As the Education Manager at GLSEN, I wait all year for Teacher Appreciation Week. My job is centered around finding, supporting, and amplifying the work of rad educators in school across the country who are doing the hard work of creating affirming learning environments for their LGBTQ students. During Teacher Appreciation...
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How Using Gender-Neutral Language Can Break the Silence of LGBTQ Students
As an English teacher, I know first hand that language can be sticky. Grammatical correctness is important, but more important are the people the words are used to describe. In a polarizing binary pronoun world, navigating gender-neutral pronouns can be daunting at first. Though most people use they/them/their in everyday...
These Students are Breaking the Silence to Create LGBTQ-Affirming Schools
For this year’s GLSEN Day of Silence on April 27th, the 2017-2018 National Student Council shared on social media how they are breaking the silence. With this year’s focus on highlighting marginalized voices within the LGBTQ+ community, some council members are either educating others on intersectionality and the importance of...