August 20, 2022
The Trees Have Eyes
Craig Walsh’s Monuments is a site-responsive, outdoor video installation… (that) evokes a haunting synergy between the human form, natural environment, and the act of viewing. Night-time projections transform trees into sculptural monuments, surveying the immediate environment.
What if we just said: “Here we are, we don’t want to be harmed.”
Andrea Long Chu talks to gender studies and political science scholar Paisley Currah about trans rights, official definitions of gender and his new book Sex Is as Sex Does.
When Currah was on a NYC Dept of Health committee to figure out a new birth certificate policy, at one point the committee had agreed to define sex by gender identity. The city was like, “No, that won’t work for prisons,” or “Yes, it will work for homeless services,” or “It’ll kind of work for drug rehab but not for the facilities that are residential.” The city just cared about how sex was operationalized, what effect it would have on the government, and not the fact that sex as a biological concept is really messy.
When Currah was on a NYC Dept of Health committee to figure out a new birth certificate policy, at one point the committee had agreed to define sex by gender identity. The city was like, “No, that won’t work for prisons,” or “Yes, it will work for homeless services,” or “It’ll kind of work for drug rehab but not for the facilities that are residential.” The city just cared about how sex was operationalized, what effect it would have on the government, and not the fact that sex as a biological concept is really messy.
Here’s why HBO Max is pulling dozens of films and TV series
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