Word: genderism
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...said she hopes the course will attract students with a variety of interests beyond music. “We want people in music, but we want more than that,” Oja said. “This appeals to people in Jewish studies, in gender studies.” Shelemay also stressed the range of interests and skills that the seminar will intersect with, adding that “what’s great about seminars like this is you get professors and students with different expertise.” The culmination of the Bernstein seminar will...
According to the Bible, Adam was the first to inhabit the Garden of Eden, but Eve arrived soon after. The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) took longer to achieve such gender integration, but is now celebrating 50 years of women at the school...
...issue is particularly salient for the transgender community on campus, which has been publicly ridiculed for using gender-neutral pronouns like ze and hir and bringing speakers to campus who wax poetic about boydykes, genderqueers, and butch fairies. Pronouns and terminology that express personal identity are not just about semantics. Words are more than words. Ze and hir are necessary pronouns for people who may not identify in a binary structure of male and female, and calling these pronouns ridiculous fundamentally means that you think living outside of that binary is equally ridiculous. It’s not just...
...queer community, a community where verbal, physical, and sexual assault are not uncommon and frequently go unreported. We can debate words and make fun of pronouns, but there’s no real reason why we can’t respect each individual’s right to define gender and sexuality. It doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s literally a matter of life and death for some students. The semantic debate is important, but it insults our intelligence when words like ze and hir are paraded around by people whose sole intent...
Ryan R. Thoreson ’07 is a government and studies of women, gender, and sexuality concentrator in Lowell House. He is co-Chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance...