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New Project! We need your help! 8 Oct 2012 | 03:00 pm
Greetings, fellow feminists! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us–since GAB officially closed up shop back in April–but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been thinking of new ways to advance the fe...
Start Improving the World: Goodbye, Gender Across Borders 30 Apr 2012 | 10:00 pm
It gives me great sadness to tell you that Gender Across Borders will stop publishing after today, April 30, 2012. Not only have we posted the latest global feminist news and issues, but we've also pr...
Global Feminist Link Love: April 21 – 27 29 Apr 2012 | 01:00 am
Hello all you Global Feminists! Below are a list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists have been up to this past week. But we also want to know: what have you been ...
Male, female, hetero, homo: does the binarism really exist or are we making it up? 28 Apr 2012 | 04:00 pm
Each time we want to discuss sexual orientation, we turn to people who identify themselves as LGBT. By doing so we are in a way accepting that heterosexuality is the norm (hence, the “normality”) and ...
Essentialism, constructionism, and why I like plaid 28 Apr 2012 | 01:00 pm
I have no idea why I’m queer. Like most people who identify as straight, gay or anything in between, I experienced a range of sexual desires in my teenage years. I was often nervous and scared about ...
Understanding my sexuality through queer theory 28 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
My junior year of college, I read Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence.” In it, Rich talks about a “lesbian continuum” and the idea that intimate activities between wo...
Dangers of identity politics: does science hold all the answers? 28 Apr 2012 | 07:00 am
“I don’t care that you’re a faggot, just stay away from me.” It remains painful that these were the most memorable words said to me on my high school Austrian exchange trip my senior year. I was in th...
Profile of a “Gaysian” 28 Apr 2012 | 04:00 am
“I have always been gay,” says Johnson Ngo. “But, I did not realize I was gay until I was a teenager.” Ngo, 24, is a artist in Toronto, Ontario. With richly saturated and gloriously shiny black hair,...
“Yes I am too, but am I really?” On queerness and socialization. 28 Apr 2012 | 01:00 am
Sexual orientation can be regarded as a latent disposition that is present in an individual all along. It depends, however, on the ability of ‘escaping’ cultural inclinations of gender norms and value...
Welcome to the series “Born this way? The role of the nature vs nurture debate in sexual identity formation and acceptance”! 28 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
The question of what ‘causes’ homosexuality has been preoccupying widely ranging scientific fields and scientists: from medicine and neuroscience to cultural and behavioral studies. Is sexual orientat...
