ABSTRACT
Gender, sex, and sexuality are fundamental categories in the organization of social relations and culture. Gender is made up of the social and cultural dynamics that define women, men, and people who do not fit neatly in these categories. Sex consists in the ideas we bring to biological differences. Sexuality is made up of desires and other sensations partially centred in the genitals and the social categories that are defined through these sensations. While strong forces define gender, sex, and sexuality as binary contrasts, the lived reality of many demonstrates considerable variation, both across and within societies, in how they are defined and experienced. Gender, sex, and sexuality are intersected with other social categories such as race and social class, and are defined and transformed by large-scale contexts such as colonialism, capitalism, and migration. Gender, sex, and sexuality are social, cultural, and political categories through which we classify, understand, and evaluate ourselves and each other.
