gender diverse

“She uses they/them pronouns” : allyship to the gender-diverse community

By: Sarah McCarthy  I appreciate the initiative of including your name and your pronouns in class introductions. But I am always frozen with fear in this situation. I also appreciate this momentous phenomenon of creating language that challenges cissexism and that is welcomes and appreciates trans and gender-variant identities. I’m a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies major and sociology minor also getting my social justice certificate. I know very well that language works to shape knowledge, and further, I understand the need to create new language and conventions to normalize trans genders. My fear, however, comes from the fact that…

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