Explore strategies and guidelines to support your LGBTQ+ colleagues in a meaningful, sustainable, and respectful way.
Overview
Syllabus
Activating Sustainable Allyship
- Stagnant vs. evergreen allyship
- Who are allies?
- Authenticity in the workplace
- Coming out: A better metaphor
- The use of pronouns
- Gray areas of allyship
- New LGBTQ+ vocabulary
- The LGBTQ+ initialism
- Understanding the word queer
- Norm-busting words
- Ungendering language and assumptions
- Ungender, Listen, Mirror, Repeat
- Removing the power dynamic in conversations
- Using the “switch it” technique
- Responding to mistakes
- Forgiving yourself for messing up
- Getting it right the next time
- Continuing your allyship journey
Taught by
Jeannie Gainsburg