Culture and Identity: Situating the Individual
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Mary Gonzalez broke barriers ... when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives.
Now... Gonzalez is..., telling the Dallas Voice that she ... identifies herself as "pansexual." As ThinkProgress notes, Gonzalez's admission makes her perhaps the only openly pansexual elected U.S. official.
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Gonzalez specified to the Voice that she doesn’t believe in a gender binary because “gender identity isn’t the defining part of my attraction," and that she never fully embraced the term "lesbian." Although she came out as bisexual at age 21, Gonzalez said she has also dated transgender and gender-queer people, in addition to women. Read the full story here.
Now... Gonzalez is..., telling the Dallas Voice that she ... identifies herself as "pansexual." As ThinkProgress notes, Gonzalez's admission makes her perhaps the only openly pansexual elected U.S. official.
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Gonzalez specified to the Voice that she doesn’t believe in a gender binary because “gender identity isn’t the defining part of my attraction," and that she never fully embraced the term "lesbian." Although she came out as bisexual at age 21, Gonzalez said she has also dated transgender and gender-queer people, in addition to women. Read the full story here.
A book on Identity in the 21st Century!
Listen to an interview with the author below or read the transcript and an excerpt from the book here:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137627842/who-are-we-how-we-identify-ourselves-and-others
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/05/137627842/who-are-we-how-we-identify-ourselves-and-others
Stereotyping for fun and profit....
On his Native Appropriations blog Adrienne K. writes about how painful it is to have negative stereotypes of Native Americans used, in this day and age, to create a party atmosphere for a hugely profitable event. Check the blog article at: Paul Frank offends every Native person on the planet with Fashion Night Out "Dream Catchin' Pow wow"