In The News: Department of Sociology

Intersex people have, consciously or not, been queering marriage long before U.S. activists were fighting for marriage equality. Intersex people, that is, people whose bodies defy arbitrary markers of sex, including genital, chromosomal, and gonadal characteristics, didn’t have to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court’s historical decision to legally say “I do!” to a romantic partner with the same sex chromosomes, a key, albeit arbitrary, marker of biological sex.
Spektrum der Wissenschaft

More and more studies show that our idea of ​​two sexes is too simplistic - not only anatomically, but genetically as well.

INFZM

Biologists believe that gender has a more complex spectrum, and that the idea of ​​dividing people into two genders is too simple. But these findings will be out of place in a world of duality that is either or both.

iPon

On the basis of genetic and biological studies, it seems that the strict division of sex into two categories makes it too simplistic for reality.

Nature

The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

Las Vegas Review Journal

For much of Nevada’s history, the deadliest piece of machinery within its boundaries was the automobile. But now, rising numbers of people taking their own lives with guns has left the Silver State with a new, depressing distinction.

Cadena SER

En la década de 1950, muchos teóricos temieron que, gracias a las innovaciones tecnológicas, los estadounidenses no supieran qué hacer con su tiempo libre.

Reuters

The killings of six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin has thrust attention on white power music, a thrashing, punk-metal genre that sees the white race under siege.

Las Vegas Review Journal
Richard Plackowski admits he's been tempted to post something online that wasn't very nice. When he sees a YouTube video that's "kind of dumb." Or when someone makes "an ignorant statement" in an online discussion.