Category: Gender Performativity
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Gender Role Stereotypes
Gender performativity restricts an individual from reaching their full potential. Those gendered as women are obliged to be feminine and derive self-definition from the way in which they subscribe to feminine norms. Yet these norms frequently relegate them to secondary or submissive roles. In the novels Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and The Handmaids…
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The Importance of Trans Inclusivity in Schools
In the Murky discourse that surrounds Bathroom Bills the overall humanity of the subjects of such bills has been lost. Weve moved away from empathy and dived headlong into specious claims and assertions with little to no backing. It is important to keep in mind the worth and value of trans people and their right…