Crocker redefines masculinity

Intersecting identities can be indistinguishable and overlapping when attempting to analyze one person's identity. Chris Crocker's controversial, yet declarative, vlog updates redefine a gay man's role. Though embellished with comedic remarks, Crocker's vlogs entail aspects of his upbringing while he challenges the femininity often connected to homosexuality. To see more of Crocker's vlogs visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/itschriscrocker

"Beauty - Femininity with Masculinity"

http://www.thestudmagazine.com/interpretation

-One woman's reflections on the development of her gender identity as a "stud".   She describes the way her gender presentation was influenced by black male stereotypes and her conceptions of queerness.  Click on the picture of the person in the backwards baseball cap for the story to drop down (you might have to click one of the arrows in the picture window to see her).  From Stud Magazine: "An online based magazine founded in Toronto with an aim to redefine the term stud and introduce non gender conforming people to mainstream media."  It's short, simple, and a great example of the intersectionality exercise we did in last week's class.

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One more thing.....Disney Genders

If you need a study break anytime soon, here are some silly videos to continue our conversation about gender roles, children's media and the kinds of relationships they promote:

And here's the toy video from today's class:

If your looking for more of her videos (they're great), check out feministfrequency

This Guy Probably Changed My Life

So James Darling is a queer porn star and in most of this interview he is talking about his role in porn as a queer transman and his sexuality (in REALLY interesting ways), but around 2:30 he starts talking about "becoming a man" and his feminist identity in a way that I think is SUPER relevant to what came up in discussion today. Check it out if you have time and let me know what you think:

Also, this is a great interview where he answers some pretty direct questions about his gender identity and his thoughts about gender, privilege, and queer theory in general for a "Law and Sexuality" class:

Sex and Gender

Hey y'all.
  Here's links to some of the information in the hand outs from today in case you want to refer back to them later or are looking for more information:

Gender/sex

Intersex

Transgender

Expanded Cisgender Privilege Checklist and extra definitions

xoxo
audrey

Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon

Hey y'all:

I wanted to share an inspiring article on the goals and methods of Consciousness-Raising. I think it's a great introduction to the class.

Enjoy!

-Audrey

Welcome!

Hello beautiful people,

Welcome to the blog for the Women's Consciousness Raising Group. On this blog, we will post links to articles, videos, poems, resources, and other blogs that relate to our class topics.  Feel free to use this as a forum to comment about anything that sparks your interest.

Below are links to a few of our favorite blogs to get you started. Enjoy!
Jezebel
Feministing
Ms Magazine
Autostraddle

With love love love,
Rudi, Danielle, Audrey