"Many of us live in a world that is firmly based on the Western binary construction of gender and sex, which, along with heteronormativity, leads to systemic oppression and structural discrimination of women and anyone who does not conform, and therefore poses a threat to the patriarchy.

These social constructs uphold unjust power structures, like other categories of identity, such as race, class and caste."

https://www.feministaffirmation.org/letter

#genderbinary #biologicalessentialism #decolonize #abolition

AABA Statement in Support of Trans Lives

"The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, the Dental Anthropology Association, the Paleopathology Association, The PaleoAnthropology Society, the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association, and the Human Biology Association stand together against the escalating legislation and governance in the United States and across the globe that attacks the existence of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse peoples. We affirm the power of all persons to make the ultimate decisions over what happens to our/their own bodies. We oppose legislation that is rooted in and maintains rigid binary conceptions of sex and gender which impact reproductive justice and access to care for everyone. We condemn the biological essentialism driving much of this legislation. As biological anthropologists, we condemn the historical role of our discipline in producing binaries of sex, gender, and sexuality and are committed to work that enacts a more livable world. ..."

https://bioanth.org/about/position-statements/aaba-statement-in-support-of-trans-lives/

#anthropology #biology #TransIsBeautiful #Trans #GenderDiversity #BiologicalEssentialism #BiologicalDiversity

Session we did on #BiologicalEssentialism as key feature of #StructuralRacism w/ @[email protected] residents today was 🔥. Residents are ++ impressive.

We used Rana Hogarth's work on 1793 YF epidemic in Philly, paired w/ @[email protected]'s essentialism essay in @[email protected].