Harper Steele and Will Ferrell on their road-trip.
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Will & Harper is a touching road movie documentary which, at its core, is a celebration of friendship.
Protest against high incidence of rape in South Africa.
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Protests and other acts of activism make visible groups and issues that are overlooked or deliberately ignored.
Image from Making the Shrine: Stories from Victoria’s War Memorial.
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Australian readers are hungry for graphic novels, but, due to a skills shortage, few are published locally. Three very different new books feed our growing appetite for the form.
The Olympic rings are seen at the Paris La Defense Arena, on June 12, 2024 in Nanterre, outside Paris, France.
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While transgender people have gained some recognition and human rights in the past decade, a well-financed reactionary movement is rolling them back.
Gender and sex are more complicated than X and Y chromosomes.
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Cell-free DNA prenatal screening, sometimes called ‘the gender test,’ cannot determine gender because gender is more than just genes and genitals.
At the end of her professional career, Lynn Conway was professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan.
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The trailblazing engineer was co-inventor of a technique for designing computer chips that laid the groundwork for the computing revolution.
People take part in the 2024 Winnipeg Pride Parade, on June 2. Many 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadians are in their teens. Despite this, Pride — and the stories about it — typically centre adults.
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Given the increase in anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate and hostility, queer youth need more support and allyship. Here are 10 ways to support 2SLGBTQIA+ youth this Pride Month.
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For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.
Protesters support transgender rights during an event outside Parliament House in Canberra.
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In her new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, feminist philosopher Judith Butler explains how gender and sex are socially constructed, while fighting critics who see gender as a threat to the social order.
Although medical doctors may be the first point of contact for children exploring their gender identity, many other professions can provide gender-affirming care, such as psychologists, social workers, teachers, counsellors and recreational coaches.
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Gender-affirming care assesses psychological, social, medical and surgical options for gender-diverse people.
The increasing visibility of gender transitioning and detransitioning has come with a helping of sensationalization and polarization.
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Gender fluidity and detransition deserve nuanced understanding. Polarization that presents detransitioners as either ‘misinformation’ or victims of ‘gender ideology’ hurts all gender-diverse people.
Anti-gay laws are gaining popularity in Africa.
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Ghana’s anti-gay bill will affect heterosexual’s too
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Children are often allowed to freely explore their identities in early childhood services. But when they get to school, they are categorised as ‘boys’ or ‘girls’.
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Love and Money, Sex and Death ricochets between sparkling defiance, unravelled grief, and furious hope.
People protest Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s proposed youth transgender policies as she appears at an event in Ottawa on Feb. 5, 2024.
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On both sides of the transgender care debate, what is presented as ‘fact’ distorts real complexities of gender-affirming health care, leaving many in the dark about what is really at stake.
Anti-trans legislation adjudicates the bodily autonomy of those who do not conform to gender norms.
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For as long as trans medicine has been around, so has its opposition. The tactics of prior waves of anti-trans policies are still in play today.
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Research shows how the group once portrayed as a respected source of advice began to be seen by some outlets as a danger to young people.
Gender-affirming surgeries give transgender people the opportunity to align their bodies with their gender identity.
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The findings push back against the notion that many transgender people end up wishing they hadn’t gone through with gender-affirming surgeries.
A Lotus Sutra scroll praising the manifold mercies of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.
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For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2023.
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In emphasizing the church’s love for all, including people in LGBTQ+ relationships, the pope has sidestepped thorny doctrinal issues.