Last night, after reading authors like Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and Anne Fausto-Sterling, I tore up my identity card. I am tired of being locked into an identitarian, dichotomous, and infringed normative framework. Something has stirred.
We invite you to join the AAAS-DoSER program for a conversation about sex, gender and identity. Together we will consider scientific perspectives on these concepts as they relate to humans and other organisms – AND share ideas about fostering constructive conversations about sex, gender and identity in religious spaces, recognizing the challenges and opportunities of the current moment.