#androcentric

The gendered city represents a melody often disregarded or silenced, yet it echoes the struggles and experiences of women in all urban contexts. Personally, I have encountered various challenges and barriers in my urban life, navigating conflicts rooted i

“Most writers write to say something about other people—and it doesn’t last. Good writers write to find out about themselves, and it lasts forever.” Gloria Steinemin “Revolution from Within”.If there’s a song you need to listen to that no one has sung, become it. What about the songs that have yet to be written? Those unique tunes, whether harmonious or unconventional, that have yet to be…

Finding creative and positive ways to transform a language

It is certain that the prevalence of the masculine gender in Spanish is a symptom of sexism within the language and this has been part of a serious scholarly and coffee-table debate for quite sometime. This debate has intensified in the last decades.

“Look after your language, it says it all”. Illustration cover of a document produced by the Instituto Asturiano de la Mujer. For a pdf copy of the…

I also chose to look at term phallocentrism. First and foremost, I just want to say that Tabiya Ahmed made a damn good video (shoutout!) and Ivy already made a really interesting post about this here on our blog (second shoutout!). While Ivy was intrigued by this term as it relates to men, the phallis, and androcentric sexuality, I was most interested in the anthrolinguistics of the term. Tabiya talks about how men make the mold when it comes to bodies, and how our language is set up to define everything as a foil against the male standard. The idea of a foil definition perpetuates a binary. Phallocentrism is not just the literal translation of a phallis focus, but that women are defined as they relate to men. Think of the conversation we had the other day in class about rape culture campaign, "what if she was your sister? your mother? your daughter?" Phallocentrism in action, binaries sucking, and post-structuralism reiterating language sucks.