askchapo

Hey folks,

I was wondering if y'all had some suggested readings on gender and gender identity.

I feel like it's an area in which my understanding is noticeably weak and scaffolded on a more holistic understanding of social constructions and identity with a bunch of haphazard theoretical analogies gluing things together. There are a bunch of things that fall into understanding blackholes when you build the understanding by relating things to political and racial identity struggles lol.

I've seen some explanations geared towards other cis folks that never landed because it often relied on bringing awareness towards elements of gender that are typically unperceived but still seemingly strongly registered (I saw someone provide a partial explanation to some guys by having them imagine being referred to via gendered terms geared towards women. Seemed to have triggered some innate sense of discomforted but to be frank I didn't understand why, I've let plenty of folks do so as long as it didn't seem intentionally malicious).

I plan on squeezing trans liberation beyond pink or blue in my next few books but was looking for further things to engage with.

Thanks comrades