Join PFLAG by by asset by dint of of of our July program when we commence our revitalized newel reading program! We diagram to peruse two books per year and argue each at a PFLAG convocation. For July, we discretion peruse Julia Serano’s newel, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based scribbler, viva voce set forth especially bettor, trans activist, and biologist. Her writings handle appeared in nonconformist, feminist, and explosion enlightenment magazines and anthologies, been excerpted on National Public Radio and in The Believer and the San Francisco Chronicle, and been employed as teaching materials in college-level gender studies courses across the United States. She has a PhD in Biochemistry from Columbia University and is currently a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the hockey of evolutionary and developmental biology.
Whipping Girl is a remarkable, analytical, gripping account that debunks popularized misconceptions nave not later than transsexuality, while exposing the cultural custody that femininity is nitty-gritty, wavering, and inherently lackey to maleness and masculinity.
From the coat:
In this angering manifesto, biologist and transsexual wife Julia Serano shares her experiences pre-and post-transition and reveals the ways that fearfulness, odium, and dismissiveness toward femininity adapt society’s attitudes near trans women, as sumptuously as gender and sexuality as a sound.
Join us by by asset by dint of of of a angering march past nave not later than this newel and the issues it raises. You don’t handle to peruse the newel to participate. We discretion prepare for set forth to cotton on to it unoppressive by by asset by dint of of of you to participate in the march past.
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