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Gender Theory
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Truth That Never Hurts : Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
by Barbara Smith
"At every moment of serious political crisis- and no thinking
person can argue that ours is not such a moment- certain writers
step forward with words that seem to ring from the very heart of
history. Barbara Smith is certainly one of these writers, and her
new book, electrifying, thought-provoking, illuminating, eloquent,
harsh, and funny, is essential reading. Whether you agree with
everything she says is not important; the essays in this book will
revivify your heart and mind and reawaken a passion for activism
and for justice." -- Tony Kushner, playwright
"Sobering in what it has to tell us, The Truth That Never
Hurts forces us to face those truths that disrupt the placid
surfaces of our lives. A personal/political odyssey that documents
some of the most critical moments in the last three decades of our
national life, Smith's book forces us to new levels of awareness.
Her piercing eye and uncompromising search for human justice for
all make this volume must-reading for everyone who cares about the
future." Nellie Y. McKay, co-editor, The Norton
Anthology of African American Literature
"Barbara Smith's uncompromising intelligence helped invent
the politics of intersection which grounds progressive thinking
today. These essays deliver trenchant analysis from one of the
most original, astute, and practical thinkers in the gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transgender movement." -- Urvashi Vaid,
director, The Policy Institute, National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force
About the Author
Barbara Smith is co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women
of Color Press. She has been writer in residence and taught at
numerous colleges and universities for over twenty-five years. Her
articles, essays, literary criticism, and short stories have
appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Nation,
The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Ms., and Gay
Community News. She has edited three major collections about Black
women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue (with Lorraine
Bethel), All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some
of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and
Patricia Bell Scott), and home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology.
She is also co-author with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt of
the editors of The Readers Companion to US Women's History.
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It's easy to say what Butch and Femme are
NOT, more difficult to express what Butch and Femme are,
and damned near impossible to write a F.A.Q. about Butch-Femme
devoid of any generalities. On several different discussion lists,
even as a group, we have never been able to distinctly define any
of the above terms in a way that everyone agrees with. The
final thesis is always: Butch, Stone Butch, Femme, and Stonefemme
are natural gender expressions that are of the heart, having
little to do with appearance or any stereotypical code of
behavior.
This is an amazing, wonderful website!
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This site contains photo pages, a mailing list,
a Butch Femme Webring, Butch Femme Gear, Chat, Butch Writings,
Femme Writings, and more.
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Gender Education and Advocacy
Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a new
national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of
gender variant people in human society. We seek to educate and
advocate, not only for ourselves and others like us, but for all
human beings who suffer from gender-based oppression in all of its
many forms.
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GenderPAC is the national organization working
to guarantee every American's civil right to express their gender
orientation free of stereotypes, discrimination and violence.
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A peer-reviewed academic journal publishing essays about gender and sexuality in relation to social, political, artistic, and economic concerns.
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This site provides and interesting collection of
postmodernist essays on transgender theory.
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By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Excerpt:
"Gender criticism" sounds like a
euphemism for something. In practice it is a euphemism for several
things, and more than that. One of its subtexts is gay and lesbian
criticism. There can be no mystery about why that highly stigmatic
label, though increasingly common, should be self-applied with
care--however proudly--by those of us who do this scholarship. For
instance, I almost never put "gay and lesbian" in the
title of undergraduate gay and lesbian studies courses, though I
always use the words in the catalog copy. To ask students to mark
their transcripts permanently with so much as the name of this
subject of study would have unpredictably disabling consequences
for them in the future: the military, most churches, the CIA, and
much of the psychoanalytic establishment, to mention only a few
plausible professions, are still unblinking about wanting to
exclude suspected lesbians and gay men, while in only a handful of
places in the U.S. does anyone have even nominal legal protection
against the routine denial of employment, housing, insurance,
custody, or other rights on the basis of her or his perceived or
supposed sexual orientation. Within and around academic
institutions, as well, there can be similarly persuasive reasons
for soft-selling the challenge to an oppression whose legal,
institutional, and extrajudicial sanctions extend, uniquely, quite
uninterruptedly up to the present...
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