Stalking the Gender Unicorn: World Sexual Health Day 2024
Stalking the Gender Unicorn: World Sexual Health Day 2024
Introduction to Women's Studies | 4 September 2024
Welcome back, gender unicorn stalkers.
How is the mission to disambiguate “sex” and “gender” coming on your end?
I noticed the words “sex” and “gender” slipping all over the place on the telecast of the 2024 Democratic National Committee convention in Chicago a couple of weeks ago.
I heard lots of mentions of “women and girls.”
I heard lots of language like “no matter who you love” and “our children and who they are.”
Of note: Ashley Biden’s Violence Against Women Act birthday story in her introduction to her Dad’s baton-pass speech.
Whitehouse.gov is a good place to observe and explore contemporary usage of the words “sex,” “women,” and “gender”:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/13/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-celebrates-the-twenty-ninth-anniversary-of-the-violence-against-women-act/
Documents update
The case study of Audrey Hale, aka “Aiden,” “the Covenant shooter,” “the Nashville shooter”
I read it. As a Tennesseean, a veteran feminist, and a gender unicorn stalker, I felt bound.
It is awful and it is sad. It is a document created by a psycho-socially fragile young woman with a childlike pornographic imagination spinning out in graphically clear homosexual torment.
How did this young woman manage to arm up with an AR-15? In her tortured ravings, she can barely deal with getting out of bed to pee.
I agree with Matt Osborne (linked above): “Hale’s manifesto is a reckoning all around.”
This just in via the Cambridge Union YouTube Channel
The Intro to Women’s Studies mutual respect, mutual consent, and mutual pleasure working group and the College of the Alien Information Theory Debating Society recommend
This House Believes the Internet Has Ruined Sex
YouTube playlist of the full debate
Cambridge Union
May 2024 / Posted September 2024
Sweet Campus Gender Stalking Days of Yore
Susie “Sexpert” Bright recalls her days as a campus circuit rider, reports from her longitudinal study, and invites you to take her pop quiz
I attended Susie’s 1994 University of Michigan lecture with a grad school gal squad, then was pleased to present and host her at Newcomb (Tulane) in 1998 and 2008.
I had not appreciated before today how it was Susie’s Newcomb engagements that bookended that entire era.
Furthermore, gender stalkers
From the reading lists of Introduction to Women’s Studies
Mann, A. (2023, April 12). Re-imagining the CLITORIS: A more Clitorate World, an illustrated guide. Medium. https://medium.com/@alakinamann/re-imagining-the-clitorisa-more-clitorate-world-an-illustrated-guide-61420ed5f773
Our Bodies Ourselves Today. (2022, August 8). Our bodies, ourselves: The nine U.S. editions. Boston Women’s Health Collective, Our Bodies Ourselves Today. https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/about-us/our-history/publications/our-bodies-ourselves-the-nine-u-s-editions
Pussyhat Project. (2020, October 6). PUSSYHAT PROJECTTM. Retrieved June 25, 2024, from https://www.pussyhatproject.com/
Rosy Wellness, Inc. (2020, October 18). Viva la vulva Coloring sheet. Meet Rosy. https://meetrosy.com/resources/vulva-coloring-sheet
Rosy Wellness, Inc. (2023, June 12). Color the clitoris coloring sheet. Meet Rosy. https://meetrosy.com/resources/clitoris-coloring-sheet
Especially
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FUN FACT
The theme of World Sexual Health Day (Wednesday 4 September 2024) is “Relationships.”