(Video research) Gender assigned to us at birth should not dictate who we are

Sarah McBride

• Faced misogyny and sexism
• Pop Culture, television, politics, fashion, movies, telling us what it means to be a real women.

(video research) beyond the gender binary

Yee Won Chong

• Harassment in the bathrooms
• Don’t use humour

questionnaire - primary research

http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/3CARJ/

We felt that it was very important to carrying out some primary research and in particular a questionnaire in order to gain both quantitative and qualitative data. We felt that we needed to gain an understanding of what society knows about Gender Neutrality in order to have an idea of what to explore in our project. We asked several questions surrounding gender discrimination and also wanted to see if society knew if there was a way of avoiding gender discrimination. Here we attempted to indirectly diverge the person towards gender neutrality and if people did not know of a way to avoid gender discrimination we would come to the conclusion that they perhaps didn't know about gender neutrality. This would then allow us to decide on a motive for our project, and in this instance the motivation would be to educate the audience about gender neutrality and raise awareness. 

Judith Butler - Theorist

Judith Butler is an American philosopher and a gender theorist who played influential role in shaping modern feminism. She is most recognisable for a her book “Gender Trouble” which promotes the notion that Gender is “performative” meaning that “gender is the repeated stylisation of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance”.

She believes that gender roles are constructed by society which form the stereotypical categorisation of gender. She feels that gender is developed, stating that " nobody is a gender from the start" and that "Gender is culturally formed" but “it's also a domain of agency or freedom". The idea that gender ideals is formed by society suggests that those who do not follow these ideals will have to “resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms” which comes in the form is gender discrimination.

Gender discrimination is a situation in which someone is treated less well because of their sex, usually when a woman is treated less well than a man. We as a group found this very interesting as through our research we found that one of the main purposes of the Gender Neutral movement is to avoid gender discrimination. We believe that gender neutrality allows a person to be judged on who they are as a person rather than their gender and if the conform to gender stereotypes. Being gender neutral allows people to do and act however they feel.

when no gender fits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/when-no-gender-fits-a-quest-to-be-seen-as-just-a-person/2014/09/20/1ab21e6e-2c7b-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html

When no gender fits
This is the story of Kelsey, a non-binary person who has encountered several issues during their teenage years, feeling that the world we live in insists that we have to choose between male and female and there's no other way to identify ourselves.
Luckily enough, Kelsey has discovered that they are not alone. Many people feel the way they feel.
Many people have fought and still fight to make societies understand that gender identity is ''one's personal experience of one's own gender.''

• Which box do you check when you don't belong in any box? 
• How do you navigate a world that identifies with male or female and the place that feels most right to you is neither?
• “I’m non-binary, agender, and use they/them/their pronouns.''
• Using a pronoun that feels right: ex.: They.
• Defining gender on a spectrum rather than as a binary.
• Being agender is like living on an island apart from the rest of the world, so it is important to learn thinking of people in terms of how close they are to reaching this island.

production calendar

calendar.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
26/09/16 Brief launched	27/09/16	28/09/16 Visit to ‘Tate Modern’	29/09/16 First production meeting. 12pm-3pm	30/09/16 Second pm meeting with JM & SV.	01/10/16	02/10/16
03/10/16 Induction workshops start Third pm *Short meeting with Julie	04/10/16 Short meeting with julie(approved idea of survey?)	05/10/16	06/10/16	07/10/16	08/10/16	09/10/16
10/10/16 Fourth pm	11/10/16	12/10/16	13/10/16	14/10/16 Fifth meeting Alessia & Gabie meeting.	15/10/16	16/10/16
17/10/16 Sixth pm *Short meeting with Julie	18/10/16 Seventh pm +      Audio test day	19/10/16	20/10/16	21/10/16 Eighth pm	22/10/16	23/10/16
24/10/16 Tutorial with JM & SV roberto?	25/10/16 Filming Day 2nd?	26/10/16 Filming Day	27/10/16 Filming/Editing	28/10/16 Editing rough cut	29/10/16 Editing	30/10/16 Editing
31/10/16 Editing & Presentation editing test paint	01/11/16 Presentation	02/11/16	03/11/16 DEADLINE @ 10

fingering fruit- Stephanie Sarley

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRfQuRn-dFRH1953qz0RorQ/videos
http://stephaniesarley.com/videos/
 We also found the sexualisation of objects interesting and felt that Stephanie Sarley's use of fruit was also interesting due to the role/identity that fruit has in Botany. In Botany a fruit is the ripened ovary or ovaries—together with seeds—from one or more flowers. The fruits of a plant are responsible for dispersing the seeds that contain the embryo and protecting the seeds as well. So we felt that this worked well in relating to the women's reproductive system and opening up various interpretations as to why the fruit was being touched in a sexual manner.