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Gender Issues

  1. An LGBTQ Suicide-Hotline Volunteer on Talking to Trans Youth in Trump’s America“The biggest thing I’ve learned is that it makes such a difference for them to just have a safe place to talk.”
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    Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That.The radical theorist who spawned a gender-queer nation — and became a pop celebrity in the process.
  3. gender issues
    Women Who Show Anger Are Taken Less SeriouslyIt undermines their argument, while the opposite is true for men. 
  4. trans rights
    Smith College Will Now Admit Trans WomenA historic policy change for the women’s college.
  5. gender issues
    The Next Season of ABC’s The Bachelorette Will Be a Deathmatch Two women, one true love.
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    What Even Our Best Blockbusters Are Still Getting Wrong About WomenJust look at Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
  7. movies
    Movies That Pass the Bechdel Test Perform BetterGender equality is good for business. 
  8. old people
    Study: Actresses Get Less Valuable After Age 34This research on gender, age, income, and Hollywood is a bummer.
  9. gender studies
    Germany No Longer Requires Gender Assignment at BirthGermany is Europe’s first country to not mandate gender assignments for newborns.
  10. gender issues
    Transgender Newsman Don Ennis Has Second Thoughts After ‘Amnesia’He’s identifying as a man again.
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    Are Summer Movies Getting Any Better For Women?We’ve got a few new movies coming out starring women, but why have there been so few until now?
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    The Wolverine Is This Summer’s Bechdel-Friendly BlockbusterA rarity among action movies this summer, The Wolverine has four primary female characters. Director James Mangold explains.
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    There Isn’t Much Room for Women in the Future of Pacific RimWhy Pacific Rim isn’t quite the female-friendly movie we’d hoped.
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    Boardwalk Empire’s Lady ProblemThere’s one well-developed female character, and three mostly naked ones.
  15. equal-arty
    Saltz on Art’s Triumph: Women Win Slim Majority in Next Whitney BiennialThis will prove once and for all that women artists are no better and no worse than their male counterparts.