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Tech bros: “BuT iF We uSe A wRiTe-In BoX fOr gEnDeR ThEy mIgHt AlL gIVe diFfERenT AnSWeRs” Bro, that’s the point. You can’t have accuracy with overly limited check box options.

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Negotiating Gender: Calalai' in Bugis Society

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This blog loves and supports people who are of a gender that is specific to their culture, whether or not they personally choose to identify with the LGBTQ+, trans, or non-binary communities.

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Tożsamość płciowa

Tożsamość płciowa #gender #genderstudies #genderidentity #płeć #sex

Genderfluid, nonbinary, genderqueer. Na pewno słyszeliście te terminy ostatnimi czasy w debacie publicznej. Powodują nieliche zamieszanie, do tego stopnia, że sam miewam z tym problemy. Warto zatem rozważyć czym jest tożsamość a czym ekspresja płciowa. Cindy Sherman tworzyła pod wpływem Women’s studies, które później przerodziły się w gender studies. Natomiast Nan Goldin weszła z aparatem w…

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The Third Gender?

By Hollis Taylor Androgyne, Transgender, GenderQueer, Two-Spirit, or whatever name you want to use for the third gender we can all agree that the community at large is barely ready for us. One of the places that many of us Androgyne people have a hard time finding safe space is in spiritual community. Many of us have unusual perspectives about the divine because of our inner work with gender. As…

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The Five Genders of the Bugis

South Sulawesi's Calalai, Calabai, & Bissu

  The Bugis of South Sulawesi have a detailed system of gender identification which has been described by one young Bugis as “one of those puzzles that doesn’t mean anything until you put all the pieces together” (Graham, 2004, p. 109). Indeed there are five distinct gender identities specified in Bugis society, which include: makkunrai (woman), calalai (transgendered female) bissu (androgynous priest), calabai (transgendered male), and oroané (man). The determination of individual gender is composed of many elements and is conveyed by Graham (2004) as a holistic consideration of physical, spiritual, social, and sexual attributes.

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The physical body is very important in determining gender. A person’s sex determines their potential to procreate and as males can never be women or calalai and females can never be men or calabai the matter is not taken lightly (Davies, 2006). As for the other factors, in many ways an individual’s spirituality, sexuality, and preference for typical male or female social roles, will first clearly determine what they are not, since the categories of ‘man’ and ‘women’ are extremely strict. As Davies (2006) describes: A woman is female-bodied, heterosexual, married, a mother, and dressed modestly and appropriately (e.g. her sarong is tucked-in rather than rolled down like a man’s). A woman acts demurely, speaks politely, is refined and reserved, and identifies and is identified as, a woman ... A man is male-bodied, heterosexual, married, and a father. A man is assertive and aggressive and controlled (p. 4-5). Those unable or unwilling to conform to these rigid categories are thus excluded and necessarily relocated in another gender category - quite likely calabai or calalai depending of course upon your physiology.

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An agreed upon understanding of Bugis gender conceptualization and the role of multiple genders in South Sulawesi is difficult to convey, as many scholars have conflicting view points on the matter. While some seem mainly focused on the potential for diversity and self-expression in a society that recognizes the gender variation of its members as legitimate, others point out that forcing people into additional gender categories simply reinforces dichotomy and binary gender ideals (Davies, 2006; Graham, 2004; Idrus, 2005; Murray, 2002).

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Did You Know?

India has 5 Gender that are recognize by the people

1. Men

2. Women

3. Calabai - Men who lives their life as women, think of themselves as women

4. Calalai - women who live life as men, think of themselves as men

5. Bissu - think of themselve as both men and women, they are treated as a diety and god.

These 5 must coexist in harmony. 5 gender used in a fertility ritual.

Calabai and Calalai can not be together.

They do not accept gay together but do accept a calabai and a men or a calalai and a women. Understand they do not see them as transvestite or gay.