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Title: ‘Gender outlaw’ asks students to question binaries
Post by: Shana A on April 18, 2012, 09:00:19 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 18, 2012, 09:00:19 AM
April 17, 2012
'Gender outlaw' asks students to question binaries
By Amanda Dyslin The Free Press
http://mankatofreepress.com/talkers/x101451378/-Gender-outlaw-asks-students-to-question-binaries (http://mankatofreepress.com/talkers/x101451378/-Gender-outlaw-asks-students-to-question-binaries)
MANKATO — We live in a society where we are rich or poor, black or white, woman or man. But self-proclaimed "gender outlaw" Kate Bornstein says nothing about who we are is "either/or."
With class, for instance, there are numerous categories outside of rich and poor — working class, middle class, starving artists, homeless and many others. A person's race, age, sexuality, looks, ability, mental health, family/reproductive status, habitat, language, political ideology and gender are all just as complex, without definitive terms to define the same truth from one person to the next.
"Either/or is the language of bullies," Bornstein said to a room full of mostly students at Minnesota State University Tuesday night during the annual Carol Ortman Perkins Lecture.
'Gender outlaw' asks students to question binaries
By Amanda Dyslin The Free Press
http://mankatofreepress.com/talkers/x101451378/-Gender-outlaw-asks-students-to-question-binaries (http://mankatofreepress.com/talkers/x101451378/-Gender-outlaw-asks-students-to-question-binaries)
MANKATO — We live in a society where we are rich or poor, black or white, woman or man. But self-proclaimed "gender outlaw" Kate Bornstein says nothing about who we are is "either/or."
With class, for instance, there are numerous categories outside of rich and poor — working class, middle class, starving artists, homeless and many others. A person's race, age, sexuality, looks, ability, mental health, family/reproductive status, habitat, language, political ideology and gender are all just as complex, without definitive terms to define the same truth from one person to the next.
"Either/or is the language of bullies," Bornstein said to a room full of mostly students at Minnesota State University Tuesday night during the annual Carol Ortman Perkins Lecture.