The So Gender Project
Suggestions From YOU
Survey Question:
What is your favorite/most valuable piece of media in your understanding or in relation to your feelings on gender?
(this can include books, poems, songs, artwork, social media, etc...) Please specify a platform and content creator if you choose social media!
Book: GenderQueer - Maia Kobabe
They/Them, California
TikTok: Dylan Mulvaney
She/Her, Age 30, New York
Song: IDK if I’m a Boy - Blue Foster
Any Pronouns, Age 20, Maryland
Media Recommendations from the Editor
updated regularly as they are reviewed and considered!
*I encourage anyone interested in reading any of my recommendations to look through your local library or independent book shop, let's keep our well earned money out of the pockets of big corporations!*
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
by Kit Heyam
Kit Heyam explores the effects of colonization and the spread of Christianity and how they affect modern ideas of gender within this research piece. Providing case studies and analytical discussion on the history of gender, they focus not only on the history we have access to, but also on how history was lost and is still being recovered.
In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies
By Dianna E. Anderson
Dianna Anderson writes within their personal identity as a nonbinary scholar in this research based analysis piece in order to attempt to answer the variety of questions that surround the nonbinary community both within the community and the questions often posed by outside perspectives. By moving beyond the medical lens of gender historically and instead focussing on social history, Anderson moves beyond the historical bias that has been developed due to colonization.
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Jeff Garvin managed to write this 330 page novel without once revealing the main character, Riley's, assigned gender at birth. Focussing on his perspective of what gender-fluidity might feel like, he discusses trans and queer hate crimes within news and media and was initially inspired to write this novel after a conversation with friends about a news story regarding a transgender woman's right to use the women's restroom in a court case.