Another 'BBC season' is upon us. Last Autumn we had a major season on 'race and gender'. This Spring we're getting a season on' identity'.
As we become more connected and mobile than ever, BBC World News and BBC World Service examine how our individual identities are changing. A month-long series of content looks at how the movement of people and the increasing exchange of ideas and information are changing who we are and how we live.
Looking at what they' have in store for us, don't hold your breath for anything focusing on, say, English national identity, or being part of a traditional family, or being white, male, middle-aged and Northern, or being an Anglican or an Orthodox Jew.
Highlights from the season include:
Very BBC.
- World On The Move
- Default World
- Identity Season At The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
- The Salon
- Trading Hair
- Forgotten Girls of Dhaka
- Transgender: Back To Jamaica
- Intelligence Squared Debate: Society Must Recognise Trans People’s Gender Identities
- Beyond Binary ("In communities around the globe, intersex, genderqueer and bi-gender people are rejecting the categories of ‘male’ and ‘female’, and attempting to re-define gender identity.")
- Artsnight: Black Culture With George The Poet
Race and gender are identity. This is just more divide & rule ugliness.
ReplyDelete“Society Must Recognise Trans People’s Gender Identities”. I realise, or at least I assume this is a discussion, a debate even, but this is a statement not a question. There is no room at all for an opposing point of view. I’ve never quite gone along with Margaret Thatcher’s, “There is no such thing as society” but one wonders who exactly “society” is in this context of this topic. Is this, and to a large extent the following topic, not simply a case of a very small number of metropolitan liberals dictating to the rest of us what to think? Not a new concept for the BBC, of course.
ReplyDeleteI’m not even sure what a genderqueer is, so clearly this isn’t a burning topic for me - nor for most people, I suspect. Maybe I’m completely out of touch, but I also suspect most people are quite happy with “binary” gender.
Yet the identity of the groups you have listed, who clearly would never interest the BBC is something I would like to hear discussed.