Entries tagged with osu: transgender politics

Yes, I want to see more poems, more paintings [by trans artists]. But I also want to try new recipes that use mangoes. I want homemade beer. I want to see ornithologists and physicists and piano tuners and a trans-identified expert in cultivating bonsai trees. One of these days there is going to be a transgender astronaut, a transgender president, a transgender romantic lead in a Hollywood blockbuster movie.

—Ryka Aoki, "To Consecrate this Night with Life", Seasonal Velocities

Ryka Aoki is a damned optimist. </bitter>

(tw if you want to read the source: the essay is subtitled "Keynote Address, 2009 Transgender Day of Remembrance" and therefore talks about violent murder (also rape) of trans people, and other works in the book deal with childhood sexual abuse, and I think I may be missing one sorry)

I'm reading Kate Bornstein's My New Gender Workbook for Transgender Politics class. One of the exercises therein is "Ask three different people how they would define for themselves the five components listed above. How do their answers compare to (a) your perception of each person and (b) your own answers to those questions as they apply to you?"

The five components are "gender assignment", "gender role", "gender identity", "gender expression", "gender attribution".

I r too lazy to pick out three people to bug about this. So: lazywebs! Without looking at the comments, anybody who wants to, please define those five terms for me in the comments! First comment is going to be me defining them for myself, for the record.

ETA: Fascinating comparing people's responses. Thank you all!

100 college things 66

100 college things 61: lazywebbing a class assignment of sorts