Price: $24.95
Page Count: 200
Publication Date: September 2013
ISBN: 978-1-927335-18-5
Chasing Rainbows is a celebratory exploration of gender fluid parenting through critical contemplation, an openness to multiple gender trajectories and most importantly, unwavering love. Indomitable and inspiring, these individuals and families risk placing themselves on the front line of critical resistance in order to live authentically. Challenging the boundaries of our own gender literacy, Chasing Rainbows facilitates self-reflection on how we parent and how we were parented within deeply entrenched systems, expectations and understandings of gender.
—Reece Malone, Certified Sexologist, Sexuality Educator
Chasing Rainbows dares to ask how we as parents can guide our children—and ourselves—not only beyond the confines of the gender binary, but beyond the notion of gender itself. Inspired by past classics like The Transgender Child and Growing Up Free, Chasing Rainbows is a parenting revolution within the pages of a book. I can’t wait to see how parenting practices, gender “norms,” and in fact, all of society, may change as a result of its publication.
—Rachel Pepper, author of Transitions of the Heart
Chasing Rainbows is an important and engaging addition to the field. It represents that rare theoretically sophisticated academic text that is also a personal and captivating “pleasure” read. Just as importantly, it is also an impassioned manifesto for a community of practice around gender fluid parenting practices.
—Jason Laurendeau, Sociology Department, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
New Article: Toronto Star Story on Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Introduction
Fiona Green and May Friedman
Chapter One:
Dancing in the Eye of the Storm: The Gift of Gender Diversity to Our Family
Kathy Witterick
Chapter Two:
Get your Gender Binary Off My Childhood! Towards a Movement for Children's Self- Determination
Jane Ward
Chapter Three:
The Boy in the Red Dress
Susan Goldberg
Chapter Four:
Trapped in the Wrong Body and Life Uncharted: Anticipation and Identity within Narratives of Parenting Transgender/Gender Non-conforming Children
Jessica Ann Vooris
Chapter Five:
Transgender Men's Self-Representations of Bearing Children Post-Transition
Damien Riggs
Chapter Six:
We're Having a Stanley
j wallace
Chapter Seven:
Between the Village and The Village People: Negotiating Community, Ethnicity and Safety in Gender Fluid Parenting
May Friedman
Chapter Eight:
Feminist Parents' Strategic use of Liminoid Experiences to Produce Sites of Empowerment for Young, Gender-Diverse Children
Sandra Schneider
Chapter Nine:
Complicating the Truth of Gender: Gender Literacy and the Possible Worlds of Trans Parenting
Jake Pyne
Chapter Ten:
Pink Butterflies and Blue Caterpillars
Arwen Brenneman
Chapter Eleven:
I Wish I Knew How to Make Cabbage Rolls:
An explanation of Why the Future of Ethnicity Relies Upon Gender Fluidity
Sarah Sahagian
Chapter Twelve:
The Parental Transition: A Study of Parents of Gender Variant Children
Elizabeth Rahilly
Chapter Thirteen:
Our Fluid Family: Engagement, Feminism and Expression
Fiona Joy Green, Barry Edginton and Liam Edginton-Green
