Sasha's Sneak Preview: The Metaphor of Gender (Only for Our Substack Supporters)
Sasha's YouTube channel for gender-questioning young people
If you joined us at our May Live + Unfiltered event, you may remember that I (Sasha) promised to share a sneak preview of my new channel, The Metaphor of Gender here in Substack.
Well—I’m a little late getting this out—but today I’m thrilled to finally share this with you.
The preview here includes the first episode of the channel, which will officially launch in mid-June. This special video was originally created as an exclusive for the parents in my SubscribeStar Parent Membership Group, but I wanted to extend a special preview here to our dedicated GWL supporters as well (many of you are also part of my parent group, so you’ve seen this before!)
What’s inside this video:
An explanation of why I started this channel
The audience it's meant for—specifically gender-questioning, gender-distressed, or gender-confused young people between 15 and 25 years old
Channel Video #1: “The Metaphor of Gender: A New Way to Think About Identity”
And, importantly, I created a detailed Parent Guide at the end, explaining exactly how to get this content on your kid’s radar without triggering conflict or resistance
Please don’t share this video anywhere else just yet.
This is still under wraps. But I’ll make an announcement and share the full launch when it’s ready—but for now, this is just for us to view together here.
Here is a downloadable PDF version of the Parent Guide, so you can follow along and or have a written copy if you prefer.
I’m so eager to hear from you! Please share your reactions in the comments—your feedback is invaluable as I prepare to launch and craft the videos for this channel.
With deep appreciation,
Sasha
Well done! I'm so glad to see this today and appreciate the approach to subject and the craftsmanship. I can imagine you may have small bite media for this too, and will look forward to sharing those. So often, the play-it-in-the-background method or share it results in very tiny amounts of attention span. (!) I appreciated so much how you explained many moments in the video that you were using metaphor - I see that happening with my kid, that she has "literally" understood something until I specifically say it is a metaphor, or not a hard and fast rule, or just a best case scenario guide, etc. The desire for rules and explicit "road maps" is so strong. I look forward to more and am very happy for you in your new endeavor.
This is wonderful, Sasha. I think of identity as a question to ponder rather than one to answer—Somewhat rhetorical. Similarly to the metaphor of gender, identity is visceral and sensorily experienced. But the moment we name it or even describe our sense of identity, we can then become limited by our perception of those words used to define it, and ourselves.