Introduction

According to the Ecology Global Network there are approximately 360,000 births per day in this world. When someone is born in a hospital one of the first things the doctors do is assign the child a sex based off of the biological parts present. From there the rest of the world takes over in making assumptions about the child’s gender based off of the assigned sex. As Sam Killerman said in The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender, “Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and often in this society it is assumed that one’s gender matches their assigned sex, or it is assumed that both of the previous match up with the individual’s gender expression. From there people also assume that one’s sexual or romantic orientations fit into neat normative boxes that coincide with gender expression and identity, and sex. In actuality though, these assumptions just are not reliable. With 360,000 births a day there will be some babies that are not born just male or female, there will be some babies that don’t identify as men or women, and there will be some babies that are not attracted to the opposite sex. The goal of this blog is to define and discuss a few of the many identities and orientations that people possess and to show that as a society we simplify topics we should not. There is beauty in diversity, so let’s shine a light upon it.


http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/

Monday, April 13, 2015

Gender Expression



Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, recently wore a dress to Coachella, a music festival in California, and received a lot of backlash for it. This is not the first time he has worn a dress or a skirt. Jaden likes to challenge the gender norms, and his parents are very supportive of it. Padawer's article that we read for class, "What's so Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?" talks about young boys who are genderfluid or who simply enjoy wearing dresses, and how their parents manage their identities, with school and other judgemental parents. Like Alex in the article, Jaden Smith still identifies as a boy and uses the pronouns "he", "his", and "him". He just likes to wear dresses, and does not like to feel constrained by society's rules for what boys can and cannot wear.




https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/586263806935961600

https://instagram.com/p/1LqYjTS9Vp/?taken-by=christiaingrey
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