Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld

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I am Not a Queer Dinosaur Because I Accidentally Misgendered You

In my university course of 320 students, I try to remember everyone’s pronouns, but I find it impossible. This is the case as well even in my much smaller courses. Whenever I am unsure, I ask students again, or I use the pronoun “they.” But students often get very upset and enraged when I and any of my colleagues unintentionally misgender them. Several of my colleagues have quit the profession of teaching because of what they increasingly see as a “tyranny of language” (a language that is in perpetual flux and changes virtually by the day, with differing preferences and […]

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Hillary Clinton Has Become a True Champion to the LGBT Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated that “[t]he arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We can also view the notion of moral progress as a spiral stretched out. We commence our travels forward, and then we begin to circle up, back, then down, then we continue the process over and over again through time. But as we begin moving forward on each consecutive revolution of the spiral, we stand a bit further ahead, further onward than we did at the previous cycle. The march toward social justice, therefore, cannot be represented as a […]

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