Sexualitree
What Is The Genderbread Person And How Is It Being Used In Schools? by Rick Gonzales contains the following….
What Is The Sexualitree?
The Sexualitree comes from Sam Killermann and Karen Rayne, the creators of the Genderbread Person. It’s their most recent visual aid in this space, hoping to make sense of, and teach sexuality to learners in a way that helps make sense of what can be a very confusing subject. Essentially, the Sexualitree is laid out like it sounds, in the picture of a tree that breaks sexuality into three parts: cultural, relational, and intimate.
The goal with this visual aid is much like the Genderbread person in that the creators are hoping to give folks a chance to see sexuality in a different light, allowing them to group feelings around different pieces into each section. The Sexualitree asks users to look at the 45 (or so) different topics related to sexuality and to put them in the different leaves of the tree depending on how the person feels about each.
The three groups on the tree are labeled to help describe each. Cultural refers to the larger population, people in the city, state, or country one lives. Relational hones in on the people a person knows and has contact with on a regular basis. This would be family, friends, peers, and colleagues. And there is the intimate tier, defined by those you are engaged with on a sexual level (dating, etc). In this way, the creators are hoping to show that sexuality is across something of a spectrum, not necessarily always defined just on the intimacy level.
And like the Genderbread Person, the Sexualitree is geared towards discussion, trying to reframe what was once a taboo topic into terms students can begin to understand. The goal, of the creators, is to create comfort in this kind of discussion, normalizing the idea and also giving a window into a possible paradigm shift around sexuality as a whole. There’s been some controversy about this, and whether it should be taught in schools. It’s likely to continue being a hot-button topic in the short-term at least.
What are your thoughts on the Genderbread Person and the Sexualitree? Are these the kinds of visual aids you think should be on display in schools? Are they helpful to young learners?
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