I was reminded yesterday by a parent that doing gender work with children has a much greater reach than just the kids involved in the work. The parent tweeted a story about their child correcting the parent’s gendered assumptions and credited the work I had done with the child’s class last year. This goes to… Continue reading Impact beyond kids
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Explaining nonbinary to children
I’ve explained what nonbinary means here, but how do we explain it to a child? Well, I think it helps to start by explaining the word binary. Pretty young kids will know the words unicycle, bicycle and tricycle. Either on their own or with a bit of prompting, maybe some pictures, they’ll figure out the… Continue reading Explaining nonbinary to children
“So she’s nonbinary?”
So what happens when you talk to kids about being nonbinary? I’ll share lots of stories about that, but let me start off with this one. I just want to show the simple types of conversations that happen. In this case I was chatting with Olivia and Harper, two 4 year olds, after we read… Continue reading “So she’s nonbinary?”
Nonbinary
What does nonbinary mean? Very simply put, it means not two groups. So a nonbinary framework of gender is one that recognises there’s not just two genders (e.g. only girls and boys). That’s the easy bit. When someone is talking about their gender and they say they are nonbinary it can mean different things. What… Continue reading Nonbinary