Gender
These are the norms, beliefs, and behaviors associated with masculinity and femininity.
What are gender roles?
Sexuality closely intertwines with but is distinct from __________.
What is gender?
This refers to the processes leading to differential racial outcomes embedded in social structures and policies, even if there is no explicit distinction by race in the policies.
What is institutional racism (also known as systemic racism)?
Plummer’s idea of ___________ recognizes that there are increasing public discourses and policies affecting people’s decisions about their sexuality and behavior.
What is intimate citizenship?
This movement seeks to document and explain the intersecting experiences and inequalities of gender and disability and to pursue social justice for women with disabilities.
What is feminist disability studies?
This concept encompasses one’s sexual identity, orientation, behavior, and relationships.
What is sexuality?
This means that people use subtle ideologies, such as cultural differences and meritocracy, to distinguish among people in ways that mask yet also perpetuate racial stratification.
What is color-blind racism?
This is the construction and experience of oppression that intertwines across multiple systems of power.
What is intersectionality?
Studies under this movement explicitly include race and class, as well as gender and disability.
What is the Feminist Intersectional Disability Framework?
This is society’s construction of heterosexual orientation, behaviors, and relationships as the norm and as valued above other sexualities.
What is heteronormativity?
Racial and class inequalities become __________ as people physically and mentally experience the advantages and disadvantages that come from one’s race.
What is embodied?
This is a movement that rejects conformity, affirms people’s right to be visibly autistic or neurodivergent, and embraces the fluidity of identity in gender, sexuality, and ability while challenging traditional gender roles and ableism.
What is the Neuroqueer movement?
This is the idea that our bodies shape our experience of the world and that the social conditions of the world shape our bodies.
What is embodiment?
People with disabilities are often _______ opportunities to explore, express, and enact sexuality.
What is denied?
Statistics focusing on the prevalence rates hide this practice—the differential diagnosis by race.
What is the racialization of diagnosis?
This is the cultural construction of gender as only two genders, male and female, which are presented as mutually exclusive.
What is the gender binary?
Because masculinity is a ___________ status and disability is not, many disabled men will strongly identify with masculinity and minimize their disability.
What is privileged?
In this system, only some people are seen as deserving pleasure and sexuality.
What is ableism?
Wasserberg found that students of color experience ___________: the anxiety that poor academic performance will be used to confirm negative racial stereotypes, which often then produces poor performance.
What is stereotype threat?
These identities blur or reject the gender binary.
What are gender queer identities?