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TRANSGENDER GENETICS FACT OR FANTASY?
As it happened, those who regarded genetic factors as determinative and traits as binary came to prevail in the field. The notion that traits might exist along a spectrum and be shaped by multiple influences was considered unconvincing and remained
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WHAT JAPAN’S WPS LEADERSHIP HAS YET TO CONFRONT
Drawing on my participation in the civil society process surrounding Japan’s first NAP, I examine how WPS has been translated into State policy. Japan has not ignored WPS; rather, it has embraced it as a language of international cooperation, disaster
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GENDER DIVERSITY, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE PURSUIT OF PEACE IN LATIN AMERICA
This article argues that sustainable peace cannot beachieved through formal legal recognition alone. In many Latin American contexts, constitutionalism has simultaneously promoted inclusion while preserving mechanisms of social control over gender and sexuality. A cross Latin America, constitutional reforms and
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A REFUGEE’S PLEA FROM CONGO
Pax Lumina asks how we might reimagine gender for peace. I answer: by centering refugee women who have survived structural violence, cultural stigma, and institutional exclusion and who have nonetheless chosen to build peace, one small act at a time.
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BEYOND THE RIGIDITY OF IDENTITY
English, in particular, is a language of binary imprisonment. It forces the observer to choose, to categorize, to become either “he” or “she,” effectively silencing the nuanced, expansive reality of human experience. The origins of gender are not found in
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