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Julian Vigo

Julian Vigo is a freelance writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Her latest book is Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and the Politics of Development (2015).

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At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.

Julian Vigo

5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics

Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics

The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.

Julian Vigo

27 Feb 2019 · 14 min read

Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science

Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science

While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.

Julian Vigo

18 Oct 2018 · 12 min read

Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?

Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?

It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.

Julian Vigo

31 Aug 2018 · 10 min read

The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities

The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities

We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”

Julian Vigo

3 May 2018 · 10 min read