#GreatReads: ‘Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting’

By Andrea James on September 5, 2020 1:45 pm

Dr. Kyl Myers is one of many parents in the gender creative parenting movement, and Kyl's wonderful new book comes out next week. It's called Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting. A few years ago, our NatGeo show [Read more...]

Google Image Recognition AI Will No Longer Label People “Man” or “Woman” to Avoid Bias

By Andrea James on February 21, 2020 1:17 pm

Artificial Intelligence can reflect the bias of its programmers, which is why Google announced to users that their Cloud Vision API product will no longer label images as "man" or "woman." In an email reported by [Read more...]

Christmas Gift Idea: Preferred Pronoun T-Shirt

By James St. James on December 13, 2019 11:34 am

It's the Miriam-Webster Word of the Year! "They" has gone from the singular pronoun your grampa said was too confusing to use, to being on the lips of nearly everyone in 2019 thanks to celebrity "they/thems" Sam Smith, Nico Tortorella, Tom Phalen, Jacob Tobia, and Asia Kate … [Read more...]

23 Unnecessarily Gendered Products

By James St. James on March 17, 2015 3:29 pm

What the what? Kleenex for men? Girl-y ear plugs? Boyish sprinkles for boyish cupcakes? WHYYYYYY? From the UnnecessarilyGenderedProducts tumblr: "Pink and flowers are not the problem! The problem is that the pink … [Read more...]

Facebook’s 50 New Gender Options

By James St. James on February 14, 2014 11:01 am

Yesterday, Facebook revamped their gender settings to allow for options other than just male or female. The feature was designed to help transgender users by giving them 50 options to describe their gender. The site has also updated its setting to allow users to select a neutral … [Read more...]

PSA of the Day: Gender Grammar 101

By James St. James on May 12, 2013 8:22 am

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I Don’t Know What This Means

By James St. James on March 30, 2013 5:06 pm

Genderqueer theory isn't really my bag, but I think I identify as "blue with a pink leg," although some days I'm definitely pink-headed. Then again, that pink skirt on the … [Read more...]