Who created the Genderbread person?
Sam Killerman
One way to simplify the many components of gender identity, gender expression, sexuality, and biological sex is by using the Genderbread Person model, created and illustrated By Sam Killerman, author of itspronouncedmetrosexual.com and LGBT advocate.
What is the point of the Genderbread person?
The Genderbread Person’s comprehensive attention to the distinct nature of sex, gender, gender expression, and attraction supports improved understanding of how these dimensions can differ and how to embrace those whose combination of identities within those dimensions don’t reflect societal assumptions about gender.
How do you make Genderbread?
The three main ways people facilitate the Genderbread Person are either making it personal for the participants (as in the example lecture above), using themselves to make it personal (with anecdotes or personal examples), or using generic/fictional examples.
What gender is a unicorn?
Most common beliefs state that all unicorns are male. However, these beliefs have no real foundation. Moreover, unicorns are usually associated with grace, purity, and innocence, all virtues of fair maidens and fairies.
What is a gender unicorn?
The Gender Unicorn provides a breakdown of the differences between gender identity, gender expression, biological sex, and physical & emotional attraction.
What is the size of a genderbread person poster?
With a full text walkthrough of the gender concepts, this is a printer-friendly version of Genderbread Person 4.0 Poster. Formatted to be printed on U.S. letter-sized paper (8.5″x11″), and also larger format 18″x24″ (a relatively standard poster size, and easy to find a printer who can help you out).
What is a genderbread person?
Moving into the next handout, the genderbread person is a diagram that helps us understand gender and sexuality, and the parts that make up both. This model is meant to accurately depict the complexity of how these concepts show up in our society; it is not a depiction of what dream society could be.
What do participants know about gender and sexuality?
Participants will be able to understand that there is a difference between gender and sexuality. Participants will be able to describe the difference between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and attraction.
What is gender identity and attraction?
Gender identity is our psychological sense of gender. On the line below that, pointing to the heart, we can write “Attraction.” Attraction is the different ways we feel pulled to other people, often categorized based on our gender and the gender of those we feel drawn to. This categorization is referred to as sexual orientation.