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gender identity

documentary

Short film winners with political sting

: short Film Festival

NORWEGIAN SHORT FILM: Many of the films at this year's digital short film festival in Grimstad dealt with current political topics.
Aleksander Huser -
literature

From dystopia to feminist utopia

Laurie Penny: Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults

: Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults describes our dystopian world where the women's struggle is more important than ever. Penny's book hits my feminist vein after I recently experienced a life change. 
Pinar Ciftci -
internationally

Call me by my (other) name

: Our new permanent columnist, philosopher and curator Paul B. Preciado, describes the political and social construction associated with gender identity, and the right to define who one is.
paulb@nytid.no -
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 -

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