Resilience is our ability to adapt or bounce back from adversity such as traumatic-stress. Here are three tips for raising resilient gender creative kids!
A common question Brent & I get asked is, “How do you respond to random people who ask you about or assume Zoomer’s gender?” Here is a breakdown of what typically happens in our day-to-day interactions with strangers...
When Z was just a wee gestating bean in my belly at 26 weeks, someone asked Brent the usual question, “What are you having?” Brent told them that we were going to wait and be surprised. The person asked, “How do you even prepare for that?...
A hairstyle is an important part of someone’s identity –heck– hair has the ability to make or break someone’s day! We in the gender creative community celebrate individuality and root for the rebels!
There have only been a handful of times in Zoomer’s life (two years so far) where we have had to navigate formal documents and requests for a sex or gender designation
A hairstyle is an important part of someone’s identity –heck– hair has the ability to make or break someone’s day! We in the gender creative community celebrate individuality and root for the rebels!
During my research for the Sasha and Storm post, I came across an article about Storm and something written in it jumped out at me: Rolling out of the “media hoopla” that followed the Star story - people would yell “boy” or “girl” at Storm...
This post is part e-introduction and part thank-you-note for the parents of Sasha and Storm. Sasha and their, now his, family live in the UK and Storm and their family live in Canada. It was coming across news articles about Sasha and Storm...
Tomgirl is a short 14-minute film that introduces us to Jake, an inspirational, gender-creative child. Jake’s confidence, style, humor and kindness are inspirational and charming, and provide a visual example of the beautiful life a child...
Opponents of gender-free parenting often liken the practice to a “social experiment,” specifically, an experiment they believe will have disastrous consequences requiring infinite hours of therapy for the child. As a social scientist, I believe...