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Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis

Goes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classification

Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters.

He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked identity documents such as birth certificates, driver’s licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports. Speaking from his own experience and drawing upon major cases of sex discrimination in the news and in the courts, Davis presents a persuasive case for challenging how individuals are classified according to sex and offers concrete recommendations for alleviating sex identity discrimination and sex-based disadvantage.

For anyone in search of pragmatic ways to make our world more inclusive, Davis’ recommendations provide much-needed practical guidance about how to work through this complex issue. A provocative call to action, Beyond Trans pushes us to think how we can work to make America truly inclusive of all people.

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Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies

This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg

Other Media We Mentioned

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler

Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image edited by Ophira Edut

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson

Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green & Tristan Taormino

Links, Articles, and Things

A small sample of Bibliocommons user-curated lists:

Early Feminism Through 1847

Feminist Classics: Third Wave Feminism, the 1990s

Trans Classics: important books about the many trans experiences

Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia)

TERF / FART / “Gender Critical”

Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’ by Jules Gill-Peterson

Gill-Peterson is one of 1,000+ contributors to the New York Times who signed an open letter condemning the anti-trans bigotry in their coverage. Read it here.

Hark! Episode 330: Fucking Pie

20 Gender Theory/Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan

The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn

Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson

Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

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sure thing! It’s a fairly mainstream “trans-inclusive” opinion that while sex is still biological (which is to say, binary, “real,” outside of social opinion, it exists in nature), gender is socially constructed. This frames being transgender as having a socially constructed gender that ‘conflicts with’ biological sex. This conforms to mainstream psychiatric models of transgenderism, which frames trans people as having an identity disorder or something psychologically wrong with us that makes us ‘want to have a gender that is different from our biological sex.’ It is a handy way of conceding that gender is social while still maintaining the belief that sex is a real biological thing. It is very common among doctors, cis allies, policy documents about trans inclusivity (the ones I’ve read, anyway), and is also a common opinion among trans people in my experience.

I really dislike this framing for several reasons - one is that it is in fact arguing that gender is biologically based by tying it to our ‘natural sex’ (if our gender ‘conflicts with’ our sex, then gender is still biologically based, and if the reason you want to change your gender is because of mental illness, then a desire to change one’s gender can only be gained through psychological abnormality). It also maintains sex as something that is real, unchanging, natural, and universal across space, time, and culture. It is none of those things -

sex can change (HRT, surgery, and so on changes our sex, in fact it’s called ‘sex reassignment surgery’ and HRT is comminly understood as initiating a ‘second puberty’),

sex is not binary - a belief that it is binary is what constructs the category of ‘intersex,’ ie people who don’t fit this supposed universal sex binary, and this construction produces medical violence against intersex people by positioning them as medically defective/abnormal,

sex is not ‘real’ in the sense that the category of ‘sex’ is a social construction that bundles a complex series of properties of the body (external genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, chromosomes, gametes, etc) together by claiming they always 100% coincide with each other and form a coherent whole (this is not true, ‘sex’ is a spectrum because sex refers to many, many things). You can read the work of Julia Serano, a trans biologist who has published many open access essays on this subject. I believe she recently published a piece critiquing the idea that gametes are binary

The process of assigning sex at birth does not even follow this supposed scientific fact properly, because we don’t run chromosome checks on infants, we don’t do ultrasounds on them to see what their internal organs look like, we don’t measure their hormone levels, and so on. Sex assignment at birth is a social process of doing a quick genital inspection of infants and then writing down their sex on birth records based on that inspection, and if those external genitals don’t conform to binary understandings of sex (eg the infant is intersex), these genitals are surgically altered to fit this binary model. I believe Adamson describes this in Beyond the Coloniality of Gender as preparing children for a life of ‘good heterosexual sex’ (this is a paraphrase, I don’t remember the exact quote)

Because sex is a socially constructed category, it is not universal, because social constructs are dependent on the social context they arise in. I’ve read a number of papers from postcolonial/decolonial scholars in particular critiquing this supposed universalism as a form of colonial domination (María Lugones’ Coloniality of Gender, Sally Engle Merry’s Colonial and Postcolonial Law, Boris Bertolt’s The Invention of Homophobia in Africa, Jenny Evang’s Is Gender Ideology Western Colonialism?, B Binaohan’s Decolonising Trans/Gender 101. These last two aren’t postcolonial works but they’re very instructive for understanding sex assignment as a deeply oppressive and non-scientific practice: Heath Fogg Davis’ Sex Classification Policies as Transgender Discrimination: An Intersectional Critique and Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and US Surveillance Practices)

essentially, “sex is biological, gender is social” is a massive cop-out that still accepts the framing of binary sexual biological legitimacy, which is the foundational belief that produces transphobic violence and discrimination in society. I really like Judith Butler’s framing of it Bodies That Matter: if sex is this supposedly biological reality that can’t change, but our understanding of sex is only always in reference to our social interpretation and application of it in the world (eg gender), then sex is also socially constructed

we never should have let cis people get away with “sex is biological, gender is social”

[xxxjarchiexxx]

fourth book for trans rights readathon completed, i listened to the audiobook of Beyond Trans by Heath Fogg Davis and it was. good? it was more gender nihilist 101 than i expected and as such is fully compatible with centrist ideals when i was hoping for something a bit more anarchic based on the premise, and also wasn't very academically rigorous but given it's meant to introduce gender abolition that loves and embraces trans people to a general audience, it fulfills its job. at times the book veers a little into strongly into not questioning the sex binary that it detracted from the message, which is a recurring issue i've been having with trans nonfiction lately-- where has all the sex nihilism gone!!!

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modern  foggs.  

 disclaimer:  mental  health  care  has  improved  massively  within  the  past  few  decades.  there  aren’t  very  many  insane  asylums  in  the  western  world  anymore.  i  have  heard  of  several  people  having  great  experiences  in  mental  hospitals  and  receiving  the  care  they  need.  however,  foggs  is  not  like  that  at  all.  it  is  still  an  incredibly  abusive  environment  that  should  not  be  running.  it  is  not  at  all  what  modern  mental  heath  care  should  look  like.  while  it  is  based  on  real  experiences  from  a  few  different  people,  it  is  fictional  and  made  out  to  be  a  very  bad  place.  please  do  not  read  this  and  assume  every  mental  health  care  center  is  like  this.  some  are  bad  and  some  are  good.  this  is  one  of  the  bad  ones.  i  am  also  not  a  mental  health  professional.  this  is  based  on  the  research  that  i've  done  based  on  other  people's  stories  and  aided  by  actual  professionals.  

 warnings  for  abuse  of  all  kinds,  suicide,  mental  illness,  hospitals,  eating  disorders,  general  things  about  mental  asylums  that  you  find  on  this  blog,  brief  mentions  of  grooming,  self-hatred,  etc.  

 fogg’s  mental  institution  was  started  in  1926  by  well-known  psychiatrist,  robert  john  fogg  who  claimed  to  have  been  inspired  by  the  mistreatment  he’d  witnessed  at  other  mental  institutions.  however,  many  people  would  disagree  that  was  his  mission.  this  hospital  originally  went  by  the  name,  foggs  asylum  for  the  insane  until  the  the  nineties  when  a  mental  health  act  was  passed  in  the  united  states  and  mental  hospitals  began  steering  away  from  the  term  ‘asylum.’  it  is  located  on  the  outskirts  from  london,  bordering  on  the  city  but  considered  to  be  a  safe  distance  away  for  the  safety  of  the  public  and  for  safety  of  the  patients.  

 from  the  almost  beginning,  foggs  was  overcrowded.  the  list  of  patients  requesting  a  bed  was  overflowing  and  expansions  were  quick  to  be  added  on.  however,  these  expansions  were  not  as  fast  as  previously  hoped.  it  did  not  deter  the  hospital  from  admitting  patients  anyway.  making  room  within  the  already  smaller-sized  wards.  by  the  mid  1930s,  foggs  was  a  chaotic  mess  with  patients  strapped  to  their  beds,  wandering  around  naked,  and  sickening  experiments  preformed.  their  peak  was  in  the  1950s  with  thousands  of  patients  with  no  hope  for  getting  the  help  they  needed.  it  was  often  compared  to  fellow  asylum  bethlem  royal  hospital,  well-known  as  bedlam.  

 with  the  introduction  of  medication  and  the  decline  in  mental  hospital  as  a  whole,  somehow  foggs  prevailed.  patients  were  moved  to  other  hospitals  or  taken  out  all  together  as  they  downsized  but  they  were  still  able  to  remain  a  functioning  mental  hospital.  everything  was  lawful  and  passed  tests  and  certifications.  

 however,  the  care  within  foggs  remained  infamous.  turpin  was  well-aware  of  foggs  and  often  made  the  suggestion  to  criminals  pleading  insanity  to  stay  there.  if  he  couldn’t  get  them  behind  bars,  then  he  would  get  them  into  the  most  sickening  hospital  he  could.  he  picked  this  hospital  carefully  for  johanna  upon  learning  her  plans  to  elope  with  her  high  school  sweetheart.  

 treatment  at  foggs  was  horrific,  johanna  learned  upon  entering  the  hospital.  she  was  taken  into  the  eating  disorder  unit  (  known  as  the  edu  ),  based  on  the  brief  time  when  she  was  twelve  when  she  experimented  with  disordered  eating  as  a  response  to  her  body  dysmorphia.  turpin  considered  this  to  be  a  safe  diagnoses  for  him.  he  did  not  want  people  to  believe  he  had  a  suicidal  ward/wife.  punishing  johanna  for  her  ungratefulness  when  she  developed  an  eating  disorder  pushed  a  message  across  for  her.  don’t  take  advantage  of  my  kindness  again.  

 the  staff  did  not  understand  eating  disorders.  they  believed  the  girls  in  there  to  be  spoiled  brats  seeking  attention  and  would  tell  that  to  their  faces.  most  of  the  other  girls  were  around  johanna’s  age.  the  oldest  was  twenty-one.  the  youngest  was  eleven.  no  one  tried  to  understand  why  these  girls  developed  these  disorders.  they  were  focused  on  getting  them  to  gain  weight  and  eat.  there  were  several  girls  who  seemed  to  be  competing  against  the  others  on  who  could  eat  the  least.  who  could  continue  the  loose  the  most  amount  of  weight.  to  have  a  feeding  tube  made  one  special  and  good  at  achieving  their  goals  to  those  girls  whose  illness  was  controlling  their  thoughts.  

 at  six  am,  the  night  nurses  would  wake  everyone  up  to  be  weighed,  wearing  nothing  a  hospital  gown  and  no  underwear.  nurses  would  make  sure  the  patients  weren’t  hiding  any  weights  underneath  before  stepping  on  the  scale.  often,  urine  samples  would  be  given  while  supervised  to  make  sure  the  patients  weren’t  water  loading  (  drinking  more  water  to  appear  as  if  they’ve  gained  weight  ).  after  the  weigh-ins,  medications  were  administered  at  seven  am.  johanna  was  able  to  dodge  most  medications  (  they  terrified  her  to  take  ),  although  she  was  diagonalized  with  several  other  mental  illnesses  as  well,  but  turpin  instructed  them  not  to  put  her  on  many,  but  there  were  blood  tests  almost  every  single  day  she  was  there  --  especially  when  she  first  arrived.  she  hated  getting  her  blood  taken.  

 at  eight  am,  the  staff  went  to  the  ward’s  cafeteria.  breakfast  began  at  eight  on  the  dot.  johanna  had  to  get  her  food,  sit  down  at  her  assigned  table,  get  checked  she  had  all  the  food  she  was  supposed  to  have,  and  consume  all  of  it  within  twenty  minutes.  if  she  didn’t  eat  all  of  it,  she  would  be  given  a  supplement  drink  to  gain  back  those  missing  calories.  this  happened  even  is  she  ate  most  of  it.  there  were  different  tables  a  patient  could  be  seated  at  depending  on  the  severity  of  their  illness.  all  of  these  tables  were  supervised  extremely  carefully  by  nurses.  johanna  did  not  like  any  of  the  nurses  there,  but  especially  these  ones.  she  was  given  a  lot  of  food  in  order  to  put  on  weight.  if  someone  refused  to  eat,  they  were  not  afraid  to  shove  it  down  via  a  nasogastric  tube.  the  more  one  held  out,  the  more  likely  it  was  forced  against  their  will.  

 after  each  meal  and  snack,  nurses  checked  around  the  table,  every  tray,  and  every  potential  hiding  spot  for  food.  johanna  would  be  escorted  back  to  her  bed  with  the  other  patients  and  had  to  sit  quietly  in  view  of  the  nurses  for  an  hour.  this  was  to  prevent  anyone  from  exercising  or  purge  what  food  they  ate.  if  one  had  to  go  to  the  bathroom  they  would  be  watched  by  a  nurse  to  ensure  they  didn’t  attempt  to  burn  calories  or  purge  or  self  harm.  

 there  was  one  point  in  johanna’s  stay  where  there  was  always  a  nurse  monitoring  her.  it  happened  close  to  the  beginning  when  she  tried  to  sneak  into  the  bathroom  alone.  they  took  this  as  her  attempting  to  purge  and  the  nurse  was  with  her  for  about  three  weeks  until  the  doctor  cleared  her.  

 this  may  have  been  influenced  by  dr.  jonas  fogg  himself,  who  had  followed  in  his  grandfather  and  now  ran  the  hospital.  he  knew  turpin  well  and  had  taken  and  immediate  interest  in  johanna  when  he  learned  she  was  staying  at  his  facility.  his  interest  in  her  made  johanna  more  than  uncomfortable.  though,  it  wasn’t  far  from  what  she  encountered  with  the  judge.  with  the  nurse  monitoring  her  constantly,  fogg  couldn’t  talk  to  johanna  privately.  or  attempt  anything.  although,  fogg  never  did  attempt  anything  on  her,  johanna  almost  pretended  to  go  to  the  bathroom  privately  again  to  get  the  nurse  back  --  despite  how  much  she  hated  it  originally.  

 blood  pressure,  pulse,  temperature,  and  breathing  rate  observations  happened  often  throughout  the  day.  when  johanna  first  arrived,  it  was  once  every  hour.  by  the  end,  it  was  every  four  hours.  there  were  visits  from  dieticians  and  at  times,  psychiatrist  visits.  however,  those  never  helped.  johanna  spent  the  majority  of  them  talking  about  problems  she  did  not  have  (  ex.  being  diagnosed  with  depression  despite  not  having  it  )  and  getting  scolded  about  every  little  thing.  

 within  the  first  few  weeks  of  being  there,  she  formed  a  plan  on  how  she  could  elope  with  anthony.  johanna  was  not  allowed  to  make  calls  or  have  visitors  until  she  earned  being  able  to  see  people  in  person.  but  once  she  did  and  once  anthony  found  her,  she  would  give  him  instructions  on  how  to  fill  out  a  marriage  license  and  had  bribed  a  girl  to  sign  as  a  witness  and  anthony  would  take  it  to  someone  she  knew  could  sign  to  make  it  legal.  johanna  bribed  the  girl  by  trading  trays  with  her  and  hiding  food  for  her  for  a  week.  she  felt  more  than  terrible  about  it.  but  it  was  the  only  way  she  knew  how  to  get  out  of  there.  

 mealtimes  were  at  ten  thirty  am  for  morning  tea,  lunch  at  twelve  thirty,  afternoon  tea  at  three  pm,  dinner  at  five  thirty  pm,  and  supper  at  eight  pm.  after  each  meal,  they  were  always  monitored  the  same  way.  

 medications  were  handed  out  at  eight  thirty  pm.  johanna  was  prescribed  a  medication  for  sleeping.  she  hated  it  and  would  attempt  to  refuse  it  if  possible.  though,  she  quickly  learned  that  if  she  did  refuse  it,  they  might  hook  her  up  to  an  iv  to  administer  the  medication  that  way.  though,  some  nights  she  tore  the  needle  out  and  blamed  it  on  moving  in  her  sleep.  nurses  would  come  in  every  hour,  shinning  a  light  in  her  face  to  see  if  she  was  asleep.  johanna  was  extremely  restless  during  her  nine  month  stay.  

 rooms  were  searched  hourly  for  any  sort  of  weapons.  pencils,  pens,  needles,  books,  stables,  etc.  this  was  even  worse  for  johanna  who  had  been  labeled  as  suicidal.  turpin  allowed  that  because  it  was  not  the  ‘reason’  she  was  in  the  hospital,  but  he  would  be  made  out  as  heroic  for  saving  his  suicidal  ward’s/wife’s  life.  if  anyone  did  find  out  about  her  stay  at  the  hospital.  

 johanna  ended  up  becoming  close  to  the  younger  girls  in  the  edu.  she  truly  did  want  to  help  them.  the  older  girls  tended  to  be  more  ‘competitive’  which  she  always  found  too  sad  and  anxiety-inducing.  the  staff  did  not  understand  mental  illness  well  and  frequently  abused  her  mentally  and  emotionally.  

 bamford  visited  her  once.  it  was  about  four  months  in.  johanna  wasn’t  aware  if  she  was  allowed  to  have  visitors  or  if  he  said  something  to  the  staff,  but  she  sat  across  from  him  in  the  prison-like  visiting  room.  he  offered  to  bring  her  home.  back  to  turpin.  who  she  would  be  married  to  or  sent  back  here.  johanna  refused  before  he  even  finished  speaking.  

 her  stay  at  this  hospital  worsened  her  anxiety  and  paranoia  instead  of  addressing  it.  her  hatred  towards  food  grew  worse.  she  only  ate  because  she  was  afraid  of  them  punishing  her.  she  was  constantly  terrified  they  would  put  her  on  suicide  watch  (  which  strapped  her  of  what  little  privacy  she  could  have  in  the  edu  and  people  would  be  under  surveillance  24/7  and  it  horrified  her  ).  she  had  little  privacy  (  couldn’t  shower  without  a  nurse  there,  couldn’t  use  the  bathroom  without  a  nurse  there,  had  to  wear  the  hospital’s  pajamas  or  gowns  though  they  felt  too  tight  on  her  and  she  wanted  better  layers  to  cover  herself  with  ).      

 foggs  made  johanna’s  eating  disorder  worse  after  she  escaped  with  anthony.  she  hadn’t  had  any  problems  with  her  eating  since  she  was  thirteen.  at  the  point  she  was  admitted,  she  was  seventeen.  they  made  an  mostly  non-existent  problem  worse.  body  image  is  always  something  she  grappled  with,  but  because  she  was  terrified  of  going  through  what  happened  when  turpin  discovered  her  eating  disorder  again,  she  didn’t  try  again.  she  was  underweight  but  not  dangerously.  with  enormous  amounts  of  food  that  she  couldn’t  possibly  finish  in  twenty  minutes  practically  shoved  down  her  throat,  she  had  an  intense  self-hatred  for  herself.  even  worse  than  before.  

[thelegendofjamieroberts]

Ok but they're not wrong? Gendered bathrooms became a thing because before women joined the workforce it was assumed only men would use restrooms. Then when women started joining the workforce, rich women demanded separate restrooms so they wouldn't mingle with men and "uncouth" (read: poor) women. And who's running scare campaigns about women being "assaulted by men" in bathrooms? Rich white women.

Sources: Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis, Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele

[nofatclips]

Gimme All Your Love by Alabama Shakes from the album Sound & Color - Contest winner music video directed by Clayton McCracken (runner up video here)

[nofatclips-home]

Gimme All Your Love by Alabama Shakes from the album Sound & Color - Directed by Larry Ismail & Marie-Laure Blancho

[alystayr]

Alabama Shakes - Don't Wanna Fight

[patchoulisecrets]

Six months of reading (arranged in order of date completed):

January:

01-05 Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

01-09 Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm

01-17 Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

01-21 Mickey Hart with Jay Stevens, Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion

01-24 Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times

01-27 Aravind Adiga, Amnesty

February:

02-01 Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2nd Ed)

02-06 John le Carré [David John Moore Cornwell], The Little Drummer Girl

02-08 Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman, Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm

02-10 Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence

02-16 Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

02-20 Heather McHugh, Muddy Matterhorn

02-22 John Connolly, Every Dead Thing

02-24 Algernon Charles Swinburne, Love's Cross-Currents: A Year's Letters

02-25 Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

March:

03-01 Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets

03-04 Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

03-12 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

03-19 Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

03-22 John Connolly, The Dirty South

03-25 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

03-29 Remy Boydell [art] and Michelle Perez [words], The Pervert

03-30 Willa Cather, My Ántonia

April:

04-03 Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland

04-06 S. A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

04-08 Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

04-16 Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

04-24 Willa Cather, One of Ours

04-26 Paisley Rekdal, Appropriate: A Provocation

May:

05-05 Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: A Novel

05-08 Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

05-12 Stephen King, The Institute

05-18 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

05-22 Elizabeth Siddall, My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall

June:

06-08 Ann Patchett, Taft

06-11 Jessica Barry [Melissa Pimentel], Don't Turn Around

06-14 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel

06-21 Carole Johnstone, Mirrorland

06-24 Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?

06-28 Karen Kondazian, The Whip

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Elevata, Row 1, column 1, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, 2002, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Susan H. Edwards; Dorothy Heath; Saundra Lane; Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs; The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation; Melvin R. Seiden; Dr. Daniel... © Maria M. Campos-Pons Size: sheet: 66.7 × 55.9 cm (26 1/4 × 22 in.) mount: 71.1 × 62.5 cm (28 × 24 5/8 in.) Medium: 1 of 16 Polacolor #6 24-by-20 Polaroid prints

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/339583

[bookclub4m]

20 Gender Theory/Gender Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan

The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn

Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill

Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull

Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson

Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

[harvard-art-museums-prints]

Medmenham Abbey, Butterworth and Heath, 19th century, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/245684

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Untitled, Greg Parker, 2000, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Milan A. Heath, Jr. '59 and Dorothy A. Heath in honor of Marjorie B. Cohn © Greg Parker Size: 43.2 x 30.4 cm (17 x 11 15/16 in.) Medium: Dry pigment, medium, and gesso on cream wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/318661

[ineffibleohfuck]

y’all want an artist reccomendation?

(excuse any spelling mistakes i Do Not posess a braincell today)

welcome to avimie’s artist recommendations!!

This weeks singer/songwriter/band; Alabama Shakes!

Alabama Shakes is an American blues rock band formed in Athens, Alabama in 2009. The band currently consists of lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, and drummer Steve Johnson. The group rose to prominence in the early 2010s and have sold over 1.5 million albums in the US.

The band began its career touring and performing at bars and clubs around the Southeast for two years while honing their sound and writing music. They recorded their debut album Boys & Girls with producer Andrija Tokic in Nashville while still unsigned. Online acclaim led ATO Records to sign the band, which released Boys & Girls in 2012 to critical success. The album’s hit single "Hold On" was nominated for three Grammy Awards. After a long touring cycle, the band recorded its second record Sound & Color, which was released in 2015 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and won four Grammy Awards. (Source; Wikipedia)

songs that i reccomend of theirs;

Alabama Shakes - Future People

Alabama Shakes - Hold On

Alabama Shakes - Don’t Wanna Fight

Alabama Shakes - Gimme All Your Love (Live on SNL)

Alabama Shakes - Over My Head

i hope y’all find this useful if you want!!