Dismantling the Sex Binary Requires Confronting Racist and Heterosexist Foundations of Sexual Selection Theory
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Melina PackerAmbika Kamath
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This article argues that dismantling the sex binary in biology and society requires confronting the racist and heterosexist foundations of sexual selection theory. The authors celebrate the growing acceptance of sex as a spectrum rather than a binary, but contend that true sexual liberation cannot be achieved without also addressing how racism and heterosexism have shaped evolutionary biology's understanding of sex and sexuality.
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· 3 pulledThanks to generations of activism and scholarship, and despite the current backlash, 21st-century scientists and non-scientists are increasingly accepting—and celebrating!—the fact that sex is non-binary.
It is becoming far more widely understood that, rather than being locked into either of the overly reductive categories of female or male, sex exists along a spectrum (with perhaps a bimodal distribution).
We submit that no sexual liberation can be complete with...
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