Paisley Currah

Paisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. (May 2022)

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The Return of Trump—IV

On burnout, hell, billionaires, health care, the specter of the limousine liberal, and the anti-trans agenda.

November 11, 2024

The Asymmetry of Gender

“I’m not ready to jettison identity as a route into political awareness and action. But identity is not politics itself.”

May 28, 2022

What Sex Does

For transgender people in the United States, the sheer number of institutions with discrete authority to define sex ensnares us in Kafkaesque contradictions.

May 27, 2022

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