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I wrote about the Waterloo stabbing, Jordan Peterson, political transphobia, and why we sure as hell aren't going to stop teaching gender studies.

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06:04 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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On June 28th, a man entered a gender studies classroom and stabbed the professor and two students at the University of Waterloo. In my estimation, this heinous act is the logical consequence of the transphobic campaign initiated by Jordan Peterson in 2016.

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06:05 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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According to a student, when the assailant learned the course was a gender studies class, “the man's body language changed, as though he were ‘happy’ to hear that he was in that class... The thing that disgusts me the most is this vile, mischievous smile that he had on his face."
06:05 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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Political transphobia is on the rise across Canada, inspired by the USA's fascist MAGA movement. Nowhere in the country is this more clear than in
Premier Blaine Higgs' New Brunswick.

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06:06 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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New Brunswick Liberal leader Susan Holt has rightly characterized Higgs' attempt to scapegoat and demonize trans and non-binary people as a tactic "more than teetering" on the edge of fascism.

https://theendofsport.podb...
06:07 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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The MAGA movement and its Canadian adherents have falsely ascribed the real economic hardships caused by decades of neoliberal governance to the incremental gains in visibility of trans/non-binary people via the disingenuous concept of 'woke capitalism.'

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06:08 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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The insidious sleight of hand performed by an increasingly organized right-wing movement has been to discursively invert the actually-existing nature of power relations so that those most victimized are demonized as the root cause of all social problems.
06:09 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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I am not a gender studies professor per se. I teach on social theory and sport in Sociology at UNB. But, the project of 'gender studies' to deconstruct the dominant sex-gender system runs through all of my courses, as it does for so many of my colleagues across the continent.
06:45 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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This Fall, I will teach a course to all new Faculty of Arts students at UNB wherein I contend a genuinely liberatory politics requires we abandon the assumption anyone should be compelled to express an externally-imposed identity, whether it relates to gender, sex, or sexuality.
06:46 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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On the morning of the day of the Waterloo assault, Jordan Peterson tweeted that members of the Endocrine Society who support gender-affirming care are "liars[,] butchers[,] monsters" who belong in "prison." In another tweet, he added "call me cis to my face and see what happens."
09:03 PM - Jul 03, 2023
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