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Identity & gender identity

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Are Americans Obsessed with Race and Gender? | Middle Ground

A group of young Americans from various racial and gender backgrounds discuss some of the most controversial topics regarding racial and gender identity and discrimination.

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Can We Choose Our Own Identity?

Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?

Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Roxane Gay: Confessions of a Bad Feminist

When writer Roxane Gay dubbed herself a “bad feminist,” she was making a joke, acknowledging that she couldn’t possibly live up to the demands for perfection of the feminist movement. But she’s realized that the joke rang hollow.

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Fairest: A Memoir

Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction “Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.” —The New York Times Book Review “A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival.

Meredith Talusan

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I Am

To capture the evolving ways in which we describe ourselves, we asked readers to tell us who they are. More than 5,000 people responded. The words they used show us that ‘the human experience is infinite.’

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Saeed Jones

In this clip from Overheard, poet and author Saeed Jones discusses the process of discovering his identity.

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Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world’s politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges.

Francis Fukuyama

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Saeed Jones on Growing Up Black and Gay in the South | Xtra

Xtra’s senior editor Eternity Martis spoke to Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight For Our Lives, about writing, self-care, protest and how people of colour and LGBTQ2 folks can fight for their lives in the Trump era.

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Saeed Jones: Writing Yourself Out of “The Room”

In this clip from Overheard, poet and author Saeed Jones talks about why he wrote his memoir, “How We Fight for Our Lives.”

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Range of Gender Identities

Everyone has a gender identity—a feeling or sense of being male, female or somewhere in between. Sometimes people’s gender identity matches their bodies, and sometimes it does not.

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