December 2011
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“Brenda Cossman on Obscenity Law”
– “The law dressed up in the feminist discourse of preventing harm towards women is… just sexual morality in drag”
“Judith Butler”
– … that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’ who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it...
“Michael Kimmel”
– But a terror remains, the terror that the young man will be unmasked as a fraud, a man who has not completely and irrevocably separated from mother. It will be other men who will do the unmasking. Failure will de-sex the man, make him appear as not fully a man. He will be seen as a Mama’s boy,...
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“Vic Memorial Speech 6/12/2011”
– “Let us stand together here, invoking whatever aid we can — whatever memory, whatever hope; whatever anger, whatever love; whatever divinity, whatever humanity — and promise to do whatever we can to hold back and to prevent the words and acts of violence, to heal its hurts, and...
