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Introduction

Welcome & How to Use the Workbook

Hopes & Dreams

Congratulations, It's a...

Girl Toys vs. Boy Toys

Socializing Agents

Binary Thinking

Time Out for Terminology

Locating Ourselves

Let's Play A Game

Let's Play Dress Up

Gender Binary vs. Gender Tapestry

Gender Neutral Parenting (Part 1)

Femmephobia

Looking Closer at Toxic Masculinity

Let's Think About Femininity

Feminine Stereotypes

Locating Our Beliefs

Situating Our Beliefs

Rules About Femininity

Femmephobia on the Playground

Tomboys, Girly Girls..

I'm Not Like Other Girls

Killing Barbie

Femmephobia & Sports

Femmephobia in the Media

Femmephobia in the Family

What Feminine Part of Yourself...

Benefits of Femininity?

When Blue is Neutral

Gender Neutral Parenting (Part 2)

Femme-Conscious Parenting

When Femininity Feels Impractical

The Hidden Message

Practicing Femme-Conscious Parenting

Stopping Femmephobia

Imagining Femme-Positive Futures

Evaluation Survey

Glossary

Femme Futures Example 2

Favourite parts of femininity

The creativity that comes with femininity — the making of beauty, the attention to detail, the nurturing of ideas and people. These things hold so much value that gets made invisible.

Q2: Value of femme-conscious parenting

Femme-conscious parenting has made me more attentive to what I'm modeling. I try to celebrate the things I've been taught to minimize — my own softness, my expressiveness, my love of beautiful things.

Q3: Imagining femme-positive futures

What if celebrating femininity wasn't an act of resistance, but just... normal? What if kids grew up never learning to be ashamed of it? I think the ripple effects on gender-based violence would be profound.

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