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Below you’ll find our most recent entries.  If you know of a good example of the rhetoric of gender identity we should consider including, please share it with us by commenting on this post.


Crossing Borders

Discourse:  News    Medium:  hypertext

Digital Version: <http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/15/australian-passports-now-offer-gender-option-x-for-intersex-people/?iref=allsearch>.

 Citation:  Simon, Mallory. “Australian Passports Now Offer Gender Option ‘X’ for Intersex People – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs.” This Just In – CNN.com Blogs. CNN, 15 Sept. 2011. Web. 15 Sept. 2011. <http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/15/australian-passports-now-offer-gender-option-x-for-intersex-people/?iref=allsearch>.

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My Secret Self

Discourse:  personal experience    Medium:  moving image

Digital Version:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpam0IGYac

Citation:  <20/20 “My Secret Self” Part 1 of 5 – YouTube.”  YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.  04 May 2007.  Web. 03 Oct 2011.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utpam0IGYac>

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Finding Your Community

Discourse:  Education/Activism  Medium: moving image

Digital Version:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_70EA2lLTU

Citation: “Gender Identity Support in Denver.”  Colorado Outspoken.   PBS KBDI-TV .  March 2007. Television.

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Prescribing Gender, Psychology MD on Fox News

DIGITAL VERSION

This is an older story that really caused a media storm over the summer.  Instead of covering the reports of the story in the news, I decided to focus on an Op-Ed written for FoxNews.com, labeled as a “Health” article.  It is authored by Dr. Keith Ablow, an MD in Psychology.  You can read the article here.

Who’d have know this would be such a big deal?

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Genderqueer Tumblr

DIGITAL VERSION

This artifact is less of an artifact and more of a living thing.  It is constantly changing and growing, but still roots itself strongly as a home for images and stories about being Genderqueer.

http://genderqueer.tumblr.com/

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Gender Identity vs. Orientation

DIGITAL VERSION

This artifact is a personal story about transitioning which is also meant to be informative about the difference between gender and sexuality.
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2011/07/03/gender-identity-vs-sexual-orientation/

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Childhood Gender Identity

 

Discourse:  Academic   Medium: alphabetic text

Digital Version:  http://rpucolo.colorado.edu/ebsco-web/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=0e221560-dfb2-4668-afb0-7a034d929bc2%40sessionmgr112&vid=2&hid=110

Citation:  Dragowski, Eliza A.  ‘Childhood Gender Identity…Disorder?  Developmental, Cultural, and Diagnostic Concerns.”  Journal of Counseling and Development 89.  (2011):  360-367).  Print.
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In God’s Eyes?

Discourse:  Religion    Medium:  Hypertext

Digital Version: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/1803/transgender_and_christian%3A_finding_identity

Citation: Lewis, Jori. “Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity | Sexuality/Gender.” Religion Dispatches. 03 Sept. 2009. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/1803/transgender_and_christian:_finding_identity>
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