And Why You Should Cultivate Some Resilience in Order to Avoid Becoming One

How brain science explains queer trauma, conflict and call-out culture

Asking everyone their preferred personal pronoun is not a good idea, argues Rachel N. Levin.

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents a large scale study on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions from men versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to a project and their gender is identifiable, men’s acceptance rates are higher. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

Dans un premier temps associé au « sexe social », le genre a ensuite été défini comme un rapport social hiérarchique divisant l’humanité en deux moitiés inégales. Le genre définit ainsi le sexe, qui ne peut plus être considéré comme une réalité physique indépendante de nos pratiques sociales. Ces analyses ont ouvert la voie à une multitude de courants politiques prenant le genre et ses effets pour cible.

Ecrit par Alyson Escalante, traduit de l’anglais par Mirza D. Texte original disponible sur Les espaces féministes s’intéressent de plus en plus à l’inclusion des personnes trans, mais beaucoup d’e…

The idea that millions of sperm are on an Olympian race to reach the egg is yet another male fantasy of human reproduction

Safe space is the name given to a moment in time between two or more people where a person can feel confident to not be judged, criticized, harassed, and in general that they will be able to be the…