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Theory not only dramatically changed feminism, by shifting the understanding of social constructions of gender from a simplistic oppressive binary to a fluid and unstable phenomenon with liberatory potential; it also made feminism focus on intersectionality.15 This, Pilcher and Whelehan tell us, marks the conceptual shift from feminism to gender st
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Vulture • 1776’s Sara Porkalob Has Some Notes
Because of killjoys, the story goes, we are not allowed to keep our traditions, to do what we had previously enjoyed doing in a relaxed and uncontroversial manner.
Sara Ahmed • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The notion of discursive construction—the idea that the way a particular society talks about things legitimizes them, making them seem self-evidently true—is therefore key to understanding queer Theory because it is through discursive construction that these roles and expectations are created and perpetuated.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Mary Poovey, a materialist feminist—a feminist who focuses primarily on how patriarchal and capitalist assumptions force women into socially constructed gender roles—described this clearly. Poovey was attracted to deconstructive techniques for their ability to undermine what she saw as socially constructed gender stereotypes (the belief that such s
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Put simply, to be homonormative is to desire all the privileges and rights that straight people have—including marriage, the right to have children, the ability to be thought of as a consumer. Many of those desires have become cornerstones of the gay rights movement, but they’ve also incited criticism, as they do little to interrogate the systems (
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Her mother had studied her quizzically one morning and said, “You don’t look feminine at all.” Alice had laughed and said, “It’s 1997, Mom. I don’t need to look feminine.”
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
we have to raise the question of whether algorithm design should be structured according to the logic of “fairness,” read as color and gender blindness, or according to the logic of racial, gender, and disability justice.