Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of
Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many …

Transgender rights discussions often turn on the distinction between “gender identity” and
“sex assigned at birth.” Gender identity is a person's own internal sense of whether they are …

Under the Obama Administration, agencies issued guidance concerning sexual assault and
harassment on college campuses, transgender rights, the use of arrest and conviction …

In this article, I examine how conflicts over transgender bathroom rights have ignited
debates concerning the fundamental nature of transgender identity. Through an institutional …

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as
natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book critically examines these assumptions and …

Recent political debate over transgender military service and gendered bathroom use
highlights a dramatic increase in salience over transgender issues in the US. In this essay …

This article asks what New Left era liberation theory can illuminate about capitalism,
corporate power, and minority oppression in American politics today. Over the past forty …

This paper explores the epistemic agency of American trans students/youths by
emphasizing the ordinary practices of life-making as they are enacted or rather reflected …

During its military dictatorship's toughest years, Brazil witnessed the emergence and
meteoric rise to (inter) national fame of the theater and dance group/family Dzi Croquettes in …

In this thesis I investigate the treatment of non-white race and non-cis gender within Victor
Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables, its adaptations and in fanworks. I begin by establishing …