Word: genderism
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...those whose gender identity or expression differs from their perceived gender, or are not always perceived as male or always perceived as female, this decision could result in discrimination, harassment and embarrassment. Most bathrooms are labeled as women’s or men’s, making bathroom accessibility one of the most fundamental challenges that faces Harvard’s transgender and gender-variant students, faculty and staff. Many transgender and gender-variant people have been arrested or violently assaulted for using the “wrong” bathrooms, such as in the case of lawyer Dean Spade...
This year, the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) conducted a College-wide study of bathrooms. During the next few weeks, the BGLTSA will screen “Toilet Training,” a documentary video that uses personal accounts of transgender and gender-variant people to show the harassment that people face in segregated bathrooms. The BGLTSA has also located 38 campus bathrooms that do not specify gender, and has posted their locations on the BGLTSA website (www.hcs.harvard.edu/~queer).
...told, feminists haven’t always been responsive to the concerns of working-class women. American feminism as a social movement has been located in the white middle class, and the leaders of the feminist mainstream are only starting to think through the ways that race, class and gender intersect to marginalize women of color. Feminism often valorizes women who can take days off from work in order to attend a protest, while effectively ignoring women who cannot be so cavalier about losing a day’s wages. On the other hand, American labor movements from...
...host of other workers’ issues. Feminists, and anyone concerned about women’s rights at this University, should do everything they can to be in attendance. Their presence will affirm that at the end of the day, the structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest university and the object of Working Mother’s (misguided) approbation owes its women workers more than a pink slip and a girl-power press release...
...rise of male-targeted articles such as these only reinforces the fact—already seen in the gender unspecific proliferation of diet coke and low-carb lifestyles—that weight-maintenance is no longer female-only territory. Men, previously considered immune from society’s diet culture, are becoming increasingly (and dangerously) preoccupied with body image issues...