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gender-themed day
Mar. 29th, 2013 10:39 pmWeird day. Up at 4am, went to work for a few hours to find failing experiment, let it go longer and came home to crash; after a four-hour nap, went to acupuncture to try to fix ongoing digestive doom, and hit the central library on the way; saw Sakura-con cosplayers including obligatory Sephiroth with giant tinfoil sword, very cheering; back to lab to find experiment going okay (the seedlings were just slow starters for some reason); home to make teriyaki with sherry instead of mirin (pretty good, actually). And there was a gender theme all day, which I will now share:
1. Whitehouse.gov petition to recognize non-binary genders
2. Email from my department:
The decals she's talking about went up a couple of weeks ago, leading to mockery and grumpiness from many of us. They're giant and PINK or BLUE with the zodiac symbol around a silhouette or silhouette-with-skirt, really about the most gender-essentialist thing you could possibly imagine. This mail doesn't quite get it right, but they're doing their best to be aware and I wasn't expecting them to do so well.
3. And when I was at the library I had a major Yomiko Readman moment on finding three giant volumes of the beautiful translated edition of Hourou Musuko. I have read them, but I don't care, I am going to read THESE ONES.
1. Whitehouse.gov petition to recognize non-binary genders
2. Email from my department:
It has been called to our attention that in trying to relabel the restrooms in HCK so that people weren’t inadvertently entering the wrong one (they are in opposite locations on alternating floors), we were sending the wrong message to transgender populations. This was unintended.
We encourage transgender employees and students to use the restroom or locker room corresponding to their expressed gender but most importantly, transgender employees and students should use the restroom that they are most comfortable with for their individual situation, irrespective of expressed gender.
Additional signs will be posted on the restroom doors.
The decals she's talking about went up a couple of weeks ago, leading to mockery and grumpiness from many of us. They're giant and PINK or BLUE with the zodiac symbol around a silhouette or silhouette-with-skirt, really about the most gender-essentialist thing you could possibly imagine. This mail doesn't quite get it right, but they're doing their best to be aware and I wasn't expecting them to do so well.
3. And when I was at the library I had a major Yomiko Readman moment on finding three giant volumes of the beautiful translated edition of Hourou Musuko. I have read them, but I don't care, I am going to read THESE ONES.
