Tag Archives: gender

easymckenna

14 year-old McKenna Pope has been campaigning for gender-neutral toys since last year when she petitioned Hasbro via Change.org to make their classic Easy Bake oven more amenable to boys.

In this perky TED Youth Talk, she makes her case to an audience of slack-jawed little ‘uns, most eloquently for one so young.

Related: Toys For Girls, and LEGO For Real Girls

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miriam

 

Let us have respect and hail women for whom breaking a glass ceiling is not a priority. Women who are content in their jobs but who value the time they have left for their families too.
Hey sisters we can’t have it all – the high flying career, the perfect family and perfect life. We have to make choices. But that doesn’t mean we are not making a valuable contribution. Let’s stop the whingeing and just get on with it.

I broke through glass ceiling – then changed my mind (Miriam Donohoe, Independent.ie)

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Gender-5-650x561Gender-6-650x496 Gender-4-650x486 Gender-3-650x504 Gender-2-650x518Alone-Time-JJ-Levine-06-685x541From the photoseries ‘Alone Time’ by JJ Levine, wherein apparently hetero couples are portrayed by a single model. Levine describes himself as a:

‘…queer and trans identifying artist…I never alter body shapes or gender traits digitally. These images are convincing by no means other than costume, makeup, pose, and gesture. This technical detail further demonstrates that bodies and gender presentations can be malleable or subject to change’.