Our identity as a man or a woman is often taken for granted, but sex and gender come about through a combination of biological and social knowledges and meanings that build our individual identity. When we begin to investigate who we are, locating why we are a man or a woman, things can suddenly become very complex.
Gendered Intelligence might be a sensitivity or attunement to moments when gender or gendered expressions appear in the world in ways that raise interest or cause for debate. This might be a political moment where power is brought into play. If you think about what happens when certain behaviours which are traditionally carried out by one gender, are lived by an other, you can see quickly how roles, jobs, behaviours, images, even ways of thinking are all gendered activities.
In this way then we might say that gender is not something that you are, or have, but is something that you do. For us, it is important to nurture and develop gendered intelligence in the individual, in order that we may occupy a world where a greater freedom of expression and a wider and richer spectrum of
identities can co-exist.