.... These children stand as our best teachers in alerting us to the limitations and shortsightedness of Western theories and practices that operate from the assumption of binary, rather than nonbinary or fluid gender development, a trajectory that moves beyond the dichotomy of masculine-feminine. Gender as Soft...

...Chapter 4 addresses issues of race, sexuality, and the gendered division of labor that obtains in the Lucumí kitchen, as in other Black Atlantic spaces of religious food preparation. The roles played by women and homosexual, nonbinary, and genderqueer men in these traditions has been misrepresented...

... or GNC, (2) nonbinary, and (3) transgender characters. Within each, Millán considers how picture books engage children’s pronouns, gender or gender identities, and how this is informed by the child’s racial/ethnic or Indigenous (two-spirit) background, traditions, and ancestral knowledge, emphasizing...

...This chapter examines parents’ newfound awareness of nonbinary possibilities. These were often described as being “somewhere in the middle” of the spectrum, where a child “doesn’t have to be just one or the other.” Despite increasing sociopolitical emphasis on nonbinary, gender...

..., given new cultural contexts, opportunities, and awareness. “Gender-expansive” child-rearing often looks, fundamentally, very binary and gender-stereotypical, despite increasing visibility around nonbinary possibilities. And normalizing transgender experience, for many of these parents, often entails...

...For more than a decade, FORGE has been training victim service providers on how to better meet the needs of transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming survivors of intimate or sexual violence. This chapter synthesizes what FORGE has learned about the barriers between transgender intimate...