Dead Wild Roses: reading Judith Butler

Gender Troubled… tastethespring Reader, I did it.  I sat down and read ‘Gender Trouble.’  NB, trigger warning.  It helps to read Sheila Jeffreys’ Unpacking Queer Politics first to ground yourself in love for lesbians, especially if you are one. Butler’s avowed aim from beginning to end and throughout the book, is

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Dead Wild Roses: “Cis” Gender

Critical Blogging Cisgender: of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth. — Merriam-Webster Gender Identity: the totality of physical and behavioral traits that are designated by a culture as masculine or feminine  a person’s internal sense of

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