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The Genderbread Person version 4

A few hundred workshops, three years, and one novel edition later, I’m joyful to finally publish here my 4th version of the Genderbread Person. Examine it out, download it, and share it with your educator friend who is still using v3.x and say “well, actually…”

You can also head over to Genderbread.org, where this version (and some others) will be available, in all of its forms. Or just click the massive pink button and obtain a folder including all the graphics in this post.

While you’re doing that, I’ll explain what’s changed, why I changed it, and some thoughts regarding this little cookie in genderal.

The New Ingredients: What’s changed and why?

I illustrate way down below a bit of my rationale on how I construct changes to the cookie, but there’s one large thing I don’t tell there that makes more sense here: this version of the Genderbread Person (like all my versions and subversions since 2.0) is workshopped/tested/tweaked for quite awhile (in this case, years) before I publish it here, almost entirely queer (and mostly trans*) educators/feedbackers.

The changes I clarify below are what resulted from that process, and reflect something that isn’t pe

Genderbread Person

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Materials

  • Whiteboard or easel/paper and markers
  • Facilitator guide and participant handouts
  • Pens/pencils

Setup

(suggested) Draw the Genderbread Person on the whiteboard or flipchart document and have the continuums with the blanks drawn as well.

Facilitator Framing

  • This is the most lecture-heavy part of Safe Zone curriculum. If you are going to use the sample lecture give it a read a few times before doing it so that you can realize the flow and general sense of it before facilitating.

Goals & Teaching Outcomes

  • Participants will be competent to understand that there is a difference between gender and sexuality.
  • Participants will be able to describe the difference between biological sex, gender culture, gender expression, and attraction.
  • Participants will know at least one reason it is helpful and significant to recognize these alternative components within gender.

Process Steps

  1. Frame the activity. For example, “When we talk about ‘LGBTQ’ we’re talking about a lot of sexualities and genders. For the next few minutes, we’re going to focus in on gender itself. This graphic i

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    The Genderbread Person version 3

    Taking the lessons learned from version 2, and applying them to sexuality in a more meaningful way, here’s my best rendition of the genderbread person yet.

    Hey! Friend! I published a version 4 of my Genderbread Person! It’s at least 33.333% better than this one. (Tbh, I think it’s better in every way, and anything you like about 3.3 can easily be remixed into v4) Check it out.

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    Someone pointed out that I hadn’t shared this here yet, even though it’s been out for awhile. I am in disbelief about how long it’s taken me to get this up on the site. I really don’t know what happened — time flies? I created the first iteration of my version 3 of the genderbread person when I published my book back in 2013.

    I’ve posted it on Facebook, it’s been translated a scant times, it’s even been Santafied, and don’t have much of an explanation to distribute for why I’ve neglected to share it here. But… here it is! Sorry? Sorry.

    What’s new?

    There are two big differences from v2 to the most recent v3: separat

    Sam Killermann  ·  November 2011   ·  Visit the Site ›

    I published my first version of the Genderbread Person, an adorable, digestible model for understanding the complexity of gender, to accompany an essay in 2011 (and made a more printer-friendly version early in 2012).

    I went on to create several versions of this model, improving and tweaking it based on feedback, and it’s been adapted and remixed by countless other educators and organizations over the years.

    This was my spin on an idea that I was taught on back in college (in the premature 2000s), which goes back in unlike forms for many decades. You can read all about my versions, and the history, on the Genderbread Page of IPM.

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    Calculated using a mix of methods (and generally underrepresented due to limitations), here's what The Genderbread Person looks like by the numbers:

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    Resource Downloads2,724,000+
    Countries Reached108+
    Translated Languages (I know of)6

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