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"Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl--or above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore more than one hundred different scenarios that embrace numerous definitions of gender across the world, throught history, and in the ever-widening realms of your imagination. Jump headfirst into this refreshingly creative exploration of the ways gender colors every shade and shape of our world. --
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Dr. Drew has spent decades talking to teens and young adults about sex and relationships, so he and his daughter take on a new generation of knowledge that incorporates current concerns with TCB: trust, compassion, and boundaries. Quizzes, real questions from patients, and life-experience from Paulina help the team tackle some of the toughest stuff to talk about.
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Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing...
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Be Well at NPL Recommends: Masculinity + Mental Health
Your Mind Matters: a Mental Health Initiative from Be Well at NPL
Your Mind Matters: a Mental Health Initiative from Be Well at NPL
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"A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek exhibited "feminine" qualities. The men in her life immediately...
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"She/he/they/them. Why do we use gender pronouns? And why do some people wish to be referred to as "they"? What is gender identity all about? Students will learn to understand these terms and the reasons behind them. They will also learn how to deal with questions they may have about gender identity"--
10) Flower girl
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"Nicki's favorite aunt is getting married, and Nicki is excited to be the Flower Girl: she is all in for love and pretty petals. But when the family goes shopping to find outfits for the wedding, Nicki doesn't feel like herself in any of the dresses her mom and aunt pick out for her, and all her happiness and excitement for the wedding evaporates. Nicki must find her voice--and her own style of expression to match it--to make Aunt Carmela's big day...
12) The gender wheel
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""This is our world. Like many things in nature it's round and holds everyone at the same time. This is the Gender Wheel. Like our world it's round and holds everyone at the same time too..." In 2010 Maya introduced the Gender Wheel and the Gender Team in the Gender Now Coloring Book. It was a jam-packed coloring extravaganza exploring bodies, nature and history in relation to multiple gender identities. It also opened up the possibility of play and...
13) Desert queen
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"This picture book biography in verse follows the life of beloved Rajasthani drag performer Queen Harish, known as the Whirling Desert Queen of Rajasthan. Lit by an inner fire and propelled by a family tragedy, Harish defied the gender conventions of middle class Indian life, battled discrimination and intimidation, and eventually grew up to dance with Bollywood movie stars and on stages across the world. Jyoti Gopal's rhythmic phrases evoke the particular...
15) Who you will be
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New parents invite their baby to express themselves through whatever color feels right to them.
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"Un día, tras salir de la piscina, mientras regresa a casa en tren con su abuela, Julián ve a tres mujeres vestidas con unos trajes espectaculares. Sus cabelleras flotan en el aire con brillantes colores, sus vestidos tienen colas de pescado y su regocijo inunda el vagón del tren. Cuando Julián llega a casa, hechizado por la magia que acaba de ver, solo piensa en vestirse como ellas con su propio fabuloso disfraz de sirena: se pone una cortina...