{"id":5752,"date":"2013-03-14T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T04:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2013-03-14T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T04:33:29","slug":"mama-wpen-introducing-tots-in-genderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2013\/03\/14\/mama-wpen-introducing-tots-in-genderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama w\/Pen: Introducing&#8230;Tots in Genderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tots in Genderland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahsiegelwrites.com\/writings\/tots-in-genderland\/\">Tots in Genderland<\/a> is a multimedia experiment in thinking aloud, and in community, about the gendering of earliest childhood.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d join me.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how GWP readers can get involved:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Watch my <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxwindycity.com\/\">TEDxWindyCity<\/a> talk <a title=\"Born That Way?\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jM-PNwUHEQ8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Born That Way?<\/em><\/a>, 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&#8217;s smallest experts: our kids. Please leave a comment, post on FB\/Twitter, and pass the  link on. (It just went live &#8211; tonight!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Born that way? Deborah Siegel at TEDxWindyCity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jM-PNwUHEQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Take the <em>Born That Way?<\/em> quiz below and test your Gender + Tots IQ.\u00a0 (The answers are in the talk.)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Post a photo of a young child breaking, or upholding, gender  norms on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/deborahsiegel\/tots-in-genderland\/\">Pinterest board Tots in Genderland<\/a>. Email me to join this board and pin freely &#8211; deborah(at)deborahsiegelwrites(d0t)com<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Visit <a title=\"The Pink and Blue Diaries\" href=\"http:\/\/deborahsiegel.tumblr.com\">The Pink and Blue Diaries<\/a> for random musings on gender, parenthood, writing, and life \u2014 and add random musings of your own.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Suggest a site to add to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahsiegelwrites.com\/writings\/tots-in-genderland\">Tots in Genderland Community Well<\/a> by emailing me at deborah(at)deborahsiegelwrites(dot)com<\/p>\n<p>Ok, you&#8217;ve read to the bottom.\u00a0 Huzzah!\u00a0 Ready for the quiz? I bet you GWP readers will know the answers.\u00a0 Heck, some of you even wrote the books.\u00a0 Have at it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Your Gender + Tots IQ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Children rarely have a firm sense of what &#8220;gender&#8221; they are until they are how old?<br \/>\na) 1 year<br \/>\nb) 2 years<br \/>\nc) 3 years<\/p>\n<p>2. This past holiday season, which country produced a toy catalog featuring a boy cradling a doll and a girl riding a race car?<br \/>\na) the US<br \/>\nb) Sweden<br \/>\nc) France<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Answers: in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jM-PNwUHEQ8\">the talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and I launched a new site. Everything&#8217;s moved over to here:<a title=\"www.deborahsiegelwrites.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahsiegelwrites.com\"> www.deborahsiegelwrites.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks so much for being in this all with me, dear GWP community.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tots in Genderland is a multimedia experiment in thinking aloud, and in community, about the gendering of earliest childhood.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d join me. Here\u2019s how GWP readers can get involved: 1.\u00a0 Watch my TEDxWindyCity talk Born That Way?, which brings to life key research about the gendering of earliest childhood. 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