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Gender
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Bass Generation
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Gender
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Gender Trouble
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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20 Fingers
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Skins
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Skins
2000s
Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
1960s
An envoy visits a planet of androgynous beings. Gender, politics, and ice.
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Bass Generation
2000s
Bass Generation is a 2009 album associated with Basshunter and Dance Nation. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Wandering Son
2010s
Effeminate fifth grader Shuuichi Nitori is considered by most to be one of the prettiest girls in school, but much to her dismay, she is actually biologically male. Fortunately, Shuuichi has a childhood friend who has similar feelings of discomfort related to gender identity: the lanky tomboy Yoshino Takatsuki, who,...
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20 Fingers
Seven vignettes of Iranian couples arguing about gender, power, and freedom — shot inside a car. Akbari's confrontational companion to Kiarostami's Ten.
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Essays 1990s
Gender Trouble
Gender as performance, not essence. The founding text of queer theory.
Books 1990s
Written on the Body
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
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Anime 1990s
Revolutionary Girl Utena
A girl who wants to be a prince fights duels in a surreal academy. Gender, fairy tales, and revolution.
Film 1960s
Le gendarme se marie
Le gendarme se marie is a 1968 film from France and Italy, associated with Jean Girault. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1940s
The Second Sex
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.