Sentences with phrase «sexual identity using»

Kenyan - born Wangechi Mutu is a Brooklyn - based artist whose sculptures, works on paper, installations, and videos explore gender, race, and sexual identity using collage and assemblage strategies that create provocative juxtapositions of the female body.

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Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly urge the Government to introduce legislation, like Manitoba's and Ontario's, requiring all school boards to develop policies to support students who want to lead and establish gay - straight alliance activities and organizations, using any name that is consistent with the promotion of a positive school environment that is inclusive, welcoming, and respectful for all students regardless of sexuality, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

This is from an excerpt of literature from one program: «Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, new strategies have been used to stimulate consumption — especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity.

We have seen in particular how these laws are used by the government in an attempt to compel citizens to sacrifice their deepest convictions on marriage and what it means to be male and female, people who serve everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, but who can not promote messages, engage in expression, or participate in events that contradict their beliefs or their organization's guiding values.

We either defend God - given fixed sexual identity (and in doing so allow ourselves to continue to use sexed language), or we accept mind - based fluid gender identity, leading to gender - neutral (de-sexed) language.

The theory is informed by other research unrelated to the ex-gay movement, but Tanya Erzan in her book, Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement, does a good job of unpacking the complexities of understanding sexual identity categories using queer tSexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement, does a good job of unpacking the complexities of understanding sexual identity categories using queer tsexual identity categories using queer theory.

Don I use the terms state of being and sexual identity more or less interchangeably.

I'd agree that use of the word «gay» is dubious, as that primarily refers to a sexual orientation or identity, not to behaviour.

Assisting athletes in coping with sport - specific expectations, injury, anxiety, depression, conflict, communication with coaches, social media, alcohol or drug use, game - related pressure, sexual assault, athletic identity and other areas is vital to the personal development of youth athletes.

When talking about sexual orientation and gender identity, many different terms may be used.

When a couple uses the ubiquitous «honey» instead of their names, they blur the lines of their separate identities, and sexual attraction can not survive.

Whilst this may on the one hand fuel concerns about possible growth in the use of illegal pornographic content such as that depicting children or animals, it is also the same feature that allows a nervous or embarrassed teen to look for much - needed information about sexual identity or practices.

• Another major piece of legislation hailed by lawmakers as an important civil rights milestone was a ban on the controversial practice of using therapy to alter a young person's sexual orientation or gender identity.

The law bars transgender people from using bathrooms associated with their gender identity and excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from discrimination protections.

Last month, Governor Cuomo also bannednon - essential state travel to North Carolina, following that state's enactment of a law which bars transgender individuals from using restrooms appropriate for their gender identities, excludes sexual orientation and gender identity from state anti-discrimination protections, and prohibits municipalities from extending those protections to LGBT citizens.

Over many years, conversion therapy has been used to force change of a person's gender identity or sexual orientation.

Here, Vladimir Putin's perpetually dreary home turf is still reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the country's foreign intelligence agency, the S.V.R., is devoted to the use of sexual degradation to create runway - ready human automatons who will help Russia to reinvent its geopolitical identity.

Of course, public awareness and acceptance of transgender people is much greater now than it was when Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce's significantly more insightful film about Brandon Teena, a transgender man coming to terms with his self - described «sexual identity crisis» — debuted in 1999, thanks largely to visibility campaigns and presidential announcements (Barack Obama is the first sitting President to use the word in a state - of - the - union address).

«Nevada's voucher program allows private religious schools to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate and discriminate against students on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and other grounds,» she added.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

In particular, Goldenfire uses romantic relationships in order to foreground issues of sexual and personal identity (to the chagrin of some of your readers).

Penny Slinger on how Tantric art changed her life, dealing with sexual identity in art, using her bo...

Her Liz Taylor Series uses Pop Art imagery and assemblage to critique representation and the sexual politics of identity.

Through radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations, female artists were galvanised to use their work as further means of engagement — questioning feminine identities, gender roles and sexual politics through new modes of expression.

A major exhibition marking 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, Coming Out brings together work by artists who have used their practice to explore issues of gender and sexual identity, including David Hockney, Sarah Lucas and Steve McQueen.

Within that framework, she uses some of the most iconic artists of that time period to explore themes of class, race, gender and sexual identity.

The series title comes from the indigenous terms used by queer working class and transgendered men, often forced into sex work, to define their different and particular sexual identities.

Critic Samito Jalbuena has written that the artist's public use of language and ideas often creates shocking juxtapositions — commenting on sexual identity and gender relations («Sex Differences Are Here To Stay») on an unassuming New York movie theater marquee, for example — and sometimes extends to flights of formal outrage (such as «Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise» in lights over Times Square).

* 2 Representing the British Pavilion at next year's Venice Biennale, guest - invited artist Sarah Lucas is featured in Today's Specials with Chicken Knickers (1997), a controversial work, in which she uses food as substitutes for human genitalia and thus exploring the central theme of sexual ambiguity in traditional male and female identity.

Ann Hirsch is a contemporary artist who uses video and performance art to communicate ideas about women's sexual self expression and female identity.

Kothis (effeminate, underprivileged, homosexual men), Hijras (eunuchs), and Giriyas (partners of kothis and hijras) are indigenous terms used by queer working class and transgendered men, in their own dialect, to de ne their particular sexual identities.

Whether it be Sekhukuni and his use of the Internet as medium, Mooney and her fascination with ephemerality and the social notion of space or Adams and his interrogation of hybrid racial, sexual and religious identities, each are operating outside the stereotypical approaches canonized by South African art history, thanks to the possibilities / challenges presented to them by a new political and cultural climate.

Through radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations, female artists were galvanized to use their work as further means of engagement — questioning feminine identities, gender roles and sexual politics through new modes of expression.

Aguilar's now iconic triptych, Three Eagles Flying (1990), set the stage for her future work by using her nude body as an overt and courageous rebellion against the colonization of Latinx identities — racial, gendered, cultural and sexual.

The exhibition is severely overhung, with only a handful of works installed off the wall, and features seventy - five works that, according to the wall text, highlight a «new generation of women artists who are exploring many levels of sexuality through layers of identity and using the internet as a tool for sexual empowerment.»

This artist regularly investigates grim themes such as birth and death, stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, using it to critique contemporary ideas of racial, sexual and social identity deeply rooted in the history of all of us.

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Starting from the premise that there is no medical test to prove sexual identity, phallometry (a «pseudo-medical» examination attaching electrodes to measure sexual response to pornography — a process used in cases in the Slovak and Czech republics until 2011) was held by AG Sharpston in her July 2014 Opinion to be too ineffective and contrary to the Articles 3 and 7 of the Charter [par.

On June 17, 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a Resolution calling on the High Commissioner for Human Rights to examine «how international human rights law can be used to end violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.»

Berkeley Law's Career Development Office already prohibits employers from using its «services, interviewing facilities, or jobs posting database» if they «discriminate on the basis of national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender (including identity and expression), disability, age, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.»

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My background supports work with adults and seniors with issues such as: depression and anxiety, trauma and abuse, chronic stress, substance use / abuse, gender identity and questions regarding sexual orientation, relationship conflict, loss and general life adjustment concerns.

I have a great deal of experience with all of the issues that young people face: academic stress, friendship issues, conflicts with parents, identity issues, sexual identity, struggles with fitting in at school, body image issues, drinking / using drugs to cope, kids who have alcoholic parents, divorce, loss, loneliness, adoption issues, and general adolescent moodiness.

A recent review article5 by one of the leading researchers in the area, Charlotte Patterson, concluded that the sexual orientation of a parent does not significantly influence any major child development issues, including gender development, sexual orientation, self and identity development, moral judgment, anxiety, depression, victimization, self - esteem, or use of controlled substances.

Briefly, Boehner implied that individuals are capable of changing their sexual orientation (see SofR's related post on the idea of reparative therapy by Dr. Lehmiller here), and used Dr. Diamond's research on sexual identity labels (not sexual orientation) to supposedly support the claim that sexual orientation is malleable.

For example, people who communicate about their sexual likes and dislikes with their romantic partners report higher levels of sexual satisfaction.1, 2 Young people who receive comprehensive sex education are more likely to use condoms and take precautions against unwanted pregnancies compared to those who receive abstinence - only sex education.3 And exposure to people with diverse sexual identities contributes to reductions in stigma and prejudice.4, 5

Sex therapy can help address a number of issues such as: lack of knowledge regarding sexual health; sexual issues related to religion / spirituality, family values, culture, and / or ethnicity; communication barriers related to sexual intimacy; sexual and relationship issues related to an affair and / or differences in sexual pleasure preferences; sexual health related to medical factors; female orgasmic disorder; female sexual interest / arousal disorder; erectile disorder (premature ejaculation); pain experienced during penetration; vaginismus; male hypoactive sexual desire disorder; issues related to sexual orientation and / or gender identity; lacking knowledge or relationship issues related to a sexually transmitted infection and / or safer sex practices; risky sexual behavior related to substance use; sexual issues or relationship issues related to history of sexual abuse; and interest and / or lacking knowledge regarding BDSM, kink, and / or other sexual lifestyles.