John Pettigrew
johnpettigrew@wandering.shop
<p>Hat wearer, recovering editor, feminist. Posts about publishing, books, coding, social & environmental justice, & their intersections. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a></p><p>He/him</p><p>Profile photo: a white man wearing sunglasses, a black pork-pie hat, a black patterned face mask and a black tee shirt showing part of the slogan "No one is illegal".</p><p>Banner image: the 4 principles of Kim Crayton's "Profit without oppression", from "Tech is not neutral" to "Prioritise the most vulnerable".</p>
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This is a great (and short) explanation of why biologists usually roll our eyes when we hear nonsense like "there are exactly 2 human sexes" or "all humans are either male or female", or especially "it's easy to tell if someone's male or female - just measure [some trait]". People are complicated and biology is messy. Evolution doesn't care about our biases or preferences; it just muddles along with whatever works well enough. https://theconversation.com...