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BBC Three: #SORRYNOTSORRY for the Way We Look —Harnaam Kaur

By Harnaam Kaur — 2017

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Harnaam Kaur gathers together inspiring examples, to speak on the topic of individuality and the power that comes from being yourself, regardless of others opinions. See more...

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Welcome to Body Week

We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children―boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks―we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it.

The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

Is our gender something we’re born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs.

Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity

In this “refreshing and radical” (The Guardian) narrative, Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden.

Thomas Page McBee

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.

Interview: Lewis Howes | Redefining Masculinity

Today, Lewis Howes has peeled back the layers of his own masks and has a deep desire to show others how to do the same.

Meet the Neuroscientist Shattering the Myth of the Gendered Brain

Why asking whether your brain is male or female is the wrong question

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