Tots in Genderland is a multimedia experiment in thinking aloud, and in community, about the gendering of earliest childhood. I’d love it if you’d join me.
Here’s how GWP readers can get involved:
1. Watch my TEDxWindyCity talk Born That Way?, which brings to life key research about the gendering of earliest childhood. Taking us through a personal journey peppered with blunders and epiphanies, I challenge us to move beyond pink and blue and learn something new about gender from society’s smallest experts: our kids. Please leave a comment, post on FB/Twitter, and pass the link on. (It just went live – tonight!)
2. Take the Born That Way? quiz below and test your Gender + Tots IQ. (The answers are in the talk.)
3. Post a photo of a young child breaking, or upholding, gender norms on the Pinterest board Tots in Genderland. Email me to join this board and pin freely – deborah(at)deborahsiegelwrites(d0t)com
4. Visit The Pink and Blue Diaries for random musings on gender, parenthood, writing, and life — and add random musings of your own.
5. Suggest a site to add to the Tots in Genderland Community Well by emailing me at deborah(at)deborahsiegelwrites(dot)com
Ok, you’ve read to the bottom. Huzzah! Ready for the quiz? I bet you GWP readers will know the answers. Heck, some of you even wrote the books. Have at it:
Test Your Gender + Tots IQ
1. Children rarely have a firm sense of what “gender” they are until they are how old?
a) 1 year
b) 2 years
c) 3 years
2. This past holiday season, which country produced a toy catalog featuring a boy cradling a doll and a girl riding a race car?
a) the US
b) Sweden
c) France
3. True or false: In a study of 120 pregnant women conducted shortly after amniocentesis allowed women to learn fetal sex, those knew they were carrying females described their fetuses movements as gentle, quiet, and rolling while those carrying males described kicks, jabs, and a saga of earthquakes.
Answers: in the talk.
Oh – and I launched a new site. Everything’s moved over to here: www.deborahsiegelwrites.com. Thanks so much for being in this all with me, dear GWP community. I’ll see you there!
