Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 25: Transmasculinity + Child Development
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 25: Cathy + remus talk about transmasculinity + gender development in children. remus discusses masculinity through two different trans memoir comics by Higu Rose + Victor Martins, placing the narratives into a new historical canon. Cathy shares the latest in transgender child development research, focusing on younger children, including statistics, books + lesson plans.
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Episode Links:
Higu Rose - Link (mature)
Victor Martins - Link
Hillary Chute, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. New York: HarperCollins, 2017 - Link
Charles Hatfield, Alternative Comics, UP Mississippi 2005 - Link
Margaret Galvan, “‘The Lesbian Norman Rockwell’: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks.” American Literature 90, no. 2 (2018): 407-438.
Jay Prosser, Second Skins, U Columbia Press 1998 - Link
Raewyn Connell, Masculinities, 2nd ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 2005. - Link
Riki Anne Wilchins, “What Does it Cost to Tell the Truth?” In Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, 33-40. Ann Arbor: Firebrand Books, 1997.
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. - Link
Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, “How To Bring Your Kids Up Gay”, Social Text 1991 - Link
Olson, K. R., & Enright, E. A. (2018). Do transgender children (gender) stereotype less than their peers and siblings? Developmental Science, 21(4), 1.
Dunham, Y., & Olson, K. R. (2016). Beyond Discrete Categories: Studying Multiracial, Intersex, and Transgender Children Will Strengthen Basic Developmental Science. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17(4), 642–665.
Slesaransky-Poe, G., & Garcia, A. M. (2009). Boys with Gender Variant Behaviors and Interests: From Theory to Practice. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 9(2), 201–210.
Fast, A. A., & Olson, K. R. (2018). Gender Development in Transgender Preschool Children. Child Development, 89(2), 620–637.
Early Findings from the TransYouth Project: Gender Development in Transgender Children, Kristina R. Olson & Selin Gülgöz, University of Washington, Department of Psychology, Child Development Perspectives - Link
Mangin, M. (2018). Supporting Transgender and Gender-Expansive Children in School. Phi Delta Kappan, 100(2), 16–21.
“That’s a (Gender) Stereotype!” Lesson plan elementary - GLSEN
“The Breakdown” - Lesson plan for older students - GLSEN
Crisp, T., & Hiller, B. (2011). “Is This a Boy or a Girl?”: Rethinking Sex-Role Representation in Caldecott Medal-Winning Picturebooks, 1938-2011. Children’s Literature in Education, 42(3), 196–212.
When Aidan Became a Brother. (2019). Publishers Weekly, 266(15), 65–68.
Books:
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff + Kaylani Juanita.
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni
The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni, Tristan Jimerson
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Queer Cartoonists Database - Link
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