Write down one other identity, besides gender, that is central to your self-image. The identity is important to how you see yourself or how others perceive you.

Think about the ideas behind intersectionality, then ask yourself:

How do your other identities complicate your gender performance? In other words, how does being an Asian/Black/Hispanic woman, a disabled man, a female athlete, a lesbian woman, a Christian woman, etc., shape the way in which you perform masculinity or femininity in your life?

For the two articles we read this week–“Can agentic black women get ahead” and “Intersecting the academic gender gap,” do any of the findings resonate with your experience? Deviates? How so?