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It’s filled with books that have been challenged or banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the books that I’ve read are books like \u003cem>Hood Feminism\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Gabi, A Girl in Pieces\u003c/em>,” says one of the girls. She’s a 17-year-old senior with round glasses and long braids. The books, she says, sparked her feminist consciousness. “I just see, especially in my community, a lot of women being talked down upon and those books [were] really nice to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students live in a state that has banned more books than nearly any other, \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-joins-seven-other-groups-to-support-lawsuit-to-overturn-texas-book-ban-law-as-unconstitutional/\">according to PEN America\u003c/a>. 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That’s why NPR is not naming her, nor her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to jeopardize our teacher in any way, or the bookshelf,” another teenager explains. Until recently, he says, he was not naturally inclined toward reading. But the secret bookshelf opened a world of characters and situations he immediately related to. “Just to see Latinos, like LGBTQ,” he says. “That’s not something you really see in our community, or it’s not very well represented at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret bookshelf began in late 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1050013664/texas-lawmaker-matt-krause-launches-inquiry-into-850-books\">then-state Rep. Matt Krause sent public schools a list of 850 books\u003c/a> he wanted banned from schools. They might, he said, “make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made this teacher furious. “The books that make you uncomfortable are the books that make you think,” she told NPR. “Isn’t that what school is supposed to do? It’s supposed to make you think?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swung into action, calling friends to support a bookshelf that would include all of the books Krause wanted banned. Then she enlisted a student to put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through the list and found the ones that I thought were cool,” he recalled to NPR over a London Fog latte. “And then she gave me her [credit] card and I bought them. It was a lot of gay books, I remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same student came out as trans to his family while in high school. “I wouldn’t call them supportive, so I had to do a lot of sneaking around,” he said quietly. Now 19, he’s graduated and works as a host in a restaurant while deciding on his next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having these books, having these stories out there meant a lot to me, because I felt seen,” he said. Especially meaningful, he added, during a fraught time when Texas lawmakers banned transition-related care for teenagers. “Because of the way the laws are going for trans people especially,” he said, “it could be assumed that [my teacher is] grooming kids. And that would be terrible because that’s not what she’s doing at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR repeatedly reached out to former Texas lawmaker Matt Krause for comment and got no response. He is currently running for county commissioner in the Fort Worth area. The chief of communications for the public school district thanked NPR for “highlighting this very important topic,” but said, “we’re going to pass on this opportunity,” when asked to comment on how administrators are implementing policies around books that have been challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seeing a climate of fear — and a variety of self-censorship — going on by school leaders or librarians who do not understand the implications of the law or are fearful for their jobs,” said Carolyn Foote. She’s a retired English teacher and librarian who co-created the activist group \u003ca href=\"https://www.txfreadomfighters.us/\">Texas FReadom Fighters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey Meehan of the free speech advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/\">PEN America\u003c/a> says she’s watched things in Texas escalate. She points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban\">a teacher fired last year\u003c/a> for sharing a graphic novel with her students that showed Anne Frank having a romantic daydream about another girl. Another teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">featured on an NBC podcast\u003c/a> left her job under pressure after making literature available to students featuring a positive transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are taking books from schools and bringing them to police or sheriff offices and accusing librarians and educators of providing sexually explicit material to students,” Meehan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me nervous,” admitted the Houston teacher with the secret bookshelf. “I mean, this is absolutely silly that I am not free to talk about books without giving my name and worrying about repercussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, she hopes, it will no longer have to be a secret. 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It’s filled with books that have been challenged or banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the books that I’ve read are books like \u003cem>Hood Feminism\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Gabi, A Girl in Pieces\u003c/em>,” says one of the girls. She’s a 17-year-old senior with round glasses and long braids. The books, she says, sparked her feminist consciousness. “I just see, especially in my community, a lot of women being talked down upon and those books [were] really nice to read.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These students live in a state that has banned more books than nearly any other, \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-joins-seven-other-groups-to-support-lawsuit-to-overturn-texas-book-ban-law-as-unconstitutional/\">according to PEN America\u003c/a>. The Texas State Board of Education \u003ca href=\"https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2023-04-19/texas-house-advances-bill-that-would-remove-sexually-explicit-books-from-school-libraries\">passed a policy in late 2023\u003c/a> prohibiting what it calls “sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable books in public schools.” Over the past two years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2023-09-21/a-teacher-in-texas-was-fired-for-reading-from-an-anne-frank-graphic-novel\">Texas teachers have lost jobs \u003c/a>or been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">pressured to resign\u003c/a> after making challenged books available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher who created this bookshelf could become a target for far right-wing groups. That’s why NPR is not naming her, nor her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to jeopardize our teacher in any way, or the bookshelf,” another teenager explains. Until recently, he says, he was not naturally inclined toward reading. But the secret bookshelf opened a world of characters and situations he immediately related to. “Just to see Latinos, like LGBTQ,” he says. “That’s not something you really see in our community, or it’s not very well represented at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secret bookshelf began in late 2021, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1050013664/texas-lawmaker-matt-krause-launches-inquiry-into-850-books\">then-state Rep. Matt Krause sent public schools a list of 850 books\u003c/a> he wanted banned from schools. They might, he said, “make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made this teacher furious. “The books that make you uncomfortable are the books that make you think,” she told NPR. “Isn’t that what school is supposed to do? It’s supposed to make you think?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swung into action, calling friends to support a bookshelf that would include all of the books Krause wanted banned. Then she enlisted a student to put it together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through the list and found the ones that I thought were cool,” he recalled to NPR over a London Fog latte. “And then she gave me her [credit] card and I bought them. It was a lot of gay books, I remember that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same student came out as trans to his family while in high school. “I wouldn’t call them supportive, so I had to do a lot of sneaking around,” he said quietly. Now 19, he’s graduated and works as a host in a restaurant while deciding on his next move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having these books, having these stories out there meant a lot to me, because I felt seen,” he said. Especially meaningful, he added, during a fraught time when Texas lawmakers banned transition-related care for teenagers. “Because of the way the laws are going for trans people especially,” he said, “it could be assumed that [my teacher is] grooming kids. And that would be terrible because that’s not what she’s doing at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR repeatedly reached out to former Texas lawmaker Matt Krause for comment and got no response. He is currently running for county commissioner in the Fort Worth area. The chief of communications for the public school district thanked NPR for “highlighting this very important topic,” but said, “we’re going to pass on this opportunity,” when asked to comment on how administrators are implementing policies around books that have been challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seeing a climate of fear — and a variety of self-censorship — going on by school leaders or librarians who do not understand the implications of the law or are fearful for their jobs,” said Carolyn Foote. She’s a retired English teacher and librarian who co-created the activist group \u003ca href=\"https://www.txfreadomfighters.us/\">Texas FReadom Fighters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey Meehan of the free speech advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/\">PEN America\u003c/a> says she’s watched things in Texas escalate. She points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban\">a teacher fired last year\u003c/a> for sharing a graphic novel with her students that showed Anne Frank having a romantic daydream about another girl. Another teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116\">featured on an NBC podcast\u003c/a> left her job under pressure after making literature available to students featuring a positive transgender character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents are taking books from schools and bringing them to police or sheriff offices and accusing librarians and educators of providing sexually explicit material to students,” Meehan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does make me nervous,” admitted the Houston teacher with the secret bookshelf. “I mean, this is absolutely silly that I am not free to talk about books without giving my name and worrying about repercussions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, she hopes, it will no longer have to be a secret. Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked part of a recently passed state bill, known as HB 900, that would have required booksellers and publishers to rate any books sold to schools for sexual content. This was seen as a victory for freedom-to-read activists, but some of them noted to NPR that HB 900 still contains dangerously vague language about material prohibited in school and no clear guidelines about enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe that book banning is going to go away,” the teacher says, firmly. But for now she adds, “I intend for this library to just keep growing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+secret+shelf+of+banned+books+thrives+in+a+Texas+school%2C+under+the+nose+of+censors&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63035/a-secret-shelf-of-banned-books-thrives-in-a-texas-school-under-the-nose-of-censors","authors":["byline_mindshift_63035"],"categories":["mindshift_194"],"tags":["mindshift_21516","mindshift_21657","mindshift_20646","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21339","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21284","mindshift_550","mindshift_21605","mindshift_21591","mindshift_21451"],"featImg":"mindshift_63036","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60743":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60743","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60743","score":null,"sort":[1672918773000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"puberty-education-varies-widely-heres-a-science-based-period-talk-to-inform-both-kids-and-adults","title":"Puberty education varies widely. Here's a science-based 'period talk' to inform both kids and adults","publishDate":1672918773,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Short Wave on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3HOQKeK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3WA9vqh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3Vi9Xsm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Google Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When and how people receive puberty education varies greatly. Some are taught according to thorough curricula; others spend hours searching for answers to their questions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Short Wave co-\u003c/em>host \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/767284140/emily-kwong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emily Kwong\u003c/a> is in the first category. When 10-year-old Emily first learned about periods, she asked her mom for diagrams and procedures — because information is comforting. On the other hand, when 10-year old \u003cem>Short Wave\u003c/em> producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1083758522/margaret-cirino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margaret Cirino\u003c/a> first learned about periods, she was confused and a little scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward a decade or so ... and there is a lot that adult Emily and adult Marge still don't know about their periods!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why today Emily and Marge team up to provide a new and improved period talk. They chat with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrKBrandi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristyn Brandi\u003c/a>, an OB/GYN and family planning doctor, and \u003ca href=\"https://thebleedread.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mandi Tembo\u003c/a>, a menstrual health PhD candidate, about everything they wish they knew about their periods. Consider this episode a period manual, complete with an overview of the menstrual cycle, the science of how periods work, how to know when something is abnormal — and whether to have a period in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out our episode on period tracking apps and data privacy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068930998/when-tracking-your-period-lets-companies-track-you\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Short Wave on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3HOQKeK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3WA9vqh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://n.pr/3Vi9Xsm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Google Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was reported and produced by Margaret Cirino. It was edited by Gisele Grayson and Rebecca Ramirez. Brit Hanson checked the facts. The audio engineer was Alex Drewenskus. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Period+Talk+%28For+Adults%29&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Every month, 1.8 billion people menstruate globally. For those people, managing periods is essential for strong reproductive and emotional health, social wellbeing and bodily autonomy. But a lot of people haven't been educated about periods or the menstrual cycle since they were kids — if at all. This episode, a period manual in four parts: How periods work, the different stages of the menstrual cycle, how to know when something's wrong, and whether to have a period in the first place. 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It was edited by Gisele Grayson and Rebecca Ramirez. Brit Hanson checked the facts. The audio engineer was Alex Drewenskus. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Period+Talk+%28For+Adults%29&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60743/puberty-education-varies-widely-heres-a-science-based-period-talk-to-inform-both-kids-and-adults","authors":["byline_mindshift_60743"],"categories":["mindshift_21445"],"tags":["mindshift_21093","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21265","mindshift_21520","mindshift_21210","mindshift_551","mindshift_20963"],"featImg":"mindshift_60744","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60118":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60118","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60118","score":null,"sort":[1669888811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-the-realities-of-low-income-girlhood-are-overlooked-in-schools-and-culture","title":"How the realities of low-income girlhood are overlooked in schools and culture","publishDate":1669888811,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright © 2022 by Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson. This excerpt originally appeared in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://thenewpress.com/books/getting-me-cheap\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a New York Times article, in November 2021, the journalists Eliza Shapiro and Gabriela Bhaskar \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/nyregion/nyc-high-school-senior-covid.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">introduced readers to Genesis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a sophomore in a northern Manhattan high school whose family was from the Dominican Republic. Genesis was college focused, interested in architecture and thinking about spreading her wings as she looked ahead. But the pandemic upended the family’s rhythm. Over the six months documented by the journalists, Genesis not only had to transition to online learning for her junior year of high school, but she was responsible for overseeing her six-year-old sister Maia’s schooling. Their single mother worked two jobs, so Genesis had to get her little sister up, fed, and onto the computer. “The rest of the day would be spent toggling between her own assignments and monitoring Maia’s needs, which invariably won out.” As the months passed, she spent hours each day trying to help her sister learn to read. As she described her role, Genesis said, “I have to keep in mind that I’m not her mom, I’m her sister.” But she worried about how hard her mother struggles and, looking ahead, that it would be difficult to move away to college, far away from Maia and her hardworking mom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With some ups and downs, Genesis made it through high school buoyed by friends, family, and determination. Importantly, her story got told. The attention that comes with a substantive New York Times article exposed a long-ignored truth about girls’ lives in the United States. Yet, the demands and capabilities revealed in young Genesis’s daily life, while particular in detail and character, have been playing out throughout the nation for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unequal Girlhoods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/annette-lareau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annette Lareau\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s research draws out and explores differences in parenting approaches that reflect class and race in the United States. Children of the affluent are recipients of intensive parental attention, largely expressed through a wide array of enriching activities, counseling, sports, and other opportunities for individual cultivation. In sharp contrast, working-class children are expected to be self-sufficient and responsible for meeting basic milestones at school and in the world. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/clairecm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claire Cain Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has reported on research that shows parents of all different income levels aspire to this intensive ideal, setting up low-income parents to fail since they don’t have the time and resources to devote to endless carpools and activities. Moms talked to us about the guilt they felt when forced to take low-wage jobs and patch together care for their kids, which often fell apart. They were frequently leaving children in “self-care” and relying on teens and children, predominantly girls, to take care of even younger children. Lisa recorded a teen girl who, upon listening to other girls describe their routine family-care work, said, “It’s all true. It’s all similar. I am the oldest daughter too . . . living with my mom and my three siblings, so I had to play my father’s role, and I had to be the father. . . . And it was a big responsibility and it changed me a lot.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wendyluttrell.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wendy Luttrell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> points to the role of schools as reinforcing this classed framework. She examines how schooling is organized around an “illusion of the ‘care-free’ student.” Presumably, the ‘care-free’ parent is the female caregiver who is doing all the work behind the scenes. This model may in fact be the reality of wealthier children in the United States with some of the caregiving duties performed by hired help. But we heard how children face schooling expectations that largely ignore labor market pressures on their parents, pressures that configure family life beyond income poverty. Instability and uncertainty are absolutes for parents in millions of low-wage jobs. Freedom from daily care work and economic stress reflects the lives of affluent youth whose families can purchase all kinds of care and enrichment services, technology, and other options that free children to pursue self-cultivation. But for working-class and poor children, this kind of childhood is like another country, a far-off life. In the United States, childhood is a commodity reserved for those wealthy enough to buy it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The contrast between growing up female in lower and higher-income America emerges in many arenas. Dan Kindlon, a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, described his revelations about today’s “postfeminism” generation of young women, partly gleaned from coaching his daughter’s softball team. As he describes it, unlike their mothers, girls take for granted equal rights and even outperform boys in terms of grades, honors, graduation rates, and college graduation. Kindlon \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/girl-power.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">explained to Harvard Magazine\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that as a result, these “alpha girls . . . are starting to make the psychological shift, the inner transformation, that Simone de Beauvoir predicted” in 1949. “‘Sooner or later [women] will arrive at complete economic and social equality, which will bring about an inner metamorphosis.’” What girls today are saying, adds Kindlon, is “I have flexibility that no other woman has ever had in history, or certainly not in any numbers, and I can play any role—‘Bring it on.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60153 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Me Cheap book cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">This representation of girls’ lives and their growing power resonates among largely white, higher-income families. But the girlhood we heard described is generally missing from popular campaigns for girls’ empowerment, for building feminist pathways into STEM careers, and for nurturing girls’ leadership skills. Many of the women who traced their biographies with us noted how deep family ties and brutal wage poverty were imprinted on them right from the start. The economy gets their moms’ work for cheap and, behind that, children subsidize low wages by filling in for adults. Just as low-income women are overlooked in a personal choice model that dominates work and family debates, low-income girlhood remains missing from mainstream narratives about girls’ lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hartford.edu/directory/arts-science/freeman-amanda.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-60197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Freeman\" width=\"175\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">Amanda Freeman\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hartford and a writer and researcher of motherhood and work.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.hartford.edu/directory/arts-science/freeman-amanda.aspx\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-60162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson.jpeg\" alt=\"Lisa Dodson\" width=\"175\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson.jpeg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson-160x213.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-dodson-3b6a7059/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Dodson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is Research Professor Emerita at Boston College. She is the author of “The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy” and “Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America.”\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In “Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty,” researchers Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson describe how schools often fail to account for the family and labor demands placed on low-income students, especially girls.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1669767728,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":1137},"headData":{"title":"How the realities of low-income girlhood are overlooked in schools and culture - MindShift","description":"School expectations often ignore the child care and labor responsibilities taken on by students from low-income families, especially girls.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How the realities of low-income girlhood are overlooked in schools and culture","datePublished":"2022-12-01T10:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2022-11-30T00:22:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/mindshift/60118/how-the-realities-of-low-income-girlhood-are-overlooked-in-schools-and-culture","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright © 2022 by Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson. This excerpt originally appeared in “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://thenewpress.com/books/getting-me-cheap\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a New York Times article, in November 2021, the journalists Eliza Shapiro and Gabriela Bhaskar \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/22/nyregion/nyc-high-school-senior-covid.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">introduced readers to Genesis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a sophomore in a northern Manhattan high school whose family was from the Dominican Republic. Genesis was college focused, interested in architecture and thinking about spreading her wings as she looked ahead. But the pandemic upended the family’s rhythm. Over the six months documented by the journalists, Genesis not only had to transition to online learning for her junior year of high school, but she was responsible for overseeing her six-year-old sister Maia’s schooling. Their single mother worked two jobs, so Genesis had to get her little sister up, fed, and onto the computer. “The rest of the day would be spent toggling between her own assignments and monitoring Maia’s needs, which invariably won out.” As the months passed, she spent hours each day trying to help her sister learn to read. As she described her role, Genesis said, “I have to keep in mind that I’m not her mom, I’m her sister.” But she worried about how hard her mother struggles and, looking ahead, that it would be difficult to move away to college, far away from Maia and her hardworking mom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With some ups and downs, Genesis made it through high school buoyed by friends, family, and determination. Importantly, her story got told. The attention that comes with a substantive New York Times article exposed a long-ignored truth about girls’ lives in the United States. Yet, the demands and capabilities revealed in young Genesis’s daily life, while particular in detail and character, have been playing out throughout the nation for decades.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unequal Girlhoods\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/annette-lareau\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annette Lareau\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s research draws out and explores differences in parenting approaches that reflect class and race in the United States. Children of the affluent are recipients of intensive parental attention, largely expressed through a wide array of enriching activities, counseling, sports, and other opportunities for individual cultivation. In sharp contrast, working-class children are expected to be self-sufficient and responsible for meeting basic milestones at school and in the world. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/clairecm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claire Cain Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has reported on research that shows parents of all different income levels aspire to this intensive ideal, setting up low-income parents to fail since they don’t have the time and resources to devote to endless carpools and activities. Moms talked to us about the guilt they felt when forced to take low-wage jobs and patch together care for their kids, which often fell apart. They were frequently leaving children in “self-care” and relying on teens and children, predominantly girls, to take care of even younger children. Lisa recorded a teen girl who, upon listening to other girls describe their routine family-care work, said, “It’s all true. It’s all similar. I am the oldest daughter too . . . living with my mom and my three siblings, so I had to play my father’s role, and I had to be the father. . . . And it was a big responsibility and it changed me a lot.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wendyluttrell.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wendy Luttrell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> points to the role of schools as reinforcing this classed framework. She examines how schooling is organized around an “illusion of the ‘care-free’ student.” Presumably, the ‘care-free’ parent is the female caregiver who is doing all the work behind the scenes. This model may in fact be the reality of wealthier children in the United States with some of the caregiving duties performed by hired help. But we heard how children face schooling expectations that largely ignore labor market pressures on their parents, pressures that configure family life beyond income poverty. Instability and uncertainty are absolutes for parents in millions of low-wage jobs. Freedom from daily care work and economic stress reflects the lives of affluent youth whose families can purchase all kinds of care and enrichment services, technology, and other options that free children to pursue self-cultivation. But for working-class and poor children, this kind of childhood is like another country, a far-off life. In the United States, childhood is a commodity reserved for those wealthy enough to buy it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The contrast between growing up female in lower and higher-income America emerges in many arenas. Dan Kindlon, a clinical psychologist and lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, described his revelations about today’s “postfeminism” generation of young women, partly gleaned from coaching his daughter’s softball team. As he describes it, unlike their mothers, girls take for granted equal rights and even outperform boys in terms of grades, honors, graduation rates, and college graduation. Kindlon \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/girl-power.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">explained to Harvard Magazine\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that as a result, these “alpha girls . . . are starting to make the psychological shift, the inner transformation, that Simone de Beauvoir predicted” in 1949. “‘Sooner or later [women] will arrive at complete economic and social equality, which will bring about an inner metamorphosis.’” What girls today are saying, adds Kindlon, is “I have flexibility that no other woman has ever had in history, or certainly not in any numbers, and I can play any role—‘Bring it on.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60153 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Me Cheap book cover\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/getting_me_cheap_final-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">This representation of girls’ lives and their growing power resonates among largely white, higher-income families. But the girlhood we heard described is generally missing from popular campaigns for girls’ empowerment, for building feminist pathways into STEM careers, and for nurturing girls’ leadership skills. Many of the women who traced their biographies with us noted how deep family ties and brutal wage poverty were imprinted on them right from the start. The economy gets their moms’ work for cheap and, behind that, children subsidize low wages by filling in for adults. Just as low-income women are overlooked in a personal choice model that dominates work and family debates, low-income girlhood remains missing from mainstream narratives about girls’ lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hartford.edu/directory/arts-science/freeman-amanda.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-60197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Freeman\" width=\"175\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Amanda-Freeman.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">Amanda Freeman\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hartford and a writer and researcher of motherhood and work.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.hartford.edu/directory/arts-science/freeman-amanda.aspx\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-60162\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson.jpeg\" alt=\"Lisa Dodson\" width=\"175\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson.jpeg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/11/Lisa-Dodson-160x213.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-dodson-3b6a7059/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lisa Dodson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is Research Professor Emerita at Boston College. She is the author of “The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy” and “Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America.”\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60118/how-the-realities-of-low-income-girlhood-are-overlooked-in-schools-and-culture","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21491"],"tags":["mindshift_21450","mindshift_21251","mindshift_20701","mindshift_21255","mindshift_20825","mindshift_20568","mindshift_21091","mindshift_21284","mindshift_21494"],"featImg":"mindshift_60410","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_58732":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_58732","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"58732","score":null,"sort":[1636705116000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"childrens-book-calvin-shows-how-a-community-can-embrace-a-trans-childs-identity","title":"Children's book 'Calvin' shows how a community can embrace a trans child's identity","publishDate":1636705116,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Calvin was always a boy — but the world did not recognize him that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the story in the new children's book \u003cem>Calvin\u003c/em>. Authors JR and Vanessa Ford show how their young protagonist navigates the complicated feelings of being a transgender kid and how he comes into expressing who he really is, with illustrations from Kayla Harren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fords are also parents to two children, one who is trans and inspired this book. Ellie first raised the topic shortly after their 5th birthday — the family is now six years into their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That transition really was a labor of love and a labor of learning for all of us,\" JR Ford says. \"It really helped jump-start what we needed to do, you know, to research this whole new lexicon of terms and vocabulary as well as: What does it mean for us to continue to support Ellie in their transition?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Calvin \u003c/em>is inspired by the Fords' child, the book is not entirely a fictionalization of their personal experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are pieces of what Calvin says that Ellie said to us early on,\" Vanessa Ford says. \"But we have a large network of families with many children who transitioned around 4 or 5 years old, and each one of these children have informed us of their own experiences, and we've grown up with them in our community of families with trans kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Audie Cornish spoke with Vanessa and JR Ford for \u003c/em>All Things Considered\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On parents using the word transgender with their children\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>When we first were with our child when they were 4, there was one book out, and it used the word transgender. And we didn't use that word for quite some time in reading the book to Ellie, to our child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/11/10/calvin_9780593108673_all_5_custom-4803a07cab9110677f7db1293df308a13462a29c-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"940\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the book, Calvin's parents introduce him to the term transgender. Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We skipped over it because we didn't want to provide a word. However, when we finally used the word, Ellie's breath took out all the air in the room and they said, \"That's who I am. There's a word for who I am.\" And so some of this is that our children may not have the language to describe how they feel or how they identify, and sometimes having that language can be incredibly empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the scene where Calvin reintroduces himself to a classmate as a boy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>That's actually one of the things we found on our journey — that kids are really open. They are accepting, interested and curious. It's really adults and political figures who have taken the issue of trans kids and politicized it and put all this fearmongering out there, when in our experience and the experience of many people we've talked with, kids may have a few questions like Calvin's friend did, but then it's on to recess — what are we doing next? And when kids are able to be their authentic selves, it draws in others around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/11/10/calvin_9780593108673_all_12_custom-b2d1dff26a9125db3b527aa5f317919c61d2feb6-s600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"795\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In one scene in the book, Calvin reintroduces himself to a classmate using his new name. Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what they would say to parents who aren't ready to talk to their children about transgender identities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>I think right now is the time if there ever was a time. We have a political environment in which trans youth in particular are being targeted around the country. We have trans kids coming out every day in classrooms around the country. And I would just encourage them to take a risk. Your child is going to be open and eager to learn this, and it may help them be a better, empathetic friend to somebody in their class or their community. And I would say learn from our experience. We were scared. We were fearful of even using that word in the beginning when, in fact, our child found it so empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JR Ford: \u003c/strong>I would also add that our kids aren't a monolith. They are unique in every single way. And for parents and adults and caretakers, give them the opportunity to be themselves. At least, being able to listen to your kids is one of the things that we always try to promote. Listen to your kids. They know what's best for them because they're living their experience every single day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy Isackson and Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted this interview for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Authors JR and Vanessa Ford show how their young protagonist navigates the complicated feelings of being a transgender kid and how he comes into expressing who he really is, with illustrations from Kayla Harren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fords are also parents to two children, one who is trans and inspired this book. Ellie first raised the topic shortly after their 5th birthday — the family is now six years into their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That transition really was a labor of love and a labor of learning for all of us,\" JR Ford says. \"It really helped jump-start what we needed to do, you know, to research this whole new lexicon of terms and vocabulary as well as: What does it mean for us to continue to support Ellie in their transition?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though \u003cem>Calvin \u003c/em>is inspired by the Fords' child, the book is not entirely a fictionalization of their personal experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are pieces of what Calvin says that Ellie said to us early on,\" Vanessa Ford says. \"But we have a large network of families with many children who transitioned around 4 or 5 years old, and each one of these children have informed us of their own experiences, and we've grown up with them in our community of families with trans kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Audie Cornish spoke with Vanessa and JR Ford for \u003c/em>All Things Considered\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On parents using the word transgender with their children\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>When we first were with our child when they were 4, there was one book out, and it used the word transgender. And we didn't use that word for quite some time in reading the book to Ellie, to our child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/11/10/calvin_9780593108673_all_5_custom-4803a07cab9110677f7db1293df308a13462a29c-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"940\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the book, Calvin's parents introduce him to the term transgender. Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We skipped over it because we didn't want to provide a word. However, when we finally used the word, Ellie's breath took out all the air in the room and they said, \"That's who I am. There's a word for who I am.\" And so some of this is that our children may not have the language to describe how they feel or how they identify, and sometimes having that language can be incredibly empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the scene where Calvin reintroduces himself to a classmate as a boy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>That's actually one of the things we found on our journey — that kids are really open. They are accepting, interested and curious. It's really adults and political figures who have taken the issue of trans kids and politicized it and put all this fearmongering out there, when in our experience and the experience of many people we've talked with, kids may have a few questions like Calvin's friend did, but then it's on to recess — what are we doing next? And when kids are able to be their authentic selves, it draws in others around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/11/10/calvin_9780593108673_all_12_custom-b2d1dff26a9125db3b527aa5f317919c61d2feb6-s600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"795\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In one scene in the book, Calvin reintroduces himself to a classmate using his new name. Penguin Random House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what they would say to parents who aren't ready to talk to their children about transgender identities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vanessa Ford: \u003c/strong>I think right now is the time if there ever was a time. We have a political environment in which trans youth in particular are being targeted around the country. We have trans kids coming out every day in classrooms around the country. And I would just encourage them to take a risk. Your child is going to be open and eager to learn this, and it may help them be a better, empathetic friend to somebody in their class or their community. And I would say learn from our experience. We were scared. We were fearful of even using that word in the beginning when, in fact, our child found it so empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JR Ford: \u003c/strong>I would also add that our kids aren't a monolith. They are unique in every single way. And for parents and adults and caretakers, give them the opportunity to be themselves. At least, being able to listen to your kids is one of the things that we always try to promote. Listen to your kids. 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As a kid, she loved it all: the epic space battles, the magic, the quests that seemed larger than life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a problem with her favorite childhood stories, like \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Lord of The Rings \u003c/em>series. \"I never quite saw myself reflected in them,\" Stevenson says, \"certainly not at the heart of the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There weren't a lot of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there's interstellar rebel Princess Leia and Nazgûl-slaying Éowyn. But Stevenson wanted a female version of Luke Skywalker and a terror-inducing femme Lord Sauron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when she started writing stories of her own, she made sure kids like her felt seen, in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I'm not the only one that my first-ever crush on a female character was Velma from \u003cem>Scooby Doo\u003c/em>,\" Stevenson says. \"I think it's important to know that this is an OK way to be. You don't have to hide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson began her career as a comic writer and illustrator. In 2015, her graphic novel \u003cem>Nimona\u003c/em> was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalbook.org/books/nimona/\">National Book Awards finalist\u003c/a> and her series \u003cem>Lumberjanes \u003c/em>won \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-comic-con-eisner-awards-lumberjanes-saga-20150712-story.html\">two Eisner Awards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Netflix and DreamWorks wanted to reboot \u003cem>She-Ra: Princess of Power —\u003c/em> an epic showdown between magical princesses and an evil alien invader — Stevenson was all in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept much of the original show's action and adventure — like the original, the reboot takes place on the planet Etheria, and one of the princesses who is trying to stop the evil Horde army from taking over is named Adora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up behind enemy lines, taken from her home by the Horde and raised as a soldier. But eventually, Adora realizes the atrocities the Horde has committed against the Etherians and leaves to join the rebellion — and she quickly finds a magical sword that transforms her into a giant warrior princess named She-Ra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson did make one small but important change to the show: Its name. The Netflix and DreamWorks version is \u003cem>She-Ra and the PRINCESSES of Power\u003c/em>. All the princesses are important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also gathered an all-female writing staff to update this team of powerful women. In the original show, the princesses are white, skinny and presumably straight. The new rebellion includes women of color. They're women in all different shapes and sizes. And there are women who love other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Princess Weekes is an assistant editor at \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarysue.com/author/princess-weekes/\">The Mary Sue\u003c/a>, a website that covers the intersection of women and fandom. She's been writing about the \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> reboot since the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weekes says that because the team behind \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> is made up of LGBTQ people, the stories on the show give genuine representation of queer life for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You allow queerness for young kids to be just normalized in general,\" Weekes says. \"What I think Noelle Stevenson and the entire \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> team has done is create a society and place where characters can exist, but their biggest problem isn't that they're gay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many LGBTQ artists on the \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> team is Jacob Tobia. They're the voice of \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em>'s non-binary character, Double Trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1713px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1713\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b.jpg 1713w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1713px) 100vw, 1713px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Trouble is a non-binary, shape-shifting mercenary, who is voiced by actor Jacob Tobia. \u003ccite>(DreamWorks/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Double Trouble uses their power of shapeshifting to transform into any character on the show, and they cause chaos on both sides — the Horde and the rebellion. Tobia says Double Trouble's ability to create conflict without squarely fitting into a box of good or evil shows how dynamic the character is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They inhabit a complicated moral tapestry,\" Tobia says. \"That's what having access to full personhood looks like, is being able to play characters that aren't just there to be the moral of the story, but are there to advance the story, to escalate conflict and just cause trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power\u003c/em> is far from the first children's show with LGBTQ representation. There's decades of history with queer characters and story lines present. But for a long time, it had to be subtle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not accidental that every gay person I know loved \u003cem>Sailor Moon\u003c/em> growing up,\" Tobia says. \"It's because there was embedded in the story a transformation narrative for each of the characters. You went from the clothes you had to wear to school, to then getting your magical uniform that gave you your special powers that was shiny, and sparkly and cute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobia says as a gender nonconforming kid, shows like \u003cem>Sailor Moon\u003c/em> and now \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> tell children that they're most powerful being their true selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's important now is that \u003cem>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power\u003c/em> — as well as shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628885509/the-mind-behind-americas-most-empathetic-cartoon\">Steven Universe\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Craig of the Creek\u003c/em> — can take these same LGBTQ stories and put them out in the open, showing kids that being queer is an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mey Rude is a journalist and a consultant for writing transgender characters in entertainment. She worked with Stevenson, in fact, on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/lumberjanes-issue-17-continues-positive-representation-as-jo-talks-about-being-trans-303008/\">coming-out story of a trans character\u003c/a> in the comic series \u003cem>Lumberjanes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like 'Oh, I can be this,' \" Rude says. \"I didn't know before that I could act this way — that I could love this way, that I could dress this way — and have a loving family and friends. Shows like \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> show you that you can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Ted Robbins and adapted for the web by Victoria Whitley-Berry and Petra Mayer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. 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But Stevenson wanted a female version of Luke Skywalker and a terror-inducing femme Lord Sauron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when she started writing stories of her own, she made sure kids like her felt seen, in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I'm not the only one that my first-ever crush on a female character was Velma from \u003cem>Scooby Doo\u003c/em>,\" Stevenson says. \"I think it's important to know that this is an OK way to be. You don't have to hide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson began her career as a comic writer and illustrator. In 2015, her graphic novel \u003cem>Nimona\u003c/em> was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalbook.org/books/nimona/\">National Book Awards finalist\u003c/a> and her series \u003cem>Lumberjanes \u003c/em>won \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-comic-con-eisner-awards-lumberjanes-saga-20150712-story.html\">two Eisner Awards\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Netflix and DreamWorks wanted to reboot \u003cem>She-Ra: Princess of Power —\u003c/em> an epic showdown between magical princesses and an evil alien invader — Stevenson was all in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She kept much of the original show's action and adventure — like the original, the reboot takes place on the planet Etheria, and one of the princesses who is trying to stop the evil Horde army from taking over is named Adora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up behind enemy lines, taken from her home by the Horde and raised as a soldier. But eventually, Adora realizes the atrocities the Horde has committed against the Etherians and leaves to join the rebellion — and she quickly finds a magical sword that transforms her into a giant warrior princess named She-Ra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson did make one small but important change to the show: Its name. The Netflix and DreamWorks version is \u003cem>She-Ra and the PRINCESSES of Power\u003c/em>. All the princesses are important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also gathered an all-female writing staff to update this team of powerful women. In the original show, the princesses are white, skinny and presumably straight. The new rebellion includes women of color. They're women in all different shapes and sizes. And there are women who love other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Princess Weekes is an assistant editor at \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarysue.com/author/princess-weekes/\">The Mary Sue\u003c/a>, a website that covers the intersection of women and fandom. She's been writing about the \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> reboot since the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weekes says that because the team behind \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> is made up of LGBTQ people, the stories on the show give genuine representation of queer life for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You allow queerness for young kids to be just normalized in general,\" Weekes says. \"What I think Noelle Stevenson and the entire \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> team has done is create a society and place where characters can exist, but their biggest problem isn't that they're gay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the many LGBTQ artists on the \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> team is Jacob Tobia. They're the voice of \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em>'s non-binary character, Double Trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1713px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1713\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b.jpg 1713w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/double-trouble-1-46af929607218a74ff6d609af5fcfc7f417ce11b-1020x765.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1713px) 100vw, 1713px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Trouble is a non-binary, shape-shifting mercenary, who is voiced by actor Jacob Tobia. \u003ccite>(DreamWorks/Netflix)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Double Trouble uses their power of shapeshifting to transform into any character on the show, and they cause chaos on both sides — the Horde and the rebellion. Tobia says Double Trouble's ability to create conflict without squarely fitting into a box of good or evil shows how dynamic the character is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They inhabit a complicated moral tapestry,\" Tobia says. \"That's what having access to full personhood looks like, is being able to play characters that aren't just there to be the moral of the story, but are there to advance the story, to escalate conflict and just cause trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power\u003c/em> is far from the first children's show with LGBTQ representation. There's decades of history with queer characters and story lines present. But for a long time, it had to be subtle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not accidental that every gay person I know loved \u003cem>Sailor Moon\u003c/em> growing up,\" Tobia says. \"It's because there was embedded in the story a transformation narrative for each of the characters. You went from the clothes you had to wear to school, to then getting your magical uniform that gave you your special powers that was shiny, and sparkly and cute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobia says as a gender nonconforming kid, shows like \u003cem>Sailor Moon\u003c/em> and now \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> tell children that they're most powerful being their true selves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's important now is that \u003cem>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power\u003c/em> — as well as shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628885509/the-mind-behind-americas-most-empathetic-cartoon\">Steven Universe\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Craig of the Creek\u003c/em> — can take these same LGBTQ stories and put them out in the open, showing kids that being queer is an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mey Rude is a journalist and a consultant for writing transgender characters in entertainment. She worked with Stevenson, in fact, on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.autostraddle.com/lumberjanes-issue-17-continues-positive-representation-as-jo-talks-about-being-trans-303008/\">coming-out story of a trans character\u003c/a> in the comic series \u003cem>Lumberjanes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like 'Oh, I can be this,' \" Rude says. \"I didn't know before that I could act this way — that I could love this way, that I could dress this way — and have a loving family and friends. Shows like \u003cem>She-Ra\u003c/em> show you that you can be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Ted Robbins and adapted for the web by Victoria Whitley-Berry and Petra Mayer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27She-Ra+And+The+Princesses+Of+Power%2C%27+True+Strength+Is+In+Being+Yourself&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/55927/in-she-ra-and-the-princesses-of-power-true-strength-is-in-being-yourself","authors":["byline_mindshift_55927"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21304","mindshift_20825","mindshift_21339"],"featImg":"mindshift_55928","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_55805":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_55805","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"55805","score":null,"sort":[1588324780000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-private-to-public-a-college-counselor-straddles-an-economic-divide","title":"From Private to Public: A College Counselor Straddles an Economic Divide","publishDate":1588324780,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about college counselors was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>higher education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — When California schools closed on March 13 in response to the coronavirus, college counselor Brad Ward didn’t know it would be the last day she’d see many of her students at Terra Linda High School. A few weeks later, school was canceled for the rest of the year, leaving her scrambling to stay connected with her seniors who are at a critical stage in determining their post-graduation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media. Some have not signed in for a single remote class, and many have not picked up the laptops and hotspots offered by Terra Linda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some seniors that we're not ever going to hear from ever again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not how Ward typically works. Up until six weeks ago, she spent her days in Terra Linda’s College and Career Center, a converted classroom off the school’s busiest thoroughfare. In between second and third periods, she would stand at the intersection of the school’s main corridors, fielding questions about standardized tests and high school transcripts from students walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward counsels a student at the College and Career Center. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. As one of the few transgender college counselors in the country, if not the only one, she is also in a unique position to bring visibility to LGBTQ+ issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward, 51, began her education career at Bucknell University, her alma mater, where she spent seven years working in admissions Then she was recruited to work as a college counselor at the Menlo School, a private school in Atherton, California, with a $50,000 annual price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges. She also wrote detailed recommendations for each student and developed relationships with admissions officers at highly selective colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d think, ‘Maybe I should call Dartmouth again because I haven’t called them in two weeks,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her caseload was typically around 35 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a big difference from her current role, in which she and a colleague try to serve all 320 seniors and counsel younger students. “At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ward is committed to making sure her students get guidance tailored to their individual needs. On a Friday morning in January, Ward met with Terra Linda’s three school counselors to plan a parents’ night for juniors and organize a career and technical fair. Later that morning, she chatted with an adviser from the nearby College of Marin, where some Terra Linda students take classes for college credit, and she met with Katy Dunlap, the school principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College counselor Brad Ward meets with school principal Katy Dunlap at Terra Linda High School. Ward brings a wealth of knowledge of the college admissions process due to her experience as a former admissions officer. “We’re totally lucky that Brad applied,” Dunlap said. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dunlap said she was struck during Ward’s interview by her in-depth knowledge of specific colleges. Ward has visited more than 300 college and university campuses in her 20-year career in admissions and college counseling. “I’d never met anyone who has gone to as many colleges or universities,” Dunlap said of Ward. That allows Ward “to really individualize for kids what would be a good fit for them,” the principal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little obsessed,” Ward said sheepishly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring break, she road-tripped through the South and visited more than a dozen colleges and universities in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. Her new goal is to visit all 115 community colleges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public school system isn’t geared to attracting counselors who have that kind of detailed experience with colleges and college admissions. Counseling jobs at most public schools require a master’s degree and a state credential, but the training – and responsibilities – focus on mental health counseling, not college and career guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing the need, Terra Linda a few years ago joined a small number of high schools that have added full-time college and career counseling jobs, often with the help of outside dollars. Ward’s position is funded by HeadsUp, a nonprofit foundation that supplements the budgets of local schools. Paradoxically, her job is a classified position that doesn’t require a post-secondary credential, not even a bachelor’s degree, though this varies by school and district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, says Dunlap. “It’s very, very challenging to be counseling kids about college when you haven’t even gone yourself,” she said. “We’re totally lucky that Brad applied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55808\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College counselor Brad Ward advises a student on the admissions process at Terra Linda High School’s College and Career Center. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following her meeting with Dunlap, Ward returned to the College and Career Center to greet two Army recruiters who were there to set up a booth in the quad at lunch. Despite the military’s prohibition on transgender service members, Ward believes the military is a good career option for some students. Her father was in the Army, and she welcomes its representatives to campus each month. “Military folks are some of the bravest people I know, and give me inspiration for what I’m trying to do,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another afternoon, right before schools shut, Ward met with the mother of a senior who was worried about her son’s college prospects, followed by a bubbly 11th grader, Angela, who wanted help narrowing a list of 30 colleges. Ward advised her to start thinking about teacher recommendations and to create an account for the Common App, the online application system used by more than 800 colleges. She also warned Angela that writing essays would be the most time-consuming part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela buried her face in her hands. “I’m so paranoid I’m not going to get in anywhere,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t worry, there’s a college for everybody,” Ward reassured her. “It’s a stressful process, but you’re only going to go through it once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then another junior, Stella, came in with her mother, who explained that neither she nor her husband had gone to college. “We’re just starting to think about it,” she said. “I know there’s just so much to know and so many places she could go.” She asked when they would need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, which opens on Oct. 1 for the next academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Ward’s time is now spent helping 17-year-olds sort through their parents’ tax returns to fill out the FAFSA. That wasn’t something she had much experience with in private school, where many families pay for college out of pocket. It’s been a “vertical learning curve,” she said of her transition. “I’ve learned more in the last year and a half than I did in all the 18 and a half years before that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The career shift has come at great personal expense. When she was initially hired as a full-time counselor at Terra Linda, Ward was making around $40,000 for the academic year, a third of what she earned at the private school. But she said it has been worth it because she’s using her expertise to help kids who have nowhere else to turn for college and career advice, not just assisting so many already privileged to accumulate more privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can help so many kids directly,” she said. “I'm just trying to do a good thing that can help a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another reason Ward feels strongly about being visible to students. She’s aware of how, as a transgender educator, simply being present for students can alter lives. Research shows that having a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2019/06/27/research-brief-accepting-adults-reduce-suicide-attempts-among-lgbtq-youth/\">supportive adult\u003c/a> can significantly reduce incidences of suicide among LGBTQ+ young people, and that LGBTQ+ students who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.glsen.org/blog/lgbtq-educators-what-we-know-and-what-they-need\">exposed to positive representations\u003c/a> of gay and transgender people and history report performing better in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m standing in the hallway, kids walking by get to know me,” said Ward. “They know that I’m there for them. Plus there’s the visibility of being outwardly transgender— ‘Oh, there’s Brad in a skirt, that’s different.’ It’s important to me to be visible for the LGBTQ+ community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55817\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-160x240.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-800x1200.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-768x1152.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-1020x1530.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward is a former admissions officer who made the rare switch from public to private high schools two years ago. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also wants to encourage other LGBTQ+ individuals, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137535252\">historically been excluded\u003c/a> from working in the public education system, to consider college counseling as a career option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Ward began to come out as transgender in 2015. In 2017, after 10 years at the Menlo School, she took a job at another private school, the Alto International School, where she has continued to consult part time. That summer, she also began a two-year term on the board of the nonprofit Western Association for College Admission Counseling.*\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, only one of the group’s 30 board members or other leaders was employed at a public high school. In addition, only one-third of the association’s college counseling membership was made up of public school counselors, when \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/back-to-school-by-the-numbers-2019-20-school-year\">almost\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/back-to-school-by-the-numbers-2019-20-school-year\"> 90 percent of students\u003c/a> in the United States attend public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has started to change, though. Last year, the association invited public school counselors to join for free, which has boosted their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward’s experience as a board member with the association prompted her to start thinking about making the switch to public schools. In 2018, she eagerly took a college counseling job at Menlo-Atherton, a public high school with 2,400 students. It was a temporary, one-year position without benefits. The next year, she joined Terra Linda in San Rafael, which is coincidentally where she grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward helped Terra Linda senior Abby Hakewill navigate the college process. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the school is an hour-and-a-half drive from her rent-controlled apartment in Menlo Park. Ward said she couldn’t find a landlord in San Rafael who would rent to her on her salary, so she made the difficult decision to scale back to two days a week starting in January. To make ends meet, she has continued part time at Alto International School and as an independent college counselor for private clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Menlo-Atherton, Ward worked with a student named Melody De La Quintana. The first-generation college student is now a business administration and political science major at University of Redlands, a college Ward suggested. “If Brad hadn’t given me the advice to go see the school in person, I don’t think I would have ended up where I am now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Quintana said Ward was her sole source of information about higher education. “My parents have never been to college,” she said. “They don’t know the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former student, Lauren Lutge, said Ward was the only adult at school who truly believed in her. Lutge’s grades had dropped in her early high school years due to mental health struggles, and she didn’t know what to do after graduation. “I didn’t have any direction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutge was surprised when Ward seemed motivated to help her through the college process. “Brad was a person on campus that I felt like genuinely cared about me,” said Lutge, now an English major at Santa Barbara City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Terra Linda closed, Ward has traded her three-hour commute for a virtual counseling office set up in her living room, which she's plastered with college posters from around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She misses her students, and is worried about those she hasn’t yet been able to contact. Some of her seniors are rethinking where they want to go to college, or deciding if they want to take a gap year. Others are wondering if they need to forgo college and instead work to support their families. She’s hosting an online workshop on community college applications later in the month and expects that more of her students might look at two-year schools closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once shelter-in-place orders are lifted, Ward said she and her colleagues will go door to door to track down students who have fallen through the cracks. They may also open the school for a few days over the summer for students seeking help with their post-graduation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some things can be done online, said Ward, “it's not the same as standing in the hallway and being visible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This story has been updated to remove an incomplete account of circumstances surrounding Brad Ward’s departure from the Menlo School.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about college counselors was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>higher education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Having a counselor solely focused on college is an afterthought in many high schools. Counselor Brad Ward was trying to change that. Then the coronavirus hit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596148916,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":2501},"headData":{"title":"From Private to Public: A College Counselor Straddles an Economic Divide - MindShift","description":"Having a counselor solely focused on college is an afterthought in many high schools. Counselor Brad Ward was trying to change that. Then the coronavirus hit.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"From Private to Public: A College Counselor Straddles an Economic Divide","datePublished":"2020-05-01T09:19:40.000Z","dateModified":"2020-07-30T22:41:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"55805 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=55805","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2020/05/01/from-private-to-public-a-college-counselor-straddles-an-economic-divide/","disqusTitle":"From Private to Public: A College Counselor Straddles an Economic Divide","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>","path":"/mindshift/55805/from-private-to-public-a-college-counselor-straddles-an-economic-divide","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about college counselors was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>higher education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — When California schools closed on March 13 in response to the coronavirus, college counselor Brad Ward didn’t know it would be the last day she’d see many of her students at Terra Linda High School. A few weeks later, school was canceled for the rest of the year, leaving her scrambling to stay connected with her seniors who are at a critical stage in determining their post-graduation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media. Some have not signed in for a single remote class, and many have not picked up the laptops and hotspots offered by Terra Linda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some seniors that we're not ever going to hear from ever again,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not how Ward typically works. Up until six weeks ago, she spent her days in Terra Linda’s College and Career Center, a converted classroom off the school’s busiest thoroughfare. In between second and third periods, she would stand at the intersection of the school’s main corridors, fielding questions about standardized tests and high school transcripts from students walking by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_03-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward counsels a student at the College and Career Center. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. As one of the few transgender college counselors in the country, if not the only one, she is also in a unique position to bring visibility to LGBTQ+ issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward, 51, began her education career at Bucknell University, her alma mater, where she spent seven years working in admissions Then she was recruited to work as a college counselor at the Menlo School, a private school in Atherton, California, with a $50,000 annual price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges. She also wrote detailed recommendations for each student and developed relationships with admissions officers at highly selective colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d think, ‘Maybe I should call Dartmouth again because I haven’t called them in two weeks,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her caseload was typically around 35 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a big difference from her current role, in which she and a colleague try to serve all 320 seniors and counsel younger students. “At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ward is committed to making sure her students get guidance tailored to their individual needs. On a Friday morning in January, Ward met with Terra Linda’s three school counselors to plan a parents’ night for juniors and organize a career and technical fair. Later that morning, she chatted with an adviser from the nearby College of Marin, where some Terra Linda students take classes for college credit, and she met with Katy Dunlap, the school principal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55811\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_18-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College counselor Brad Ward meets with school principal Katy Dunlap at Terra Linda High School. Ward brings a wealth of knowledge of the college admissions process due to her experience as a former admissions officer. “We’re totally lucky that Brad applied,” Dunlap said. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dunlap said she was struck during Ward’s interview by her in-depth knowledge of specific colleges. Ward has visited more than 300 college and university campuses in her 20-year career in admissions and college counseling. “I’d never met anyone who has gone to as many colleges or universities,” Dunlap said of Ward. That allows Ward “to really individualize for kids what would be a good fit for them,” the principal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a little obsessed,” Ward said sheepishly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past spring break, she road-tripped through the South and visited more than a dozen colleges and universities in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. Her new goal is to visit all 115 community colleges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public school system isn’t geared to attracting counselors who have that kind of detailed experience with colleges and college admissions. Counseling jobs at most public schools require a master’s degree and a state credential, but the training – and responsibilities – focus on mental health counseling, not college and career guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing the need, Terra Linda a few years ago joined a small number of high schools that have added full-time college and career counseling jobs, often with the help of outside dollars. Ward’s position is funded by HeadsUp, a nonprofit foundation that supplements the budgets of local schools. Paradoxically, her job is a classified position that doesn’t require a post-secondary credential, not even a bachelor’s degree, though this varies by school and district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, says Dunlap. “It’s very, very challenging to be counseling kids about college when you haven’t even gone yourself,” she said. “We’re totally lucky that Brad applied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55808\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_02-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College counselor Brad Ward advises a student on the admissions process at Terra Linda High School’s College and Career Center. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following her meeting with Dunlap, Ward returned to the College and Career Center to greet two Army recruiters who were there to set up a booth in the quad at lunch. Despite the military’s prohibition on transgender service members, Ward believes the military is a good career option for some students. Her father was in the Army, and she welcomes its representatives to campus each month. “Military folks are some of the bravest people I know, and give me inspiration for what I’m trying to do,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another afternoon, right before schools shut, Ward met with the mother of a senior who was worried about her son’s college prospects, followed by a bubbly 11th grader, Angela, who wanted help narrowing a list of 30 colleges. Ward advised her to start thinking about teacher recommendations and to create an account for the Common App, the online application system used by more than 800 colleges. She also warned Angela that writing essays would be the most time-consuming part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela buried her face in her hands. “I’m so paranoid I’m not going to get in anywhere,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t worry, there’s a college for everybody,” Ward reassured her. “It’s a stressful process, but you’re only going to go through it once.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then another junior, Stella, came in with her mother, who explained that neither she nor her husband had gone to college. “We’re just starting to think about it,” she said. “I know there’s just so much to know and so many places she could go.” She asked when they would need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, which opens on Oct. 1 for the next academic year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Ward’s time is now spent helping 17-year-olds sort through their parents’ tax returns to fill out the FAFSA. That wasn’t something she had much experience with in private school, where many families pay for college out of pocket. It’s been a “vertical learning curve,” she said of her transition. “I’ve learned more in the last year and a half than I did in all the 18 and a half years before that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The career shift has come at great personal expense. When she was initially hired as a full-time counselor at Terra Linda, Ward was making around $40,000 for the academic year, a third of what she earned at the private school. But she said it has been worth it because she’s using her expertise to help kids who have nowhere else to turn for college and career advice, not just assisting so many already privileged to accumulate more privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can help so many kids directly,” she said. “I'm just trying to do a good thing that can help a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another reason Ward feels strongly about being visible to students. She’s aware of how, as a transgender educator, simply being present for students can alter lives. Research shows that having a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2019/06/27/research-brief-accepting-adults-reduce-suicide-attempts-among-lgbtq-youth/\">supportive adult\u003c/a> can significantly reduce incidences of suicide among LGBTQ+ young people, and that LGBTQ+ students who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.glsen.org/blog/lgbtq-educators-what-we-know-and-what-they-need\">exposed to positive representations\u003c/a> of gay and transgender people and history report performing better in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m standing in the hallway, kids walking by get to know me,” said Ward. “They know that I’m there for them. Plus there’s the visibility of being outwardly transgender— ‘Oh, there’s Brad in a skirt, that’s different.’ It’s important to me to be visible for the LGBTQ+ community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55817\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55817\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-160x240.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-800x1200.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-768x1152.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_32-1020x1530.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward is a former admissions officer who made the rare switch from public to private high schools two years ago. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also wants to encourage other LGBTQ+ individuals, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137535252\">historically been excluded\u003c/a> from working in the public education system, to consider college counseling as a career option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Ward began to come out as transgender in 2015. In 2017, after 10 years at the Menlo School, she took a job at another private school, the Alto International School, where she has continued to consult part time. That summer, she also began a two-year term on the board of the nonprofit Western Association for College Admission Counseling.*\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, only one of the group’s 30 board members or other leaders was employed at a public high school. In addition, only one-third of the association’s college counseling membership was made up of public school counselors, when \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/back-to-school-by-the-numbers-2019-20-school-year\">almost\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/post/back-to-school-by-the-numbers-2019-20-school-year\"> 90 percent of students\u003c/a> in the United States attend public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has started to change, though. Last year, the association invited public school counselors to join for free, which has boosted their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward’s experience as a board member with the association prompted her to start thinking about making the switch to public schools. In 2018, she eagerly took a college counseling job at Menlo-Atherton, a public high school with 2,400 students. It was a temporary, one-year position without benefits. The next year, she joined Terra Linda in San Rafael, which is coincidentally where she grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/05/Brad_Ward_26-1020x680.png 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brad Ward helped Terra Linda senior Abby Hakewill navigate the college process. \u003ccite>(Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the school is an hour-and-a-half drive from her rent-controlled apartment in Menlo Park. Ward said she couldn’t find a landlord in San Rafael who would rent to her on her salary, so she made the difficult decision to scale back to two days a week starting in January. To make ends meet, she has continued part time at Alto International School and as an independent college counselor for private clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Menlo-Atherton, Ward worked with a student named Melody De La Quintana. The first-generation college student is now a business administration and political science major at University of Redlands, a college Ward suggested. “If Brad hadn’t given me the advice to go see the school in person, I don’t think I would have ended up where I am now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Quintana said Ward was her sole source of information about higher education. “My parents have never been to college,” she said. “They don’t know the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former student, Lauren Lutge, said Ward was the only adult at school who truly believed in her. Lutge’s grades had dropped in her early high school years due to mental health struggles, and she didn’t know what to do after graduation. “I didn’t have any direction,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutge was surprised when Ward seemed motivated to help her through the college process. “Brad was a person on campus that I felt like genuinely cared about me,” said Lutge, now an English major at Santa Barbara City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Terra Linda closed, Ward has traded her three-hour commute for a virtual counseling office set up in her living room, which she's plastered with college posters from around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She misses her students, and is worried about those she hasn’t yet been able to contact. Some of her seniors are rethinking where they want to go to college, or deciding if they want to take a gap year. Others are wondering if they need to forgo college and instead work to support their families. She’s hosting an online workshop on community college applications later in the month and expects that more of her students might look at two-year schools closer to home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once shelter-in-place orders are lifted, Ward said she and her colleagues will go door to door to track down students who have fallen through the cracks. They may also open the school for a few days over the summer for students seeking help with their post-graduation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some things can be done online, said Ward, “it's not the same as standing in the hallway and being visible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This story has been updated to remove an incomplete account of circumstances surrounding Brad Ward’s departure from the Menlo School.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about college counselors was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/c36ixT\">\u003cem>higher education newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/55805/from-private-to-public-a-college-counselor-straddles-an-economic-divide","authors":["byline_mindshift_55805"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20733","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21337"],"featImg":"mindshift_55810","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53350":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53350","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53350","score":null,"sort":[1553670713000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sparkle-unicorns-and-fart-ninjas-what-parents-can-do-about-gendered-toys","title":"Sparkle Unicorns And Fart Ninjas: What Parents Can Do About Gendered Toys","publishDate":1553670713,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>With Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty on one side and bulbous-headed Fart Ninjas on the other, the gender divide was impossible to avoid at the North American International Toy Fair in New York City back in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light-up Barbie mermaids vying for space with Gatling-style foam-dart blasters in Manhattan's Javits Center raised a question: Have toys really progressed since our grandparents' days? And how do the toys we play with shape the people we grow up to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We set out to answer these and related questions in our latest episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510334/parenting-difficult-conversations\">Life Kit's podcast Parenting: Difficult Conversations\u003c/a>, with help from Sesame Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Toys are getting more gendered \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Elizabeth Sweet studied toy catalogs and ads over time and found that toys are actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/toys-are-more-divided-by-gender-now-than-they-were-50-years-ago/383556/\">more gender divided\u003c/a> than they were half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Hains, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, has written \u003ca href=\"http://rebeccahains.com\">a book about it: \u003cem>The Princess Problem\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>: Guiding Our Girls Through The Princess-Obsessed Years.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney characters, she points out, used to be more diverse: There was Cinderella, sure, but also Pinocchio and Bambi. When 1989's \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>made a splash, Hains says, \"Disney realized profitability in girls.\" Enter the juggernaut Disney Princess brand. Plus, marketers now cloak even gender-neutral toys like blocks in both primary and pastel shades in the hope of selling more sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with several women vying to be the United States' next president, and even with a greater awareness of the spectrum of gender identity than we've ever had in our culture, Hains says, \"it's almost like kids are subject to stereotypes that we've evolved out of elsewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And these stereotypes can stick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2013 study of undergraduate women, one-third identified themselves as \"princesses.\" They placed a higher value on the physical attractiveness of a mate, were less likely to want to join the workforce after college and were more likely to say they wanted to marry a breadwinner. And when all the women were given puzzles to solve, the \"princesses\" quit faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This study, a conference paper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Rasmussen3/publication/304071159_Pretty_as_a_Princess_Longitudinal_Effects_of_Engagement_With_Disney_Princesses_on_Gender_Stereotypes_Body_Esteem_and_Prosocial_Behavior_in_Children/links/577eb13708ae5f367d33db21/Pretty-as-a-Princess-Longitudinal-Effects-of-Engagement-With-Disney-Princesses-on-Gender-Stereotypes-Body-Esteem-and-Prosocial-Behavior-in-Children.pdf\">is described and cited in this paper\u003c/a>, co-authored by Sarah Coyne, which similarly showed that girls who preferred playing princesses showed more gender-stereotyped behavior a full year later.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers haven't proved that all little girls who like tutus will grow up to be entitled quitters. But play does prepare children for life, so boys and girls both need broad options, says Rosemarie Truglio, a developmental psychologist and vice president of education and research for Sesame Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's OK for me to like pink things and pretty things and frilly things, but it shouldn't define who I am and shouldn't define what I will be in the future,\" Truglio says. \"Anyone who is singly defined doesn't make a really interesting person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are our takeaways for how to handle toy problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Bans will backfire — no pun intended. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can certainly outlaw a toy that makes you uncomfortable, but consider this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think banning anything is the answer,\" Truglio says. She found this out the hard way as a mom herself. At first \"we had the rule: No [toy] guns in our home,\" she says. But she realized that all her young son's friends were playing with them, typically in the hallway of their apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Group play and the friendship that comes with it are so important for kids, Truglio believes, that she decided to allow the toy gun, with conditions. Besides, if you say no, the odds are that the toy will become even more coveted, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. How they play is more important than what they play with.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No toy is inherently good or wicked, says Lisa Dinella, a gender studies professor at Monmouth University and co-author of the aforementioned 2013 princess study. With a gun, \"you can be really, really aggressive, or you can just be shooting targets.\" Equally, a princess game could be all about being pretty, or it could have a sophisticated plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One red flag, Truglio says, is when there's no variety to a child's play. For example, if your child wants to play with only toy guns, and the play is always aggressive, then that could be a sign for you, as a parent, to step in and find out what's really troubling the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Parents can counter sexist messages.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella says kids start learning gender stereotypes before they're out of diapers. \"Between 18 months and 2 years is the first time we're starting to see their awareness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They learn by watching us. Studies show that \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.fortlewis.edu/jdcannon2/files/2015/02/Eye-of-the-Beholder-Revisited.pdf\">parents perceive newborn girls\u003c/a> as more delicate and newborn boys as being stronger. On the playground,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096500925724\"> mothers intervene with girls\u003c/a>, seeing physical risks, more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's really hard to separate out toy preference from gender socialization that is so insidious,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella has done several experiments on how heavy gender branding influences kids' toy choices. In one, she and her team painted a bunch of toys white. Without color cues, both boys and girls gravitated toward neutral playthings like Play-Doh and the Etch A Sketch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another experiment, titled \"Pink Gives Girls Permission,\" Dinella and her co-authors flipped the traditional color patterns: pink trucks and camouflage-clad baby dolls. She found that \"there's a bigger barrier to boys playing with girl things and acting like girls than for girls to be able to venture into some of these cross-gender plays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella says you can see this inequity in how hard our culture still comes down on the little boys who love princesses and sparkly things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is too bad, she says, because toys can teach important and sometimes unexpected skills. Dolls prepare boys for future roles as fathers and help them practice empathy. Acting out a tea party can help children learn \"cognitive sequencing of events: the beginning, the middle and the end of a task.\" In other words, a tea set can introduce one of the foundations of computer coding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Dinella suggests that, when toy shopping, strive for gender balanced as well as gender neutral. Try saying something like, \"You have four dolls already, so how about ... also getting a truck?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, \"Can we get it in the white version so that all of the kids, when they come to our house, can play with it, instead of just the pink version?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Talk to your kids directly, and share your values around toys.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella is also a mother, and she didn't ban toy guns either. But she does let her children know that she's not wild about them. \"I'm never going to say, 'Hey, we haven't played with the Nerf guns a lot lately! Let's get those out!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, she says, you can be more direct. \"You can say, 'This dress-up toy that was given to you, although it's really sparkly ... it does really talk to you about being pretty. And I would rather you spend time trying to get smart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5: Join in your child's play to further expand the possibilities. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a foam-dart shootout is getting out of hand, ordering the combatants to timeout isn't all that effective, says Truglio. Instead, \"maybe you take on a character role ... who is going to stop this type of aggression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hains tells the story of a father who played princesses with his daughter — but would get out the firetruck and send the princesses out on rescue missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that we may be getting a little more help these days from pop culture. Characters like the powerful Elsa, the adventurous Moana, Wonder Woman and the new Captain Marvel, played by Brie Larson, are pushing the envelope for female heroines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Dinella's studies suggests that they are having an impact. She asked preschoolers — both boys and girls — to describe themselves and also to describe what they knew about princesses. Not surprisingly, they described princesses as the typical girly girl who needs to be rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers then showed the children video clips of more recent princesses, like Merida from \u003cem>Brave,\u003c/em> taking action and being powerful. Then they asked the same questions again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching those images changed the children's perceptions of princesses, and, Dinella says, it changed kids' own self-descriptions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seeing princesses being powerful, both the girls and the boys described themselves as more multidimensional: \"They [would] say: 'I am strong. I am powerful. I am a leader.' But also, 'I am caring, and I share.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, when kids anywhere on the gender spectrum spend time with characters who are more complex, it can change the way they see themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truglio sums it up this way. \"Kids play what they see. If you can see it, you can play it — then one day you can be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sparkle+Unicorns+And+Fart+Ninjas%3A+What+Parents+Can+Do+About+Gendered+Toys&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Toys are more pink and blue than ever before, experts say. But before you ban the sparkle unicorns and foam-dart blasters, consider other ways to help kids expand their play possibilities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1553757152,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1519},"headData":{"title":"Sparkle Unicorns And Fart Ninjas: What Parents Can Do About Gendered Toys | KQED","description":"Toys are more pink and blue than ever before, experts say. 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And how do the toys we play with shape the people we grow up to be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We set out to answer these and related questions in our latest episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510334/parenting-difficult-conversations\">Life Kit's podcast Parenting: Difficult Conversations\u003c/a>, with help from Sesame Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Toys are getting more gendered \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Elizabeth Sweet studied toy catalogs and ads over time and found that toys are actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/toys-are-more-divided-by-gender-now-than-they-were-50-years-ago/383556/\">more gender divided\u003c/a> than they were half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Hains, a professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts, has written \u003ca href=\"http://rebeccahains.com\">a book about it: \u003cem>The Princess Problem\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>: Guiding Our Girls Through The Princess-Obsessed Years.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney characters, she points out, used to be more diverse: There was Cinderella, sure, but also Pinocchio and Bambi. When 1989's \u003cem>The Little Mermaid \u003c/em>made a splash, Hains says, \"Disney realized profitability in girls.\" Enter the juggernaut Disney Princess brand. Plus, marketers now cloak even gender-neutral toys like blocks in both primary and pastel shades in the hope of selling more sets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with several women vying to be the United States' next president, and even with a greater awareness of the spectrum of gender identity than we've ever had in our culture, Hains says, \"it's almost like kids are subject to stereotypes that we've evolved out of elsewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And these stereotypes can stick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2013 study of undergraduate women, one-third identified themselves as \"princesses.\" They placed a higher value on the physical attractiveness of a mate, were less likely to want to join the workforce after college and were more likely to say they wanted to marry a breadwinner. And when all the women were given puzzles to solve, the \"princesses\" quit faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This study, a conference paper, \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Rasmussen3/publication/304071159_Pretty_as_a_Princess_Longitudinal_Effects_of_Engagement_With_Disney_Princesses_on_Gender_Stereotypes_Body_Esteem_and_Prosocial_Behavior_in_Children/links/577eb13708ae5f367d33db21/Pretty-as-a-Princess-Longitudinal-Effects-of-Engagement-With-Disney-Princesses-on-Gender-Stereotypes-Body-Esteem-and-Prosocial-Behavior-in-Children.pdf\">is described and cited in this paper\u003c/a>, co-authored by Sarah Coyne, which similarly showed that girls who preferred playing princesses showed more gender-stereotyped behavior a full year later.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers haven't proved that all little girls who like tutus will grow up to be entitled quitters. But play does prepare children for life, so boys and girls both need broad options, says Rosemarie Truglio, a developmental psychologist and vice president of education and research for Sesame Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's OK for me to like pink things and pretty things and frilly things, but it shouldn't define who I am and shouldn't define what I will be in the future,\" Truglio says. \"Anyone who is singly defined doesn't make a really interesting person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are our takeaways for how to handle toy problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Bans will backfire — no pun intended. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can certainly outlaw a toy that makes you uncomfortable, but consider this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think banning anything is the answer,\" Truglio says. She found this out the hard way as a mom herself. At first \"we had the rule: No [toy] guns in our home,\" she says. But she realized that all her young son's friends were playing with them, typically in the hallway of their apartment building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Group play and the friendship that comes with it are so important for kids, Truglio believes, that she decided to allow the toy gun, with conditions. Besides, if you say no, the odds are that the toy will become even more coveted, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. How they play is more important than what they play with.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No toy is inherently good or wicked, says Lisa Dinella, a gender studies professor at Monmouth University and co-author of the aforementioned 2013 princess study. With a gun, \"you can be really, really aggressive, or you can just be shooting targets.\" Equally, a princess game could be all about being pretty, or it could have a sophisticated plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One red flag, Truglio says, is when there's no variety to a child's play. For example, if your child wants to play with only toy guns, and the play is always aggressive, then that could be a sign for you, as a parent, to step in and find out what's really troubling the child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Parents can counter sexist messages.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella says kids start learning gender stereotypes before they're out of diapers. \"Between 18 months and 2 years is the first time we're starting to see their awareness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They learn by watching us. Studies show that \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.fortlewis.edu/jdcannon2/files/2015/02/Eye-of-the-Beholder-Revisited.pdf\">parents perceive newborn girls\u003c/a> as more delicate and newborn boys as being stronger. On the playground,\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096500925724\"> mothers intervene with girls\u003c/a>, seeing physical risks, more often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's really hard to separate out toy preference from gender socialization that is so insidious,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella has done several experiments on how heavy gender branding influences kids' toy choices. In one, she and her team painted a bunch of toys white. Without color cues, both boys and girls gravitated toward neutral playthings like Play-Doh and the Etch A Sketch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another experiment, titled \"Pink Gives Girls Permission,\" Dinella and her co-authors flipped the traditional color patterns: pink trucks and camouflage-clad baby dolls. She found that \"there's a bigger barrier to boys playing with girl things and acting like girls than for girls to be able to venture into some of these cross-gender plays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella says you can see this inequity in how hard our culture still comes down on the little boys who love princesses and sparkly things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is too bad, she says, because toys can teach important and sometimes unexpected skills. Dolls prepare boys for future roles as fathers and help them practice empathy. Acting out a tea party can help children learn \"cognitive sequencing of events: the beginning, the middle and the end of a task.\" In other words, a tea set can introduce one of the foundations of computer coding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Dinella suggests that, when toy shopping, strive for gender balanced as well as gender neutral. Try saying something like, \"You have four dolls already, so how about ... also getting a truck?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, \"Can we get it in the white version so that all of the kids, when they come to our house, can play with it, instead of just the pink version?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Talk to your kids directly, and share your values around toys.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinella is also a mother, and she didn't ban toy guns either. But she does let her children know that she's not wild about them. \"I'm never going to say, 'Hey, we haven't played with the Nerf guns a lot lately! Let's get those out!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, she says, you can be more direct. \"You can say, 'This dress-up toy that was given to you, although it's really sparkly ... it does really talk to you about being pretty. And I would rather you spend time trying to get smart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5: Join in your child's play to further expand the possibilities. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a foam-dart shootout is getting out of hand, ordering the combatants to timeout isn't all that effective, says Truglio. Instead, \"maybe you take on a character role ... who is going to stop this type of aggression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hains tells the story of a father who played princesses with his daughter — but would get out the firetruck and send the princesses out on rescue missions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is that we may be getting a little more help these days from pop culture. Characters like the powerful Elsa, the adventurous Moana, Wonder Woman and the new Captain Marvel, played by Brie Larson, are pushing the envelope for female heroines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of Dinella's studies suggests that they are having an impact. She asked preschoolers — both boys and girls — to describe themselves and also to describe what they knew about princesses. Not surprisingly, they described princesses as the typical girly girl who needs to be rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers then showed the children video clips of more recent princesses, like Merida from \u003cem>Brave,\u003c/em> taking action and being powerful. Then they asked the same questions again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching those images changed the children's perceptions of princesses, and, Dinella says, it changed kids' own self-descriptions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seeing princesses being powerful, both the girls and the boys described themselves as more multidimensional: \"They [would] say: 'I am strong. I am powerful. I am a leader.' But also, 'I am caring, and I share.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, when kids anywhere on the gender spectrum spend time with characters who are more complex, it can change the way they see themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truglio sums it up this way. \"Kids play what they see. If you can see it, you can play it — then one day you can be it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Sparkle+Unicorns+And+Fart+Ninjas%3A+What+Parents+Can+Do+About+Gendered+Toys&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/53350/sparkle-unicorns-and-fart-ninjas-what-parents-can-do-about-gendered-toys","authors":["byline_mindshift_53350"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20720","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21255","mindshift_21257","mindshift_20568","mindshift_21256"],"featImg":"mindshift_53352","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53317":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53317","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53317","score":null,"sort":[1553273603000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"i-can-exist-here-on-gender-identity-some-colleges-are-opening-up","title":"'I Can Exist Here': On Gender Identity, Some Colleges Are Opening Up","publishDate":1553273603,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Take a look at a class roster at the University of Vermont. You'll see the usual stuff there — last name, student ID and class year. But you'll also see something else. Next to some names, there are pronouns: \"he\" or \"she,\" but also the gender non-specific \"they\" or \"ze.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may seem like a few more words on paper, but for some students, like Jeane Robles, having pronouns on the roster means a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just having the option to do that makes me feel like I can exist here,\" says Robles, a graduate student whose pronouns are they/them. If there was a fear that a professor might use the wrong pronouns, Robles says, \"I [wouldn't] be able to fully be present.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, the University of Vermont became the first school in the country to give students the ability to enter pronouns into campus data systems. Today, UVM is not alone — at least 20 colleges and universities give students that option, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.campuspride.org/tpc/\">Campus Pride Trans Policy Clearinghouse. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more schools, over 50, allow students to change the gender listed on their campus record without evidence of medical intervention, and more than 180 schools enable students to use a first name other than their legal name on campus records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say one aim is to reduce the incidences where trans and gender nonconforming people are misgendered — referred to with pronouns that don't match their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very invalidating, and it makes me feel invisible,\" says Genny Beemyn, who directs the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and coordinates the Trans Policy Clearinghouse. Beemyn, whose pronouns are they/them, says they get misgendered \"all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the growth of these policies on some campuses is part of a larger trend that's also showing up in the workplace, and on the radar of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maryland General Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-drivers-licenses-20190313-story.html\">recently approved a bill\u003c/a> that could make it the sixth state (along with Washington, D.C.) to include a gender-neutral option on driver's licenses. Many companies now \u003ca href=\"https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/CEI-2018-FullReport.pdf?_ga=2.27159295.332201765.1551801118-402449856.1551801118\">include gender identity and expression\u003c/a> in their non-discrimination policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's on campuses in particular where pronouns, and conversations about pronouns, have taken off. And it's not just trans and gender nonconforming people sharing them; cisgender people (who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth) are, too. At some schools, pronouns are a part of the culture in every space. People put them in their email signatures and introduce themselves with their names and pronouns in meetings. They're shared commonly in classes and at campus events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's certainly more of a movement around the visibility of pronouns [on campus],\" says Z Nicolazzo, a professor of trans* studies in education at the University of Arizona. Nicolazzo, whose pronouns are she/her or ze/hir, is the author of \u003cem>Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion. \u003c/em>(She uses an asterisk after \"trans\" to \"make the term trans as [broad] as possible.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the movement toward gender inclusivity has come to some schools, the transition has not always been smooth. In some cases, efforts to allow students to enter pronouns into campus records have sparked protests, especially over concerns that faculty and students would be required to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, a student at the University of Michigan \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/07/a-university-told-students-to-select-their-gender-pronouns-one-chose-his-majesty/?utm_term=.b86af86b902c\">selected \"His Majesty\"\u003c/a> as his pronoun when the school implemented a new system. And last summer, the University of Minnesota \u003ca href=\"https://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/09/adpronouns\">became embroiled in a debate\u003c/a> about pronoun use and free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beemyn, with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says instances of protest and backlash are generally uncommon: \"I think young people recognize the importance of this issue, and want to be respectful of people who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Student data systems need to catch up \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One challenge for institutions is that revising their student data systems can be slow and expensive. And any new policy must come with significant education for faculty and staff, Beemyn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, before the University of Massachusetts Amherst adopted a system in 2018 enabling students to indicate their pronouns, Beemyn \"spent more than a year going around to every faculty department\" to prepare them for the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Much more needs to be done'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even at schools that work to incorporate pronouns into campus life, Nicolazzo, of the University of Arizona, says there's sometimes not a deep understanding of why pronouns are important in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really worry that it becomes almost like a checkbox kind of way of thinking about diversity and equity work,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in higher education still approach gender as a binary thing — on campus, there tends to be a \"false dichotomy between man and woman,\" Nicolazzo says. 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You'll see the usual stuff there — last name, student ID and class year. But you'll also see something else. Next to some names, there are pronouns: \"he\" or \"she,\" but also the gender non-specific \"they\" or \"ze.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They may seem like a few more words on paper, but for some students, like Jeane Robles, having pronouns on the roster means a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just having the option to do that makes me feel like I can exist here,\" says Robles, a graduate student whose pronouns are they/them. If there was a fear that a professor might use the wrong pronouns, Robles says, \"I [wouldn't] be able to fully be present.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, the University of Vermont became the first school in the country to give students the ability to enter pronouns into campus data systems. Today, UVM is not alone — at least 20 colleges and universities give students that option, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.campuspride.org/tpc/\">Campus Pride Trans Policy Clearinghouse. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more schools, over 50, allow students to change the gender listed on their campus record without evidence of medical intervention, and more than 180 schools enable students to use a first name other than their legal name on campus records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say one aim is to reduce the incidences where trans and gender nonconforming people are misgendered — referred to with pronouns that don't match their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very invalidating, and it makes me feel invisible,\" says Genny Beemyn, who directs the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and coordinates the Trans Policy Clearinghouse. Beemyn, whose pronouns are they/them, says they get misgendered \"all the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways, the growth of these policies on some campuses is part of a larger trend that's also showing up in the workplace, and on the radar of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maryland General Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-drivers-licenses-20190313-story.html\">recently approved a bill\u003c/a> that could make it the sixth state (along with Washington, D.C.) to include a gender-neutral option on driver's licenses. Many companies now \u003ca href=\"https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/CEI-2018-FullReport.pdf?_ga=2.27159295.332201765.1551801118-402449856.1551801118\">include gender identity and expression\u003c/a> in their non-discrimination policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's on campuses in particular where pronouns, and conversations about pronouns, have taken off. And it's not just trans and gender nonconforming people sharing them; cisgender people (who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth) are, too. At some schools, pronouns are a part of the culture in every space. People put them in their email signatures and introduce themselves with their names and pronouns in meetings. They're shared commonly in classes and at campus events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's certainly more of a movement around the visibility of pronouns [on campus],\" says Z Nicolazzo, a professor of trans* studies in education at the University of Arizona. Nicolazzo, whose pronouns are she/her or ze/hir, is the author of \u003cem>Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion. \u003c/em>(She uses an asterisk after \"trans\" to \"make the term trans as [broad] as possible.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the movement toward gender inclusivity has come to some schools, the transition has not always been smooth. In some cases, efforts to allow students to enter pronouns into campus records have sparked protests, especially over concerns that faculty and students would be required to use them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, a student at the University of Michigan \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/10/07/a-university-told-students-to-select-their-gender-pronouns-one-chose-his-majesty/?utm_term=.b86af86b902c\">selected \"His Majesty\"\u003c/a> as his pronoun when the school implemented a new system. 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And any new policy must come with significant education for faculty and staff, Beemyn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, before the University of Massachusetts Amherst adopted a system in 2018 enabling students to indicate their pronouns, Beemyn \"spent more than a year going around to every faculty department\" to prepare them for the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Much more needs to be done'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even at schools that work to incorporate pronouns into campus life, Nicolazzo, of the University of Arizona, says there's sometimes not a deep understanding of why pronouns are important in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really worry that it becomes almost like a checkbox kind of way of thinking about diversity and equity work,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in higher education still approach gender as a binary thing — on campus, there tends to be a \"false dichotomy between man and woman,\" Nicolazzo says. 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