December 2011
5 posts
Have a Queer Christmas!
Artist Fredrika Biström has designed some queer Christmas cards, questioning traditional gender roles and stereotypes connected with the holiday season.
And this time of year does reinforce stereotypes: just think about how the roles of angels and shepherds are shared out in Nativity plays in schools and playgroups, or toy shop catalogues with their sections of Christmas present ideas for “girls”...
Bisexual social identity in Lithuania
The latest issue of Vytautas Magnus University journal of social research “Culture and Society” contains an interesting article by Darja Lyzenko on the experience of bisexual people in Lithuania. Based on interviews with bisexuals living in Lithuania, the article discusses the construction of a bisexual social identity and the obstacles bisexual people encounter in forming their identity. The...
GAY DANCE: A SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS STORY
Finland’s 94th anniversary of independence this December was celebrated by, amongst other things, an event entitled Homotanssit, or Gay Dance. This event is a good example of reacting to bigotry in a creative, empowering and, above all, fun way.
It all started when a member of parliament turned down an invitation to attend the official independence day reception at the presidential palace,...
How can you help kids to understand sexism issue
This is Soraya Chemaly’s article which shows problem of sexism in movies. But don’t worry! It also gives you some solution how to help kids to understand it and struggle to end discrimination against femininity.
“Given the world we live in, there is simply no way to stop kids from talking about, seeing and enjoying what are clearly overwhelmingly gender biased stories being told by...
and they will show you your true colours...
In reference to Hillary Clinton’s speech (you can read it in here: http://www.humanrights.gov/2011/12/06/remarks-in-recognition-of-international-human-rights-day/ ) about LGBT rights (which should be treated as regular human rights) and about permanent violation of these rights it is reasonable to recall results of the HRW report called “‘We’ll Show You You’re a Woman’: Violence and...
