Understanding Gender

In this excerpt, the reader meets two characters from The Misfits: Addie, a girl who is exceptionally tall and smart for a middle schooler and Joe, who is creative and feminine in a way that makes his peers nervous.

In this video, young people reflect on society's rules for what males and females can and cannot do.

In this personal narrative, Clare explores multiple facets of the self and questions why gender is still discussed as a binary. He acknowledges the tortured lives that many have lived as a result of their gender ambiguity and declares that all those who "gawk," "gape," and "stare" at those who are different never get it right.

This article presents facts and statistics pertaining to the media's negative influence on female body image, the diet industry's booming numbers, and the link between media and peer pressure to look younger and stay thinner.

“You said that you were in the wrong body, that you should be a man.”

“I was very strict because I was afraid kids would discover I was gay.”

Young people speak out against fitting every person into one of two narrowly conceived gender categories.

Bella Abzug was a prominent liberal activist and politician in the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s rights, human rights and the environment.

Rigoberta Menchú has dedicated her life to fighting the injustices faced by the people of Guatemala and educating the world on the concept of indigenous people and fighting for their interests.

In this blog post, the author moves through a timeline of sexual aggression and violence imposed on her, or women around her, beginning in her childhood and going through having her own child.

This article discusses the some of the issues that can arise when institutions attempt to address the complexities of the gender spectrum.

This spoken word poem explores the limited definition of maleness that is sometimes passed from fathers to sons.