Please choose ONE of the following assignment options to complete:
OPTION 1: Listen to this episode of Hidden Brain: Nature, Nurture, And Our Evolving Debates About Gender (transcript available here). What does each of the three scientists featured say about gender? If we take each of their studies into consideration (that is, combine the insights from their research), what do we know about gender? What did you find interesting about this podcast? How does the information align with your experiences of sex and gender? How can we link the information in this podcast to the google slide lesson
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OPTION 2: Watch PBS HAWAII PRESENTS: A Place in the Middle and The Popolo Project: Black Liberation Beyond the Gender Binary. Describe five moments in each video that you found interesting, discuss why you made note of them, and how you can relate each point to our Google Slides lesson (or previous lessons from this course). Write a brief final wrap-up: what was your overall takeaway from these two pieces? What insights do the videos give us to today’s ideas about sex/gender and individual/ societal changes that need to occur for a more equitable world?
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OPTION 3: With a friend, partner, parent, sibling, or other person (person may remain anonymous), have a conversation in which you both answer the following questions about your experiences of gender at various societal interaction levels. Write about your answers and discuss what this process was like for you (what you learned by doing this exercise (related to both your own experiences of gender and how it compared to the other person’s and why you each had the thoughts/ ideas you did, and what it was like to talk about gendered experiences with another person). At least 500 words.
NOTE: this should be a friendly conversation – there are no wrong answers or experiences, just opportunities to talk, reflect and relate. If you find that this conversation becomes contentious, adversarial or otherwise not fun for either you or the person you are speaking with, please stop.
Questions:
Micro-level: How have YOU been treated as a person of your sex/gender? (Consider: What was one time you were critiqued about the way that you DID your gender? One time you were praised for doing your gender correctly? When, if ever, do you feel most aware that your gender performance is being judged?)
Meso-level: How have you seen people being treated differently at work, at school, in places of worship based on their gender? What kinds of rules have you seen being enacted based on gender? What are some of the ethnic/cultural expectations that YOUR culture holds for gender? What are some of the expectations or stereotypes held for people in your community based on gender?
Macro-level: What kinds of laws exist based on gender? How do you think the government, the military, the medical establishment, the criminal justice system, etc. perceive gender (and why do you think this?), and what effects do you think this has on people’s behaviors?
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