My (New) Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein This smart, humorous workbook is essential for understanding gender as it relates to our sexual identities, our sexual roles, and the way we identify and our understand sexual orientation - as well as the experiences of others (including our loved ones). What Makes A Baby by Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth If there’s one book for helping kids understand sexuality and gender, this book (appropriate for all ages) is wonderfully accessible, complete and makes the “big talk” into a lovely narrative about family.

Warm, welcoming, fun, smart, explicit and illustrated, it leaves no question about adult sexuality unanswered and expertly weaves together sex information from our greatest sex researchers and contemporary sex educators alike. The Guide to Getting it On (7th edition) by Paul Joannides This book is so accurate and complete about everything surrounding sexual contact, there’s no need for individual books on specific acts, health concerns or even sexual mishaps. Violet’s comments for each selection are in italics below Titles marked ** were suggested by fellow sexuality expert Susie Bright She also took part in our Long Conversation event in 02010.Īmong 16 books on sexuality that Violet selected for the Manual are reference books science books erotica volumes on gender how to talk to kids about sex even robots.

A Long Now charter member, she gave one of our first ever Interval salon talks about privacy in 02014. Violet is also a journalist who writes about privacy and tech. For years she also reviewed books for San Francisco’s venerable sex-related retailer Good Vibrations.

Violet is the author of more than 40 books related to sex and sexuality. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work–one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier.Violet Blue with her personal library. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either.

My new gender workbook