Listening to Bowie today, and "You've got your mother in a whirl/She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl" is especially pertinent. For #PrideMonth2021, my essays for FEMINIST GIANT focus on queerness. This is the first one for this month.
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"She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl"
From the age of 3, my mother kept my hair v short. When I moved to London in 1975 at 7yo, the first time I went downstairs to play with the other kids, they asked me if I was a boy or a girl. #PrideMonth2021
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From the age of 3, my mother kept my hair v short. When I moved to London in 1975 at 7yo, the first time I went downstairs to play with the other kids, they asked me if I was a boy or a girl. #PrideMonth2021
feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ki…
Why did it take me so long to learn that Hatshepsut - who for more than 20 years was the most powerful person in the ancient world - alternated pronouns? She/he/they.
Are you a girl? Are you a boy? #PrideMonth2021
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Are you a girl? Are you a boy? #PrideMonth2021
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Was Hatshepsut a boy or a girl?
It depends on who was doing the digging, because as Kim Armstrong writes in Making Queer History, “the social biases of historians shape history.” #Pride notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egy…
It depends on who was doing the digging, because as Kim Armstrong writes in Making Queer History, “the social biases of historians shape history.” #Pride notchesblog.com/2017/04/11/egy…
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