Non-Binary Approaches to Gender Justice
Promoting foundational perspectives in the land sector, this content delves into the intricacies of gender, sexuality, sex, gender identity, and sexuality. It challenges conventional perspectives, highlighting the fluidity and complexity of these concepts. Through informative imagery and thought-provoking text, the content encourages a reimagining of the existing binary frameworks surrounding gender, sex, and sexual orientation. It emphasizes the importance of inclusivity, understanding, and acceptance in achieving true gender justice.
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Non-Binary Approaches to Gender Justice Foundational Perspectives to promote in the Land Sector
Language determines how we understand gender & sexuality MALE MASCULINE REAL MAN HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE FEMININE LGBTIQXYZ REAL WOMAN
SEX - the tickbox! PERSON TRANSGENDER/ TRANSSEXUAL MALE FEMALE INTERSEX MISCONCEPTION: Biological, assumed by most as binary and unchangeable. CLARIFICATION: Assignment to sex category is a social process, there are intersex peoples (hermaphrodites) and transgender. LGBTIQXYZ
SEX + GENDER - reimagining the binary! Gay! PERSON MALE FEMININE/ Transgender/Queer ANDROGYNOUS/ Transgender/Queer UNDIFFERENTIATED/ Transgender/Queer MASCULINE MISCONCEPTION: Sex and gender are interchangeable, believed to be innate and unchanging, based on biology. CLARIFICATION: Gender is culturally-determined, associated but not equal to sex and is formed through socialization leading to assumed gender roles and stereotypes. LGBTIQXYZ
SEX + GENDER - reimagining the binary! Lesbian! PERSON FEMALE MASCULINE/ Transgender/Queer ANDROGYNOUS/ Transgender/Queer UNDIFFERENTIATED/ Transgender/Queer FEMININE MISCONCEPTION: Sex and gender are interchangeable, believed to be innate and unchanging, based on biology. CLARIFICATION: Gender is culturally-determined, associated but not equal to sex and is formed through socialization leading to assumed gender roles and stereotypes. LGBTIQXYZ
Gender Identity - how one feels and decides to be! It may or may not be congruent with one s sex or gender and is unrelated to sexual orientation
Sexuality - where it all gets exciting! Sexuality is a fuzzy term often used to refer to a group of related concepts, including sexual behavior (what you do), eroticism (what turns you on), sexual orientation (who turns you on), or desire to engage in sexual activity Sexuality is often associated with gender Expectations for appropriate sexual behavior and characteristics differ by gender, sexuality becomes a way of expressing gender
SEX + GENDER + ORIENTATION PERSON Sexual orientation is a part of gendered expectations MALE MASCULINE FEMININE ANDRO UNDIF HETEROSEXUAL REAL MAN!? GAY? ASEXUAL BISEXUAL PANSEXUAL HOMOSEXUAL MISCONCEPTION: Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation must always be aligned, misalignment is abnormality. LGBTIQXYZ CLARIFICATION: Sexual Orientation is the match between one s sex and the sex of sexual partner/s.
From this oversimplified matrix, there are 12 types of males PERSON MALE MASCULINE FEMININE ANDRO UNDIF HET HET HET HET BI BI BI BI HOMO HOMO HOMO LGBTIQXYZ HOMO
12 types of females PERSON FEMALE MASCULINE FEMININE ANDRO UNDIF HET HET HET HET BI BI BI BI HOMO HOMO HOMO LGBTIQXYZ HOMO
12 types of intersexed people PERSON INTERSEXED MASCULINE FEMININE ANDRO UNDIF HET HET HET HET BI BI BI BI HOMO HOMO HOMO LGBTIQXYZ HOMO
12 types of transgender people PERSON TRANSGENDER MASCULINE FEMININE ANDRO UNDIF HET HET HET HET BI BI BI BI HOMO HOMO HOMO LGBTIQXYZ HOMO
48 types of people! And to think we have not even talked about how > SEX as a continuum > GENDER as a continuum > ORIENTATION as a continuum making the categories infinite! Therefore, XYZ! LGBTIQXYZ
Non-Binary Approach to Gender Justice We need to build a critical consciousness of diversity and reclaim social, political, cultural and economic spheres towards inclusion | History Herstory Queerstory Ourstory! It begins with adopting a framework of INTERSECTIONALITY An analytical framework that looks into the interconnected nature of social categorizations of class, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability, gender, sexuality, etc that produce overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and disadvantage. -
Non-Binary Approach to Gender Justice Applications in the Land Sector Redefining our concept of Territory: Land is in itself intersectional, with land rights and natural resource governance founded on an unchecked domination of capitalism- colonialism-ableism-patriarchy-heteronormativity Territory must be seen beyond geographical units, but as a set of power relationships between people and the environment. Place is a social construction with ebbs and flows over time This is best seen in the context of displacement where territories are represented by memories projected against current positionality, negotiated through movement and fractures between different places that people and collectives can occupy. Place therefore can - - - -
Final thoughts for the land sector Feminized bodies: because all territories are defined to the advantage of the dominant, ideal intersection, ie. rich and able white Christian heterosexual male, all other social configurations are made to play by their rules as subservient feminized bodies . Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Agenda The journey to transform discrimination to tolerance to acceptance to integration Undertaking this task following a systems approach at the individual, home, workplace, and community There is a rich tradition of LGBTQIAXYZ activism in the land sector, we just need to listen! Ie. precolonial LGBT, LGBT activists, LGBT - - -
