(Video research) The Gender Tag: Authentic Gender Expression

Ashley Wylde

• What is gender? How do we learn gender? What does it mean? What does it look like? What does it feel like?
• The Gender Tag Project:

• Even if you haven’t thought about your gender identity before you still have one?
• No one person experiences gender in the same way
• Gender is socially constructed
• Confusion

• What is Gender?

Gender describes characteristics that a society or culture delineates as masculine or feminine.

(we choose)

• Gender is not determined by biological sex
• Western: Male and Female biological sex is different to their actual gender
• Binary, socially we are given male and female
• Gender is socially and culturally constructed
• Different gender systems across different cultures
• Gender is taught and learnt
• Normative ideas of gender are reinforced