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 This is not a future without gender. Its just a future where gender just isnt all that important to people. To figure out what this world might be like, I talked to Ann Leckie, Meredith Talusan and Laurie Essig. Leckie is a science  stanley cup usa fiction author, who wrote the books Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy. I called Leckie because the main character in these novels is from a society called the Raadchai, where nobody cares a mugs stanley bout gender. Raadchai find it deeply confusing to interact with people in cultures that have male and female pronouns. But because English demands such pronouns, Leckie had to figure out how to get across the Raadchais lack of gender assumptions 鈥?so she just calls everyone  she.  This is something science fiction writers have tackled before. In the book The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin, the people of a sexless society are all referred to as  he.   LeGuin later talked about regretting this decision . Leckie went the other way. The effect in the books is that there are moments when you realize as a reader that a character you thought was a woman is actually a man. But the idea that gendered pronouns might confuse people is not science fiction. In fact, Meredith Talusan grew up without gendered pronouns and ha stanley thermos s written about how that impacted their ideas of gender. Now Talusan is an LGBT staff writer at BuzzFeed, and shes the one who suggested looking into this future. Talusan is also working on a project with Medium called Gender  Honu This Complicated Remote Brings Back Terrible Memories
 that Jesse Galef  half of the brother/sister duo behind Measure of Doubt 鈥?a fantastic blog dedicated to rati stanley butelka onality, science and philosophy  got to thinking about this exact question; what might a rational student from each house actually read  He writes: I realized that theres actually quite a lot of potential for interesting reading in each house. Ravenclaws would be interested in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and mathematics; Gryffindors in combat, ethics, and democracy; Slytherins in persuasion, rhetoric, and political machination; and Hufflepuffs in productivity, happiness, and the game theory of cooperation. After much brainstorming, Galef produced four incredibly well-thought-out reading lists  one for each house , photographed their physical counterparts on a bookshelf, and even created a series of Facebook cover images,  8220 o that you can display your pride both in rationality and in your chosen house. Here   the cover image for Gry stanley kubek ffindor  click to enlarge , followed by its corresponding booklist. For the other houses ; lists, go check out Measure of Doubt. List: A Game of Thrones The Guns of August Herodotus  The Histories The Landmark Thucydides The We stanley cup becher stern Way of War The Art of War The Killer Angels Meditations The Strategy of Conflict Arms and Influence The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory The Future of Freedom Politics The Republic The Great Political Theories v.1 The Great Political Theories v.2 On the Social Contra