Culture Shift: resources for families and educators
The YWCA Metro Vancouver supports parents (and other adult allies) to support gender equality and healthy relationships in children. Many adults find talking to children about sexualization and hypermasculinization difficult, but there are tools to help you. Engaging kids on these topics will help to shift culture to one that is safer and more equitable for all people.
Topics you can discuss:
Media literacy
Question Media: media literacy resource for youth and parents
Hypermasculinity
Redefining Masculinity: tips for raising healthy kids in a hypermasculinized world
Combatting sexualization
10 Tips for Boys to Help Combat Sexualization of Girls
10 Tips for Girls to Help Combat Sexualization
Learn more about sexualization:
YWCA's advocacy work on combatting sexualization
Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls.
Sexualization of children in the contemporary media - Commonwealth of Australia 2008.