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The project began when creators Boston Bostian, Mel Reiff Hill, Jay Mays, and Robin Mack started to educate each other about what it means to live and express and perform one’s gender. The more they learned, the more they wanted to share with everyone else. They saw a need around them in transgender friends who wanted more options on their census forms, and transsexual lovers who had to educate their own therapists, and parents wanting to know how to be supportive of their gender-variant kids.
Their solution: the GENDER book. A fun and colorful resource, and similar to educational children’s books, the GENDER book illustrates the beautiful diversity of gender. Co-authored by community members who participate in GENDERpedia, the project’s wiki, and including a questionnaire collection of personal experiences of gender identity and expression from individuals world-wide, it will be as pertinent and useful for someone in primary school as it will be for a senior citizen. Roughly 45 pages in length, it will contain hand-drawn graphics, lots of color, and will be readable in one sitting.
The project’s 6-page “teaser,” the GENDER book(let), has already begun to create a dialogue across disciplines, communities, and artists around the goal of education and social justice for gender minorities, providing a much-needed resource for guerrilla and formal educators alike across the country.
The GENDER book will: educate community members and gender concepts and concerns; make available a free and widely disseminated resource that lists additional comprehensive resources for further learning; confirm and spread awareness of a universal vocabulary around gender; clarify common misconceptions and misunderstandings in order to promote acceptance of gender variant people; and alleviate societal oppression of gender minorities through education and tolerance-based learning.
Our hope, the creators stated, is to change the face of gender education in a way that is “approachable, easy to understand, and even beautiful.”
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The GENDER Book was selected to be on the Rainbow Project Book List, administered by ALA’s GLBT Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table in 2015. Congrats to the creators, Hunter Rook, Jay Mays and Robin Mack.
define:TraNsition is a collection of black and white portraiture photography, which illustrates the full-blown-beauty of trans* and gender independent individuals through the emerging art genre: poetography [poʊə-ˈtɑɡrə-fi]. The collection was created by Jan Johnson, a photographer who seeks to have the viewer “see things differently,” and the poem was written by rhythm poet Boston Davis Bostian.
A 101 Guide to the Reference Interview with Our Transgender Patrons - featuring the GENDER book Project. Presentation by Boston Davis Bostian during the Texas Library Association's State and District 8 Conferences in 2014 and 2013 respectively.