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I teach film and media studies at a predominantly science and engineering university. In the past, I've had trouble getting students to see the importance of understanding sex and gender non-binaristically. This year, I decided to try a new approach science be if we decided to Various ancient cultures thought there were only Was this a full enough What if the Periodic Table only listed elements which comprised more than 0.1% (1000ppm) of the earth's crust? It would look like this. It wouldn't even include carbon (0.05% of the earth's crust) Without carbon, we can't Human body elemental abundance-I And how well would we understand biology if we left out all elements that make up less than 0.1% of the human body? We'd leave out at least 17 Thus, by leaving out even 0.1% of something, we might miss a crucial aspect of it. Worse, our omission might cause us to completely misunderstand the other 99.9%. So, how well do we ve just think of it as a man-or- woman By some estimates around 4% of people are some These are the 50+ gender identinies added to Facebook in 2014 Richovdls,Bounen, Seal Barket Nieder& T'oen(20Nor-bisory or genderqueergenders, Intemational Reve of Psychlatr% 28-191-102 And assigned sex isn't a binary either. At the very least 0.1% of people are intersex in some way, but the number could be much higher Thus, if we ignore non-binary people, we misunderstand the fundamental nature of gender Likewise, if we ignore intersex people, we misunderstand the fundamental nature of assigned sex. Periodic Table of the Elements can't do science properly if our models of the world ignore things that we know exist. Plenty of chemical elements are very rare, but we list them on the table anyway, because they exist. Likewise, if we ignore the identities and experiences of small segments of the population, we can't do the humanities properly (or be good people)

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Not Bill Nye but this applies too well.

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The FBI is searching my house now. Hope they don't find the "science lab" in my basement.

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When Bill Nye comes to your party and drinks all your alcohol and f---- your girl and says it's an experiment.

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