Word: genderism
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...Undergraduate Council (UC) made a push for transgender rights last night by urging the University to include “gender identity and expression” in its non-discrimination code. The legislation, which passed by a vote of 33 in favor with three abstentions, comes two days before members of the Transgender Task Force (TTF) will meet with the Office of General Counsel to discuss inserting the clause. Nine years ago, the UC passed a similar resolution calling for the addition of gender identity to the non-discrimination clause, but their requests were met with deaf ears. The bill?...
STEPHEN LEWIS The U.N.'s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa is the author of Race Against Time I suggest Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female President. She has set an astonishing precedent by appointing a Cabinet of exact gender parity. Also Liberia's new woman President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who broke the monolithic boys' club of Africa. She will bring economic and social justice to her country. And Zackie Achmat, who leads the world's most important AIDS activist organization. He has brought hope to millions living with AIDS in Africa...
...danse a deux. To 21st century kids, pairs dancing must at first have seemed as bizarre and uncool an activity as synchronized swimming. For a couple of decades, dance has been self-expression, of an orgiastic, onanistic sort, not connection and communion with a partner of a different gender. Yet the show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute a hot tango, marvels that "It's like sex on hardwood." The contestants on Dancing With the Stars often lacked polish...
...think of myself as a spirit disguised in a human body,” Glück told the audience. She recounted that, when a translator asked her which gender she would prefer to be used in a Polish version of her poems, she answered: “Whatever makes the best of the pronoun, so that pronoun speaks to a human experience, not to a female experience...
...streets were too much,” that premiered yesterday in the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Shange’s all-female play, which debuted in 1968, became a Broadway hit and inspired Mason’s all-male followup two decades later. Both plays deal with the intersection of gender and race: put together, as they have been in blackC.A.S.T.’s inspired adaptation “rainbow/streets,” they bring to life many common themes of African-American experience, from community to the innocence of youth to the power of love. Director Jon E. Gentry...