Learning to unlearn
Hopping the Pond
I’m an only child with two lesbian mothers, but I attended a boys’ school for most of my life. From as early as I can remember, school was a male space and the home was a female space.
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Test tubes and makeup rules
A Modern Feminist?
We have been taught to think, from a very young age, that an intelligent person, a scientist, looks a certain way, which often isn’t very feminine.
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Conceal, don’t feel
LGBTea
Maybe I was born with it or maybe it was the five pounds of makeup on my face, but I felt like I was in a Maybelline commercial as I strutted to class.
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Why does being called a ‘tomboy’ rub me the wrong way?
I’ve never considered myself to be a tomboy, but I’ve also never considered myself to be super feminine, regardless of how much I want to see myself in this way.
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Schools should teach acceptance, expand sex, gender education
CITY AFFAIRS: Berkeley school district’s potential inclusivity policy for gender-nonconforming, transgender students is a step forward
Inclusive sex education across the country must prioritize comprehension over shame, understanding over ignorance, love over hate.
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Dresses, skirts, baggy shirts
Thinking Outside the Binary
I erased the preconceived notion that nonbinary was a strictly androgynous gender, and realized it is, instead, a rejection of any binary or trinary.
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The L-word
Sex on Tuesday
What kinds of desire have I ignored toward the goal of rendering myself simple enough to be legible to my family?
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I am not diversity
git reset
Over the years, I’ve recognized that my appearance is perhaps the only outlier in this tech community that overwhelmingly represents individuals like me.
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Berkeley City Council adopts gender-neutral language policy for municipal code
After the revisions, words such as “craftsmen” and “manhole” will be replaced with nongendered terms such as “craftspeople” and “maintenance hole,” respectively.
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Public policy must be informed by academic research on gender, sex
UC Berkeley’s research on gender and sexuality has contributed to our understanding of how gender and sex are entwined notions and how the production of genders engages layers of personal experience, institutions, relations of power, and shifting hierarchies and opportunities.
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