{"id":63535,"date":"2022-03-24T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63535"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:03:19","slug":"learning-your-own-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63535","title":{"rendered":"Learning Your Own Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning Your Own Name<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Gay & Lesbian Review<\/a>
\n2022-02-25<\/p>\n

Ren Iris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The author in fourth grade, holding a basketball trophy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IF GENDER had a tagline, it would be \u201cGender: Paradoxes Abound.\u201d Every day, we make countless assumptions based on gender expectations and societal norms. Sex assigned at birth and gender are often conflated and\/or repurposed to fit institutional check-the-box guidelines. Gender\u2014the abstraction, the perceived reality\u2014is a chimera. Like most other words acting as a placeholder for an abstract concept, it is ever shifting and always context-dependent, even if it\u2019s relegated to a box to be checked on a form.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotten less restrictive lately, thanks to activists and antidiscrimination policies, and thanks also to the dissemination of intersectional training, often featuring educational resources such as the \u201cgender unicorn\u201d or \u201cgender bread\u201d person. But even with all that knowledge, we must constantly unlearn the restrictive, prescriptive understandings of gender. And in real time, during present interactions, referring to a gender-inclusive cheat sheet before responding is usually a thankless endeavor…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here goes: After months of thinking (waffling), I\u2019m legally changing my name. Even though my timing is off, with my indie publisher having released my sophomore novel in October 2021. Even with all my previous writing, my prior email addresses and digital footprints tied to my deadnames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,20],"tags":[33329,20170,32405,33326,33328,33330,33331],"class_list":["post-63535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-gay-lesbian-review","tag-joy-huang-stoffers","tag-joy-huang-iris","tag-ren-iris","tag-the-gay-lesbian-review","tag-yuan-ren","tag-33331"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63550,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63535\/revisions\/63550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}