Anonymous #1 3w

Or/especially those who just started learning gender theory and think they know everything

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Anonymous #2 3w

Can you recommend some books plz

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Anonymous #3 3w

it's not gender theory, but if you're not in queer Indigenous spaces please read Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. it gives important perspective on how Indigenous culture intersects with queerness. Not a book, but Philosophy Tube's video on Judith Butler is fire. I'll go gather a pdf of the readings from my Intro to LGBT Studies class and share that here when i have the time.

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Anonymous #2 3w

“gender is fake” - 🚩 drives me crazy when people think “social construct” = “fake” and it’s often really difficult to correct. it’s like saying “money is just made up” to a poor person, their entire life is controlled by very real power structures around the concept of money (like trans peoples around gender).

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Anonymous #2 3w

also like ultimately, these people generally don’t also realize that sex is socially constructed, so ironically their politics end very similar to transphobes (gender is made up/fake/all in your head, sex is real and immutable).

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Anonymous #3 3w

always the two at the top of my list are “the invention of women” by oyewumi and “histories of the transgender child” by gill-peterson. both books are super accessible and transformative reads. other books in that direction are are gender trouble (butler), whipping girl (serrano), women, race, and class (davis), and black on both sides (snorton).

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