The Edge Episode 4: That Manhole Is Now a Maintenance Hole
Posted on October 6, 2020 - 11:38pm
transgender
Transitioning with Grace: Coming Out in Academia
For Grace Lavery, coming out as a trans woman was nerve-racking at first. A professor in Berkeley’s Department of English, she was afraid of how her colleagues and students would react. As she explains, a certain amount of criticism comes with the territory of being in academia, adding that, “in my profession, there’s always some degree of anxiety.”
From the Fall 2020 issue of California.
The Lesbianki Are Coming! The Lesbianki Are Coming! The Secret Lives of Russians
It was late afternoon on a glorious day in October. My friend Natasha and I were picking our way down a country lane, toward the train station in a village about an hour from Moscow’s Kievsky train station. Our close friends, a lesbian couple, owned a dacha in the village, a cozy cottage where a group of us gathered often to escape the city.
From the Summer 2016 Welcome to There issue of California.
Changing Minds about Changing Minds: How Results Once Faked Could Actually Be True
It may be time to change our minds about the impossibility of changing people’s minds. Again.
From the Summer 2016 Welcome to There issue of California.
Trans Identity Meditation: Exploding the Notion that Anyone Is Simply Male or Female
When UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks held his first meeting with the campus LGBTQ Advisory Committee a little over a year ago, he began by introducing himself with his personal PGPs: he, him, and his. PGPs, for those who don’t know, are preferred gender pronouns.
From the Winter 2014 Gender Assumptions issue of California.
