The audience of the webinar were mainly therapists, likely with a specialism in couples therapy and began with a land acknowledgement from Jennifer Hollinshead of the counselling service Peak Resilience hosting the session. She encouraged us to visit the land acknowledgement website she was reading from, so that we too can learn tribe names we can’t pronounce. Gender and sex was intricately linked to colonialism, she told us, and these tribes had a much more diverse gender system than ours (I don’t see how though, when we have at least a gazillion). The gender binary had been used to suppress peasant uprisings in Europe. The money raised from the seminar would go to an indigenous women’s group in Vancouver (I note from the blurb the term ‘self-identifying’ is used) and what sounded like a BLM-type justice project in LA. Neither project are registered charities, nor appear to have any governance in place.
Category: Academics
‘Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger’
Stryker said Manning was the example of a queer trans person who had experienced the most brutal of all marginalisations. With such sophistry it is easy to forget that Manning is responsible for illegally sharing over 700,000 military documents which will have aided the West’s enemies.
‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ – UCL Institute for Global Health dumbs down for IWD
Note the faux folksy language and the cutesy drop of blood. About this event For IWD 2022, UCL’s Institute for Global Health will be hosting
Cambridge Uni presents a ‘TERF Grammar Book’
About this event ‘Sex is Real,’ and other Gender Critical Non Sequiturs: A TERF Grammar Book Dr Jacob Breslow, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality,
‘The science of LGBTQ+ identities: tensions and common misconceptions’
About the event Scientists have been trying to understand and classify variance in human sexual orientation and gender identity since the 19th century. More than
Webinar on ‘Camming: Money, Power and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry’
Jones claims that she is a former sex worker, though naturally enough was short on any further details, and sounded curiously removed from the peoples’ lives she was discussing. She cheerfully told the students that camming reproduces a system of oppression, like heterosexism, sexism and ableism, which oppresses people. On the other hand, cammers reported ‘high rates of job satisfaction and experiences of pleasure’. Good rates of pay were also possible, she promised, but wanted to emphasise that doing the job wasn’t ‘just about money’, describing the global expansion of this sex industry as ‘exciting times’ and that sex workers had always been at the forefront of improving human sexual pleasure.
The Lies They Tell 
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