du vendredi 07 octobre 2005 au dimanche 09 octobre
2005
Transgressing Gender Conference. Two is not enough for
gender
(e)quality
Society's concepts of sex and gender must be
challenged. These concepts
are
more fluid now than they have ever been. However, as
the struggle for
gender
equality and freedom of gender expression intensifies,
communities that
could be working together are becoming more and more
divided. What does
it
mean for the sisterhood of feminism when someone who
was born with
testicles, someone who will never menstruate, wants to
be accepted as
one of
their own? Can someone assigned male at birth ever
really be a woman?
What
should be done when a baby is born with "ambiguous"
genitalia?
Furthermore,
is gender socially constructed, or wired into our
brains? Can an
androgynous
person actually exist in a gender-free identity? Can a
man with a
vagina
really call himself a man? And what does all this mean
on the larger
scale
of human rights? Is gender in and of itself a human
rights issue? These
questions seem to be affecting communities all over
the globe and we
want
some answers. And so, we bring you theTransgressing
Gender Conference:
Two
is not enough for gender
(e)quality.
For more information and updates about the conference,
and an
application
for financial support please visit
http://www.tgenderzagreb.com
or email GenderZagreb2005@???
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