Emily Dupree
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131 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2014
last heard Aug 2018
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And I'm Emily Dupree.
When these identities are chosen for us, what exactly is being chosen?
Is it picking out a property that we have as an individual?
Is it picking out some particular social location that we occupy?
What's going on in that imposition of a category?
In the case of gender, it seems that the idea that there is a property that could be picked out, though insignificant and then given political meaning, it seems that that itself we lose our grip on when we actually try to do it.
So if you try to pick out a particular property that, for example, makes someone a woman,
each one you try to pin down turns out not to be the one.
For example, if you say, well, this is from the history of this question, if you say, well, women are the ones with ovaries or who can give birth,
Well, it turns out that's not the case for many reasons.
And you say, OK, well, fine, women are the ones.
And then you fill in the blank of all these various biological properties that time and time again turns out not to be the ones.
So I guess what I'm asking is, in some cases, it seems that identity does pick out a property, though irrelevant.
But in the case of gender, there's still the question of whether it is picking out a common property held by all in the category to begin with.
Yeah, I guess my question is, where does the concept of being transgender fit into this if gender is so closely tied either to our relationship to the expectation of childbearing or our relationship to what role we might play in reproduction more generally?
How does that fit into all this?
Given the variability of identity categories throughout history and the importance of being sensitive to the context that you're analyzing an identity category, how can we nonetheless cultivate solidarity within a single identity category or across identity categories in a moment where that solidarity is politically necessary?
Yes.
Yes.
It seems that this kind of messy solidarity that we want to cultivate requires, in the first instance, that people identify with the identity category that is then
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