Tag: Feminism

• A spur to prick the sides of my intent

  Suppose it were possible to change things about your own birth? What a great idea, right? Just think what that might mean: at the very least, perhaps, that you would not be imprisoned by whatever genetics you were allotted; you might actually have a chance to be the master of your own fate; and if […]

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  March 3, 2021

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  Ada Jaarsma, Aeon.co, DNA, Epigenetics, existence precedes essence, existentialism, Feminism, inheritance, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mount Royal University in Calgary, philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir, stories

• The raven himself is hoarse

  There was a time when I thought I finally had a handle on gender: it’s a spectrum, right? It’s not defined by biology or chromosomes -it’s how you think, how you feel, who you are. It should not merely be assigned, it should be assumed. And just when I thought I was escaping from the […]

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  February 3, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Bell curve, binaries, biology, cis gendered, Feminism, Gender, philosophy, queer feminism, radical feminism, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, sex, spectrum, University of Warwick, Walt Whitman

• Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

  What have we done? Have we become so transfixed with definitions –differences– we have forgotten where we started? Where we want to go? Has the clarity for which we strived, opacified as it cooled? Sometimes the more encompassing the definition, the less useful it becomes. I suppose that coming from the putative dark side -that […]

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  February 26, 2020

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  Aeon.co, analytic feminism, continental feminism, definitions, emancipation, Feminism, Georgia Warnke, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Judith Butler, LGBTQIA, MIT, oppression, resignification, Sally Haslanger, Shakespeare, Simone de Beauvoir, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, University of California

• The Myth of Medicine

  The concept of the myth has always intrigued me. Not, as it is historically characterized – the fabulous stories of gods and heroes- or the more populist idea of an untruth or counterfactual, but rather as a metaphor. Myth as a way of explaining something that is difficult to put into words, that defies rational […]

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  August 4, 2015

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  cancer, Carl Jung, expectations, Feminism, Gynaecology, Hamlet, Joseph Campbell, Matryoshka dolls, metaphor, Myth, pap smear screening, Pap smears, Russian dolls, sexual disease, sexual history, Social Anthropologist

• A Feminist Resurgence?

  Women’s Liberation -that’s what we used to call the women’s movement when I was a teenager. It sounded like a good idea to me, even though I didn’t really know what it was all about. Girls had always seemed to bring out the best in guys, so I was all for it. I still am. But […]

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  August 28, 2014

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  Antifeminism, Cats against feminism, discrimination, dogma, evolution of feminism, Feminism, Feminist movement, Gynaecology, male gynaecologists, misogyny, the three waves of feminism, women’s liberation