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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.