I found this piece to be tangentially related to some of the material we have read in the course, as it covers issues of gender and does a good job illustrating the blurry lines that compose this construct.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/we-celebrated-michael-phelpss-genetic-differences-why-punish-caster-semenya-for-hers/2019/05/02/93d08c8c-6c2b-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html
This is a really great article, thanks for sharing. It's wild the discrimination that semenya has faced, and definitely brings to the forefront the arbitrary nature of the labels we attach to people through numerical levels of hormones
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ReplyDeleteHi Sam, thank you for sharing! As Kate mentioned, the discrimination Semenya has faced throughout her career is absolutely appalling, and the article you shared provides an interesting take. I recently posted a New Yorker piece by Ariel Levy, published in 2009, about Semenya - definitely worth checking out!
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