Monday March 5th notes

5 People in attendance

Check-in: People are good, bad and in-between

Today we discussed the previous article. Most people had read it, and reaction were overwhelmingly positive. The article did an excellent job of introducing trans and genderqueer issues, while simultaneously touching on issues of class and race. We discussed at length what trans people have to go through in our society to get the hormones they desire or surgery they want. We talked about owning your own gender, and how you can't "steal" someone else's expression of their gender. Examples from the article are expressions of hyper-masculinity or femininity. Made us reflect on our own gender expression, and how in previous meetings people have had a hard time expressing what parts of being male where enjoyable, as f it was all bad, or expressing it was bad. We are going to continue discussing the article next week, with the focus being on what does Patriarchy gain for enforcing the gender binary, and from transphobia.

We look forward to reading what Tuesday talked about.