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Hi, all.

I suppose I might as well start with the beginning question. What am I looking for? Actually, that's a pretty good question. I guess I'm looking for something different. My primary interest in both gender and sexuality has to do with exploring all of their possiblities, if that makes any sense. I'm interested in looking at sexuality and gender beyond the binaries of gay/straight and man/woman. Queer sexuality and genderqueer/trans issues.

Most of the other classes I've taken that were crosslisted Gender/Sexuality have dealt with gender as mainly being about the similarities and differences between men and women, or whether those similarities and differences exist, or how they came to be; I'm hoping that this class might go beyond that. I've done a lot of reading on my own about living in the metaphorical space outside the gender binary, but I'd really like to learn more in a more classroom type of setting, as opposed to just teaching myself.  

I believe that that's a decent summary of what I'm looking for. Currently, I can only think of one question that I had during the first class: What is the definition of gender, for the purposes of this class?