Gender is a range of characteristics of femininity, masculinity and others described as third gender. Depending on the context, the describing characteristics vary from sex to social roles (gender roles) to gender identity. The academic interdisciplinary field gender studies focuses on gender. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word "gender" to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Today, the distinction is strictly followed in some contexts, like medicine,social sciences, feminist literature, documents written by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and in some dictionaries, but in many contexts, even in some areas of social sciences, the meaning of gender has expanded to include "sex" or even to replace the latter word. Although this gradual change in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s, a small acceleration of the process in the scientific literature was observed when the Food and Drug Administration started to use "gender" instead of "sex" in 1993. "Gender" is now commonly used even to refer to the physiology of non-human animals, without any implication of social gender roles.
Ivan Elizabeth Coyote (born Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada in 1969) is a Canadian spoken word performer and writer.
Coyote began performing spoken word in 1992. They joined Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000 and has since had seven books published with them. They regularly combine story telling and music, and have worked with a number of musicians including Veda Hille, Dan Mangan and Rae Spoon. They have been a columnist for the gay magazines Xtra! and Xtra! West for a number of years.
Coyote has been Writer-in-Residence of a number of organisations, including Carleton University in 2007,Vancouver Public Library in 2009, and in 2011 will take up the post at the University of Winnipeg.
Coyote does not believe in the gender binary and uses gender neutral pronouns.
Rae Spoon is a Canadian transgender country and indie singer-songwriter. Spoon's breakthrough album, 2008's Superioryouareinferior, was recorded in Calgary and introduced some electronic music elements into Spoon's style.
Rae Spoon was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised by evangelical Christian parents.
After a decade of living as a trans man, Spoon came out as "they" in 2012 during an interview with cartoonist Elisha Lim, a fellow advocate for the gender-neutral pronoun. Spoon explained to Now Magazine, "after years of fighting to be called ‘he,’ the idea of coming out again made me tired. But now I feel kind of rejuvenated, ready to fight on some more. I think the ‘they’ pronoun is a pretty cool thing. It’s letting a lot of people not have to identify as a man or a woman. Whatever it means to them.”
They will also be publishing a book of short stories about growing up in Alberta, with Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2012.
Spoon has performed with such artists as Annabelle Chvostek, Ember Swift, Kinnie Starr, Melissa Ferrick, The Be Good Tanyas, Bitch & Animal, Natalie Merchant and Earl Scruggs.
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, for a dissertation subsequently published as Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. In the late-1980s she held several teaching/research appointments, and was involved in "post-structuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of feminism.
Her research ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war. Her most recent work focuses on Jewish philosophy, exploring pre- and post-Zionist criticisms of state violence. Politically, she is a strong supporter of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
I wish I was infinite and given my way
I'd be so fucking cool
When I'm feeling the rush
I look at you through different eyes
I never knew my thoughts televise what you think
I'm the twin inside you
It's hard to believe what you say
Unaccepting what you've tried to show us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
Refreshing your memories of times we've known
Constantly stumbling over reason
Where do these words go now so true
Covering no one else but you devour every modern day
It's hard to believe what you say
Unaccepting what you've tried to show us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
Fell away in my dizziness I'm blinding
I wish I was obedient aren't I something
I'll never be rational I'm finding
My way to everyone in this velvet sky of mine
Boredom does nothing for me so why does it follow
Walking with deadbeats down the street i want everything
I'll be your idol Be your maker your everything
Your dirty dream designer