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Gender Across Borders (GAB) is an international feminist community where issues of gender, race, sexuality, and class are discussed and critically examined. We embrace people of all backgrounds to come together to voice and progress positive gender relations worldwide.
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Gender Across Borders a global feminist blog

English - Feminism, International, Women
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Gender Across Borders · 3W ago

Start Improving the World: Goodbye, Gender Across Borders

It gives me great sadness to tell you that Gender Across Borders will stop publishing after today, April 30, 2012. Not only have we posted the latest global feminist news and issues, but we've also provided a space for people to discuss global feminism for the past three years.
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Gender Across Borders · 3W ago

Global Feminist Link Love: April 21 – 27

Hello all you Global Feminists! Below are a list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists have been up to this past week. But we also want to know: what have you been reading/writing this week? Share your own link love in the comments! For more gender justice news, c
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Gender Across Borders · 3W ago

Male, female, hetero, homo: does the binarism really exist or are we making it up?

Each time we want to discuss sexual orientation, we turn to people who identify themselves as LGBT. By doing so we are in a way accepting that heterosexuality is the norm (hence, the “normality”) and homo/bisexuality the exception. That is, there is something ab-normal that we need to explain/contro
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Gender Across Borders · 3W ago

Essentialism, constructionism, and why I like plaid

I have no idea why I’m queer. Like most people who identify as straight, gay or anything in between, I experienced a range of sexual desires in my teenage years. I was often nervous and scared about sexuality, which seemed much more complicated to me than it was “supposed” to be. I was attracted to
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Gender Across Borders · 3W ago

Understanding my sexuality through queer theory

My junior year of college, I read Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence.” In it, Rich talks about a “lesbian continuum” and the idea that intimate activities between women, even when non-romantic or non-sexual, challenge the norm of heterosexism. When I look back an
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Gender Across Borders · 4W ago

Dangers of identity politics: does science hold all the answers?

“I don’t care that you’re a faggot, just stay away from me.” It remains painful that these were the most memorable words said to me on my high school Austrian exchange trip my senior year. I was in the gymnasium locker room with the other boys of our program and I had just made an offhanded complime
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Gender Across Borders · 4W ago

Profile of a “Gaysian”

“I have always been gay,” says Johnson Ngo. “But, I did not realize I was gay until I was a teenager.” Ngo, 24, is a artist in Toronto, Ontario. With richly saturated and gloriously shiny black hair, reaching past his shoulders, Ngo regularly gets mistaken for a girl. He wears large frame glasses,
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Gender Across Borders · 4W ago

“Yes I am too, but am I really?” On queerness and socialization.

Sexual orientation can be regarded as a latent disposition that is present in an individual all along. It depends, however, on the ability of ‘escaping’ cultural inclinations of gender norms and value systems whether or not a person will actually go on to identify as LGBT. On the other hand, other s
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Gender Across Borders · 4W ago

Welcome to the series “Born this way? The role of the nature vs nurture debate in sexual identity formation and acceptance”!

The question of what ‘causes’ homosexuality has been preoccupying widely ranging scientific fields and scientists: from medicine and neuroscience to cultural and behavioral studies. Is sexual orientation a simple variable that is determined before birth, or is it influenced by environmental and surr
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Gender Across Borders · 4W ago

Unpacking my daddy issues

While completing the business visa application form for India recently, I was highly disturbed by one of the questions and the implications that come with it. The first question was basic enough, as one would expect. It asked for your names - first, last, and middle. It is the question that followed
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