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(Re)producing sex/gender normativities: LGB alliance, political whiteness and heteroactivism

by Helen ClarkePublished online: 21 Jan 2024LGB Alliance, as a prime example of gender-critical feminism, argues that the ‘sex-based’ rights of those who are ‘same-sex attracted’ are threatened by the inclusion of trans individuals, and trans lesbians especially. In seeking to exclude trans women

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Artificial intelligibility: the role of gender in assigning humanness to natural language processing systems

by Jenny Carla MoranPublished online: 06 May 2024In place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, this article proposes artificial intelligibility as the more accurate term for describing the mistaken assignment of humanness to non-living objects. Artificial Intelligibility is manifested when a user assumes

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The teaching body in sexuality education – intersections of age, gender, and sexuality

On September 23, 2023 the international magazine Sex Education published the paper written by Rebecka Fingalsson entitled "The teaching body in sexuality education - intersections of age, gender, and sexuality".The paper illustrates how teachers are influenced by age, gender, and sexuality in

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Improving legal responses to counter femicide in the European Union: Perspectives from victims and professionals

The European Institute for Gender Equality published its latest report on feminicides on the 7th February 2023, which sheds light on this phenomenon that is still so pervasive in our societies.Feminicide, commonly known as the killing of a woman because of gender, is the most extreme form of gender

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Who is afraid of Gender ?

The Center for Gender Studies of the University of Cambridge recently announced that it has made available on YouTube the lecture held on April 26 by professor and writer Judith Butler on the theme of resistance and fears in our societies against of gender issues.Judith Butler is an American post

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