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Sex + gender

How do we create inclusive spaces
for conversations about gender identity and sexuality?

Field Trip: December 3rd, 2021 10-11:30 PT

Workshop: December 16th, 2021 12-1:30 PT

School is a place where young people forge their sense of self and cement how they relate to others. But the historical way schools speak about (or don’t) topics of gender and sexuality leaves a mark. It often reinforces detrimental stereotypes, silences those who don’t fit the “mold,” and leaves others confused and in the dark. 

Knowing the prominent role gender and sex play in our lives, how can we do better? How do we deliberately create space for many identities and proactively teach an empowering and liberating point of view?

Access to this month’s experiences start at $25.
 

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Field trip guests

  • EAST BAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS

    East Bay School for Boys is an independent school serving 6-8th graders in Berkeley, CA.

    Its mission is to empower middle school boys to cultivate their intellectual, physical, and emotional selves to become engaged, thoughtful, courageous, and justice-minded adults of tomorrow. They leverage the most current research on how boys learn to ensure they are poised challenge stereotypes and bring powerful, positive, and peaceful change to our world.

  • Joy as Resistance

    Joy As Resistance is a Denver-based nonprofit that envisions a world where LGBTQ+ youth know they are essential, celebrated, and empowered to live their authentic lives.

    Its mission is to create space for queer youth to hope for the future and find joy in the present by providing mental health, healing, and wellness supports.

  • RE/SCRIPTED

    RE/SCRIPTED is a a feminist education consulting practice.

    As a collaborative of feminist education practitioners, scholars and researchers, RE/SCRIPTED is dedicated to advancing the complexities of difference in gender and sexuality in education towards a more equitable, just and inclusive future. Its goals are to inspire, complicate, support and lead practices of intersectional theories of gender and difference with schools and organizations.

WORKSHOP (12.16.21)

Growing up, was puberty education provided in your school? Were you taught about all bodies and gender experiences or just the one that matched yours? Did you feel like you could speak openly, without shame or taboo, about changing bodies during adolescence with the grown-ups in your world?

For many adults, the answers to these questions can stir up some hard truths and mixed emotions. How can we prepare young people to better navigate puberty, if we ourselves did not experience this type of support?

In this workshop, we will explore: 1) why gender-inclusive puberty education is so important 2) activities and teaching methods that foster greater inclusivity in puberty education 3) top resources to help you implement gender-inclusive puberty programming in your area.

This virtual workshop will be led by guest facilitator Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW, founder and lead educator at Sex Positive Families. We encourage participants to pick up a copy of Melissa’s book Sex Positive Talks to Have With Kids, which offers an accessible way in to these topics through conversation starters, activities and resources.

50% of profits for this experience will be donated to Intersex Justice Project.