Beyond Binaries: Exploring the Boundaries of Gender and Sexuality

Dr. Pat Tetreault, Director of the LGBTQA Resource Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln facilitated a workshop on gender April 16. This workshop helped participants explore and discuss attitudes and boundaries that we have learned about gender and sexuality. The workshop took a close look at how we have been raised in a culture that looks at biological sex and gender as if it exists in two distinct categories: Male/masculine and female/feminine although our life experiences are often quite different than these “fixed” constructs. Perceptions of individuals based on orientation and identity were discussed and ways to move beyond socially constructed binaries were explored. Participants were asked to complete a short survey related to the discussion. Sponsored by LACE, Alliance, TWRG, and the Departments of Psychology and Sociology and Anthropology