Visualizing Sexual Self-Identity: Gender's Big Bang - Atlanta Poly Weekend 2012
Channel: maymaym
Date: 2012-03-12

At the Atlanta Poly Weekend 2012 conference, social justice technologist and sexual freedom activist maymay facilitates a workshop on "visualizing sexual self-identity." In this workshop, acquire the theoretical and practical skills to discuss gender, sexuality, identity, and their many intersections with people across all levels of experience. Learn how analogy, bisociation, and visual representation can be used to articulate the relationships between who we are, who we're attracted to, and who we want to be.

Maymay is a social justice technologist and sexual freedom activist. More of his work can be found at http://maybemaimed.com/seminars

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Man and woman: that's it! Or is it? In 1948, Alfred Kinsey suggested that there were gradations in sexual orientation, breaking the stranglehold of a heterosexist society on the validity of sexual experience. Shortly thereafter, gay people and (to a lesser extent) bisexual people began entering public awareness, no longer forced into the invisibility of the closet. However, notions of sexual orientation are still tied to being either "a man" or "a woman." What if you're neither? Today, transgender individuals are on the forefront of challenging the gender binary. Going far beyond a simple scale like Kinsey's, new theories suggest that the shape of gender may actually look like multiple scales, a scatterplot, a color wheel, or even a "gender galaxy."

In this session, join maymay as he takes you on a trip "across the universe" to literally see the sights of sexual self-identity. Using an interactive white-boarding session featuring visualizations of theoretical gender models, he'll showcase the vast diversity of human sexual self-identity both within and beyond either sexual orientation or gender identity alone. We'll explore the "final frontier" within ourselves, and boldly go where no man, no woman, where NO ONE has gone before!

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
http://maybemaimed.com/cv/

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
http://atlantapolyweekend.com/