“How do you respond to ‘gender critical’ readings of The Second Sex?”
I woke up to that question in my inbox this morning—from a student studying Beauvoir. I don’t teach anymore so, I was genuinely happy to receive the email. The short answer? I wrote a whole book about it.
There’s a great overview of my work in this recent piece in LGBTQ Nation:
p.s. if you want to go to the source with me to see what’s wrong with anti-trans readings of Beauvoir, join me for a slow read of The Second Sex starting in just a few days on March 1st.