901 Quotes About Gender

look for the women in the roomwho have less space than youlistenhear themand act on what they’re saying- amplify indigenous. trans. black. brown. women of color voices

The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results. And it shows us that we not only should not try to assimilate trans women into a category that remains the same, but that the category itself has to change so it does not simply reflect normative ideas of who counts as women and who doesn’t.

As for why... I didn't want to admit that I was female. It wasn't that I wanted to be a boy, more like I hated the whole idea of belonging to a gender... That somehow before I was ''me'' I was a ''woman'', like I was scared of being overly defined by those expectations, I guess...

Perkawinan adalah membangun relasi dua pihak. Namun perkawinan yang tidak sehat akan berkembang ke arah relasi kuasa berbasis status gender yang sangat berpotensi menindas. Anggapan dan pembenaran bahwa suami merupakan kepala keluarga sering meleset dimaknai sebagai penguasa keluarga.

The shades of gender in her voice were intricate, like mine.

There's a real simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sands of a culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, "On this side, you are a man; on this side, you are a woman." It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

And then I found out that gender can have fluidity , which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.

Do we only have gender neuter architecture now? Does a particular system of mental distinction, in use for the best part of two millennia, cease simply because the metaphors in which it was presented have become unsuitable?

Jika secara budaya perempuan senantiasa dijejali narasi bahwa kalau tidak memenuhi kewajibannya (dalam hubungan seks) atau tidak memberikan servis yang terbaik  kepada suaminya maka akan ada perempuan lain yang antri, tentu saja konsep pemaksaan hubungan seks akan dihapus dari laci kesadarannya.