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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.”
"There are parts of our community that are still very afraid and suffering and do not have a protection bubble." from our latest episode of #nakedandinsideout with the creators of the @thegenderbook Mel, Jay and Robin! #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #trans #transgender #bi #bisexual #gender #thegenderbook #allytool #genderscout (at New York, New York)
There are only two genders
The sane people
The gender book is a colorful, short book meant to educate and entertain- a sort of gender 101 for anyone and everyone. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Have you seen The Gender Book yet? A colorful visual primer on the world of gender. Available now in hardcover or pay what you can ebook! Check it out! They're also on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/thegenderbook
I got my copy of @thegenderbook in the mail! Woohoo #thegenderbook
This is soooo good. I love this book so much. Very well done. #theGenderBook #ImAGenderScout
the GENDER book is ready to launch their hardback after four years of crafting! Join us Thursday, May 15, 2014 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Lawndale Art Center in celebration of expressing “However you are works!” This will be the night the GENDER book hard backs are here for you and your community to use in fostering new colorful conversations of self-expression.
What is the GENDER book?
The GENDER book is a colorful visual primer on the world of gender. It’s a 90-page, fully-illustrated, educational book that teaches – and unteaches – some of the basics of gender theory in a way that is super fun, non-judgy, and full of COLOR. It’s a handsome hardback book that you can sit and read in one sitting.
Use this book as a resource for therapists and other health professionals, as well as in classrooms and organizations. Use this book to help you or someone you know come out to family and friends. This book can change the world for gender minorities, one opened mind at a time.
WWW.THEGENDERBOOK.COM
Come out to Center for Sex and Culture if you live in the bay area and support this! Hopefully I will see you there.