I wanted to take the time to share this survey I’ll be working on for my research paper this semester. The topic is autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how societal variables such as gender norms, race, and socioeconomic statues may influence individual’s with ASD. This is a rarely touched upon topic in sociology, but one I believe is very important to understand.
To take part in this survey, you must be either medically or self-diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and be 18 years old or older. If you or someone else you know fit the criteria, I would truly appreciate it if you’d take the time to complete this short survey so that I may collect further data on the topic.
Even if you are unable to take the survey yourself, it’ll help if you can share and reblog this survey link to spread the word:
Goodbye 2020. To kick out last year, here is my “gender politics” playlist.
Yes, I now use my Creative Arts to make YouTube playlists. Instead of writing. Sorry. Being an extrovert made indoor cat does weird things to you.
If you like music and \like\hate have strong feelings about gender, you will probably like this playlist, about gender as expressed and considered in music. Mostly music videos, all arranged for narrative, and compiled and edited by me, Alison.
…tumblr wont let me link the playlist as a video or make the playlist photo a link. imagine seeing images and hearing music at the same time.)
If you like this YouTube collage, you may enjoy the other ones on my channel. There are many, but I’m prob proudest of Deutsch Musik, if you like foreign languages, and American Values. gender politics is 150 songs long, so feel no need to watchtotheend,but at least give it 6 songs to decide.
And if you like it, please lmk <3
YouTube hacks,
- On foreign-language videos, or vids containing foreign langs, press c for [captions],
- in the queue, On the lefthand side of the video is a ||| icon that lets you drag it in the list, and on the right is a trashcan to delete it from queue,
- but if you want to add a vid to your own damn queue, you have to copy the list to yourself. lo siento,
[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]
Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.
Much of my research deals with the ways in which bodies are disciplined and how they go about resisting that discipline. In this piece, adapted from one of the answers to my PhD preliminary exams written and defended two months ago, I “name the disciplinary strategies that are used to control bodies and discuss the ways that bodies resist those strategies.” Additionally, I address how strategies of embodied control and resistance have changed over time, and how identifying and existing as a cyborg and/or an artificial intelligence can be understood as a strategy of control, resistance, or both.
In Jan Golinski’s Making Natural Knowledge, he spends some time discussing the different understandings of the word “discipline” and the role their transformations have played in the definition and transmission of knowledge as both artifacts and culture. In particular, he uses the space in section three of chapter two to discuss the role Foucault has played in historical understandings of knowledge, categorization, and disciplinarity. Using Foucault’s work in Discipline and Punish, we can draw an explicit connection between the various meanings “discipline” and ways that bodies are individually, culturally, and socially conditioned to fit particular modes of behavior, and the specific ways marginalized peoples are disciplined, relating to their various embodiments.
This will demonstrate how modes of observation and surveillance lead to certain types of embodiments being deemed “illegal” or otherwise unacceptable and thus further believed to be in need of methodologies of entrainment, correction, or reform in the form of psychological and physical torture, carceral punishment, and other means of institutionalization.
Caitlin Wood’s 2014 edited volume Criptiques consists of 25 articles, essays, poems, songs, or stories, primarily in the first person, all of which are written from disabled people’s perspectives. Both the titles and the content are meant to be provocative and challenging to the reader, and especially if that reader is not, themselves, disabled. As editor Caitlin Wood puts it in the introduction, Criptiques is “a daring space,” designed to allow disabled people to create and inhabit their own feelings and expressions of their lived experiences. As such, there’s no single methodology or style, here, and many of the perspectives contrast or even conflict with each other in their intentions and recommendations.
The 1965 translation of Frantz Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism, on the other hand, is a single coherent text exploring the clinical psychological and sociological implications of the Algerian Revolution. Fanon uses soldiers’ first person accounts, as well as his own psychological and medical training, to explore the impact of the war and its tactics on the individual psychologies, the familial relationships, and the social dynamics of the Algerian people, arguing that the damage and horrors of war and colonialism have placed the Algerians and the French in a new relational mode.
On This Day in June 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (Pub. L. 88-38) which is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (FLSA).
The act purpose was “to prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce.”
In other words, the act “prohibited sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill effort responsibility under similar working conditions.
The act was part of JFK’s New Frontier Program. Alas, almost 60-years later, women are still fighting for equal pay compared to men in the same jobs within the workplace.
I hate how feminism has become so commodified and soaked in bourgeois individualism. I don’t give a fuck about one woman being empowered by something, I want the big picture. The idea that any action is inherently feminist is fucking stupid, too–“Lots of women do this thing, so clearly it’s feminist and supports women! Nothing beyond that!” you have articles about SWEATSHOPS being feminist because a lot of women work in them. Exploitation isn’t empowerment, and the bare minimum is not something to celebrate! God.
weird little girls are literally the most powerful creative beings on the planet like i promise you no art made by an adult man can even begin to touch the plotlines of an elementary school girl’s pretend game
At last I have composed a masterpost about Grell’s gender, and gender in general in ‘Kuroshitsuji’. I am not sure whether I caught all of my posts on this topic, so if you find anything that I missed, please do nudge me ( •_•) σ (ÓwÒ)
The following is categorised into sections. I do realise the categorising is not perfect, but many posts really do overlap in categories… so my apologies here.
Much of my research deals with the ways in which bodies are disciplined and how they go about resisting that discipline. In this piece, adapted from one of the answers to my PhD preliminary exams written and defended two months ago, I “name the disciplinary strategies that are used to control bodies and discuss the ways that bodies resist those strategies.” Additionally, I address how strategies of embodied control and resistance have changed over time, and how identifying and existing as a cyborg and/or an artificial intelligence can be understood as a strategy of control, resistance, or both.
In Jan Golinski’s Making Natural Knowledge, he spends some time discussing the different understandings of the word “discipline” and the role their transformations have played in the definition and transmission of knowledge as both artifacts and culture. In particular, he uses the space in section three of chapter two to discuss the role Foucault has played in historical understandings of knowledge, categorization, and disciplinarity. Using Foucault’s work in Discipline and Punish, we can draw an explicit connection between the various meanings “discipline” and ways that bodies are individually, culturally, and socially conditioned to fit particular modes of behavior, and the specific ways marginalized peoples are disciplined, relating to their various embodiments.
This will demonstrate how modes of observation and surveillance lead to certain types of embodiments being deemed “illegal” or otherwise unacceptable and thus further believed to be in need of methodologies of entrainment, correction, or reform in the form of psychological and physical torture, carceral punishment, and other means of institutionalization.
Caitlin Wood’s 2014 edited volume Criptiques consists of 25 articles, essays, poems, songs, or stories, primarily in the first person, all of which are written from disabled people’s perspectives. Both the titles and the content are meant to be provocative and challenging to the reader, and especially if that reader is not, themselves, disabled. As editor Caitlin Wood puts it in the introduction, Criptiques is “a daring space,” designed to allow disabled people to create and inhabit their own feelings and expressions of their lived experiences. As such, there’s no single methodology or style, here, and many of the perspectives contrast or even conflict with each other in their intentions and recommendations.
The 1965 translation of Frantz Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism, on the other hand, is a single coherent text exploring the clinical psychological and sociological implications of the Algerian Revolution. Fanon uses soldiers’ first person accounts, as well as his own psychological and medical training, to explore the impact of the war and its tactics on the individual psychologies, the familial relationships, and the social dynamics of the Algerian people, arguing that the damage and horrors of war and colonialism have placed the Algerians and the French in a new relational mode.
Back in the spring, I read and did a critical comparative analysis on both Cressida J. Heyes’ Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies, and Dr. Sami Schalk’s BODYMINDS REIMAGINED: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Each of these texts aims to explore conceptions of modes of embodied being, and the ways the exterior pressure of societal norms impacts what are seen as “normal” or “acceptable” bodies.
For Heyes, that exploration takes the form of three case studies: The hermeneutics of transgender individuals, especially trans women; the “Askeses” (self-discipline practices) of organized weight loss dieting programs; and “Attempts to represent the subjectivity of cosmetic surgery patients.” Schalk’s site of interrogation is Black women speculative fiction authors and the ways in which their writing illuminates new understandings of race, gender, and what Schalk terms “(dis)ability.
Both Heyes and Schalk focus on popular culture and they both center gender as a valence of investigation because the embodied experience of women in western society is the crux point for multiple intersecting pressures.
Protestors stand at the intersection of Mountain and College Ave. in Old Town Ft. Collins to fight against Rape Culture. Photograph taken by Megan Fischer
Today –Monday December 8th – in Ft. Collins, the decision on the Andre Alders case was made, allowing an alleged rapist to walk free. In response to the decision, an immediate protest took place organized by a few people who had been following…
The photograph above, used for shitty attempts at click baiting an article on Billboard.com about the singing competition show THE VOICE, displays the three female judges who have been a part of the show at different times. Two of the artists, Shakira and Christina Aguilera, are Latina, yet the show has managed to eerily morph all three of these stars images into what is virtually the same…
The photograph above, used for
