CSIS- Conflict Starts In Sexuality

*Full disclosure- construction was taking place just outside my kitchen window. Apologies for the tapping sound.* Today’s Woodside looks at the trope of gender conformity, through the performativity of hairstyles. 


Your Hair Does Not Conform, Man. 

Stolen people on stolen land, relational connectedness- historically contingent identities, notions of race are dynamic. Whiteness is created through institutional arrangements, learned social behaviour and consciousness.



The Dissemblance of Black Women in the Americas

Michel Foucault, beginning in the eighteenth century, discourses concerning sexual ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’ have proliferated in western,
industrializing societies. Foucault identifies this proliferation as a primary mechanism for moral regulation, state formation, and social organization. Taking some time to think about the origin of it all.
