The Toymaker Project

On February 18, 2021, I presented a talk entitled “Bodies, Gender, and Sex-Positivity” in an online session hosted by the Women of Rodef Shalom. Below you can find a video of the talk, the talk slides, as well as links to other resources.

Resources from the talk:

• Native Land (maps of Native American and other Indigenous people’s traditional lands)
• My Gender Workbook and My New Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein
• The Gender Unicorn by TSER (Trans Student Educational Resources)
• “What is Gender?” by West Anderson
• The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary by Cade Hildreth
• The cisgender, transgender, and non-binary umbrellas diagram by Dani (@lesbijun)
• Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex by Dr. Marty Klein
• The pizza metaphor is from this fabulous TED Talk by Al Vernacchio
• “What I Mean When I Say I’m Sex-Positive” by Cliff Pervocracy (which includes a fabulous section on what Cliff doesn’t mean)
• The Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity home page, and you can check out the work of all of our awesome grantees here and our partners here. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.
• Scarleteen has tons of resources for teens and emerging adults
• Pleasure Pie is a grassroots sex-positive org with some fabulous sex-positive zines and other resources
• The Center for Sexual Pleasure & Health offers awesome virtual workshops on a wide range of sexuality-related topics
• The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom promotes consent in the BDSM community & maintains a directory of kink-aware professionals