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
If I had a dollar for every time someone rolled his/her/their eyes at me for pointing out that eating is gendered, I would have quite a few dollars. Maybe I receive so many eye rolls because most people know gendered eating is a thing...
The basic premise of raising Zoomer in a gender-creative way relies on the fact that sex and gender are not the same thing. This article defines the foundational terms and concepts that our readers should know to get the most out of...
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...