Speculative Fixations: Who runs the world? In ‘Herland,’ it’s girls

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Speculative Fixations: Who runs the world? In ‘Herland,’ it’s girls

(PJ James • The Student Life) What if we were all women? That’s a question many had after Trump’s recent “Defending Women” executive order, which attempts to legitimize transphobia by giving a biologically incorrect definition of sex as something determined at “conception.”  Online, many speculated that this order ironically declared all Americans to be women, since past research has popularized the claim that fetuses start as female by default.…