I got into the academic world because asking questions helped my life make sense.
I found out in short order that the contemporary university system is not about asking questions -- not when it counts, and especially not when the inquirers are female.
In this episode, I "talk about" (with cursing) the AAA/CASCA's late-stage cancellation of a panel titled "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology," and address the wild accusations (practically slanderous) against the six female would-be panelists (based on nothing but Kathleen Lowrey's super-reasoned, zero-percent-transphobic panel proposal).
Here are the Michel Foucault quotes I mention, because questioning the origins of categories (as Foucault did) is the exact opposite of contemporary scholars' approach to what AAA and CASCA confusingly term "sex/gender" (what on earth is that slash mark doing??):
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