Kevin Nixon
@anthro-queer35.bsky.social
Sessional Instructor for the Department of Anthropology at U. Toronto. Cultural anthropologist, drag researcher, bibliophile, horror movie and true crime fan, neophyte queer theorist, and 🐈⬛ parent. (He/Him or They/Them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.
Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49
A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.
Reposted by Kevin Nixon
My latest with @sciam.bsky.social "Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex". Please do read the linked Executive Orders and HS statements that this piece is in response to. I am hoping of a better dialogue on this... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex
Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications
www.scientificamerican.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My latest with @sciam.bsky.social "Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex". Please do read the linked Executive Orders and HS statements that this piece is in response to. I am hoping of a better dialogue on this... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
CDC Scientists Ordered to Withdraw Studies That Say ‘LGBT’ or ‘Pregnant People’
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”