Abstract/Summary

This publication is a teachers' resource seeking to make visible, champion and celebrate gender diversity. It offers accessible art-making activities for the gallery and classroom, as well as practical and safeguarding advice for teachers who want to support open and inclusive conversations about gender with young people. The resource is the result of a two-year long research project working with transgender youths; Tate Gallery archives; and contemporary UK artists, as well as installing an interactive exhibition in Tate Britain. I Want To Show You a Body aims to encourage gender emancipation within schools, where young people are given the freedom to define who and what they are. It hopes to extend opportunities for discussions, with and for young people, for whom gender is central to their sense of identity. It also recognises the large part schools and teachers play within these conversations. Beyond this, the resource begins to understand how contemporary art can help us to re-orient and rethink our relationships to other and our own bodies.