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literature

Born in the wrong booth

Soraya Zaman: American Boys

SEXUALITY: In the book American Boys, we see portraits of the transsexual reality, which is rooted in society's fundamentally wrong perception of gender and sexuality.
Pinar Ciftci -
literature

Fiction or reality?

Lisa Halliday: Asymmetry

SEX: Asymmetry highlights stories about gender roles, nationality and power and gives us an unforgettable asymmetrical experience, in both form and content.
Pinar Ciftci -
COMMENT

A third legal gender alternative

: We live in a society where the diversity among us humans is great, also when it comes to gender. There are men, women and non-binary, among others. 
ask@skeivungdom.no -
internationally

From gender to control

: It is not the usual gender differences (or #MeToo) that are discussed in What Helmer could say to Nora – and other essays, written by Dag Østerberg – now published posthumously on Gyldendal.
Truls Lie -
documentary

Squash, gender identity, life and death

Erin Heidenreich: Girl Unbound

: Girl Unbound is a complex documentary about gender, sports, the Taliban, war and death threats.
reidar.jessen@gmail.com -
literature

Feminist everyday resistance 

Sara Ahmed: Living and Feminist Life

: Living a Feminist Life is a sparkling handbook on practicing feminism in a world of new dividing lines.
reidar.jessen@gmail.com -
literature

Being in love with either / or

Naomi Alderman / TV series based on Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel: The Power / The Handmaid's Tale

: The Handmaid's Tale confirms the liberal left's worldview, while The Power challenges it.
bbjornoy@gmail.com -
x_arkiv

My juicy judgment

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Kjetil Korslund -
COMMENT

Gender and oranges

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MODERN TIMES -
literature

Gender without discretion

Knut Kolnar: The male animal – Desire in modern film

: A terrifying example of how bad it can go when you use a fashionable academic theory as a map, and try to adapt the terrain to it.
Kjetil Korslund -

Full 100-page MODERN TIMES including the appendix Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly (March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1) with international book reviews, essays and comments – in addition to the physical newspaper and PDF, the articles are eventually published online here (see also the newsletter).

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