College Fail
Nov. 16th, 2010 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salienneSo today in Feminist and Queer Theory, we covered transsexuality.
And the readings for today, theorizing about transsexuality?
Not a single one was written by someone trans.
Instead, we had three cis feminists write a) something horribly offensive (so offensive that the girl writing up a presentation noticed and chose to rebut it, even though we really don't do that in write-ups), b) something absolutely useless, and c) something I didn't get a chance to read, but from the in-class presentation on it, was both a) and c).
Seriously, the conversation is going to be pretty faily anyway because we're a bunch of cis women talking about trans issues with a cis man guest prof, but to not have a single reading written by a trans theorist?
ffs.
ETA: Come to think of it, I don't think we read the writings of a single intersex person when we covered intersexuality.
...
ffs!
And the readings for today, theorizing about transsexuality?
Not a single one was written by someone trans.
Instead, we had three cis feminists write a) something horribly offensive (so offensive that the girl writing up a presentation noticed and chose to rebut it, even though we really don't do that in write-ups), b) something absolutely useless, and c) something I didn't get a chance to read, but from the in-class presentation on it, was both a) and c).
Seriously, the conversation is going to be pretty faily anyway because we're a bunch of cis women talking about trans issues with a cis man guest prof, but to not have a single reading written by a trans theorist?
ffs.
ETA: Come to think of it, I don't think we read the writings of a single intersex person when we covered intersexuality.
...
ffs!
