Recommendation: Beyond the Binary
quarridors recommends…
One-off online radio-style talk show
This radio-style program discussed how the media covers nonbinary and nonconforming gender and what we can do to make that coverage better.
Hosted by Avory Faucette of QueerFeminism.com and Radically Queer, it featured guests with expertise in gender-neutral parenting, nonbinary identities, and media coverage of transgender issues, including Arwyn Daemyir, creator of Raising My Boychick; Gunner Scott, Director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition; Nat Titman, creator of Practical Androgyny and the Nonbinary.org wiki; and Marilyn Roxie, creator of Genderqueer Identities and intern at the Center for Sex & Culture.
A recording of the entire show is available online (MP3).
The guests looked closely at some misunderstandings the media makes and how we can take action to educate and improve coverage. They considered topics including major media coverage of gender-neutral parenting and education in 2011, the media’s refusal to take supermodel Andrej Pejic’s stated identity seriously, and what articles on genderqueer and other identities get right and wrong. They also discussed the best way to cover less familiar gender identities, how journalists can describe gender in a way that is less harmful to nonbinary or questioning individuals, and how blogs and social media are changing the conversation.
Although the majority of guests were from the USA, Nat added a United Kingdom perspective.
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August 12th, 2023 at 8:55 am |
Hello,
I am a trans person and I am doing a research on gender creative parenting and non-binary youth. I would LOVE to listen to this podcast, but it doesn’t seem to be available anymore… I tried to download it and got an error message. Are there any other means?
Many thanks in advance!
Tatian
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