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Gender - Coggle Diagram
Gender
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Through education and awareness, the implementation of additional genders has been possible.
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Human bodies have been oppressed into following assigned binary categories since the beginning of time.
Although difficult, individuals have been able to break the traditional societal norms!
Drag-kings, for example, do not use proper marking of sex and are able to produce new ways of considering sex and theater (Halberstam 119).
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In Judith Halberstam's "Gender", it is mentioned how gender has been used to cover up one's actions. One acts according to their gender, what Halberstam refers to as "performativity" instead of living freely and letting the gender be labeled according to THEM.
This concept is very eye-opening to me; do we behave a certain way because we want to or because society has said this how a "female" or a "male" must behave?
Every aspect of society, from political to ideological, has been oppressed due to gender confinement (Halberstam 119).
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Halberstam mentions that society is way too deep in the assigned gender confinement to break free from it.
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