labels: identities such as "homosexual," "woman" and "black." She explained that fitting into an identity that has been "problematized" requires having to produce an explicative narrative and, in contrast, she said, "people who are not in the problematized identities don't have to explain [anything]."
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