!The Gender Project! is a multimedia webzine that will explore issues of gender, social construction and performance in everyday life. The goal of the project is to create a collaborative electronic resource that incorporates Poetry, Photography, Prose, Art and qualitative Research to explore how people understand and enact gender across contexts such as race, sex, sexuality and class.
Utilizing feminist methodologies of centering voice in research and encouraging traditionally marginalized populations to not only be heard but to be understood is the center point of this project. We hope the project will incorporate voices of those across the gender spectrum and those who embody multiple forms of gender, including people who identify as genderqueer, male, female, trans and/or other forms of gender.
We believe that gender is a socially constructed interaction and performance that both reinforces and shapes how gender is thought of, treated and normalized in society. The aim of this project is to challenge the gender binary and to dispel myths of power/marginalization that overlay the gender dichotomy. The project aims to be user-friendly and accessible across groups and divisions so as to reach as many people in as many places as possible.
Also, visit and contribute to our blog space on gender at http://thegendergab.blogspot.com
If you are interested in this project and want to learn how the project was created and the reasons the co-creators created this website, feel free to read the dialogue paper addressing the creation of The Gender Project. Access that paper here.
Performing Gender - Dykes Do Drag
Announcement: We are currently seeking interview participants for an in-depth qualitative study of gender performativity. The next phase will include the interviews with people who have in some manner can be considered gender nonconformist. We have selected to enlist the insight of these individuals because we feel they have dealt more consciously with gender issues in their everyday lives. If you are interested and would like more information email us at thegenderproject@gmail.com
