Reframing Sex

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Berberick offers us a unique view through a nonbinary lens and invites us to reread the media we consume, whether mainstream or independently produced. Written with great thought and care, they center the complex narratives of everyday trans masculine lived experiences, including the most intimate and vulnerable of topics, that are ignored by mainstream media and instead must reside in online media spaces trans people harness for storytelling and worldmaking. Let us hope that mainstream media, especially in its role as cultural pedagogue, will heed Berberick's call for increased representation of more nuanced characters whose genders span the continuum and in whom trans and nonbinary viewers can see themselves. -- Kevin Jenkins, Postdoctoral Scholar of Art Education at the Pennsylvania State University Educators and researchers will find this critically reflective book a valuable analysis for gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, the visual arts, and teaching. In the current climate we are facing with high demand on our virtual worlds which we have been forced to inhabit more rigorously through our teaching, research, and visual culture production and consumption in today's society, this study outlines necessary arguments to foreground the often underrepresented populations that exist. Reframing Sex offers an indispensable hybrid methodology for virtual ethnography in a digital age; a poignant model for educators and researchers. As an art educator, I help prepare the next generation of teachers to navigate their role within public institutions as they train a new generation. Reframing Sex offers a language, for unlearning and decolonizing systemic modes of oppression in relation to sex, gender, and identities. Reframing Sex is a unique study which showcases the transformative power in how static gender binaries are coming undone and trans-activism is changing the landscape for virtual users and visual culture impacting the way we work within academic and do political work on a large spectrum. In transforming the language that we use to engage with complex conversations and realities that are intentionally being reframed in this book to serve healing and reimagining as a critical pedagogical points. -- Leslie C. Sotomayor, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania