College Staff Retreat | "Beyond Binaries: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation" - Jessica Hille, Ph.D.

Description: 

This session will discuss sex, gender, and sexual orientation as distinct but intersecting concepts. Despite widespread, long standing social and political assumptions, none of these categories exist as simple binaries (i.e., female/male, woman/man, gay/straight). This session will introduce evidence-based, nonbinary understandings of sex, gender, and sexual orientation, as well as an overview of the biological and cultural factors that produce identity categories and lived experiences. 

Bio:

Dr. Hille is a gender and sexuality scholar and the Assistant Director for Education at the Kinsey Institute. In this role, she has overseen the development of an online continuing education program, serves as a co-director for the Scholarly Concentration in Human Sexuality and Health with the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Medicine, and relaunched the Kinsey Institute Lecture Series, among other initiatives. Dr. Hille earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, an L.L.M. in Health Law and Policy from the University of Washington – Seattle, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.