Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The drum kit, drumming, and drum rhythms are vital to a lot of music that is taught, learned, and encountered worldwide. Drumming remains largely conceived, portrayed, and experienced as a masculine and male-dominated domain. Gendered inequity in drumming and drum kit culture leads to a dearth of women and non-male-identifying drummers among the drumming community. This chapter represents a step in a collective journey toward modeling more inclusive dialogue about drumming with a view to nurturing greater belonging in the global drum kit community. The author takes a punk pedagogical stance, viewing punk as a manifestation of equity, rebellion, critique, solidarity, love, and collaboration. The author explores playing drums, and rock drumming in particular, as a distinct site for gender realization, in response to calls for music and music education researchers to study and better understand, represent, and serve gender-nonbinary people. The author describes in a series of reflections how in his drumming practices he has perpetuated and transgressed binary gender norms. Concluding that a more expansive notion of gender could be beneficial to drummers’, educators’, and others’ understandings of the musicians providing the beats to which many dance, he concludes by proposing drumgender as a feasible gender identity and expression.</jats:p>