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Safe Space Workshop: Ally Development
October 27, 2015 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Safe Space Program provides a way for faculty, staff, students and administrators to prominently communicate that they are a safe contact for LGBTQ students, faculty, staff and allies to share fully of their identities with acceptance and appreciation of being who they are. The Safe Space Program is an initiative to educate allies who support LGBTQ individuals in our campus community.
A follow-up to LGBT+ 101. Participants will increase their knowledge and skills of adjusting campus climates for members of the LGBT+ community. Participants will learn about:
- Intersectionality, multiplicity of identities
- Homophobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, cisnormativity
- Systematic oppression and marginalization
- Microaggressions of language
- Models of inclusive language, how to transform language
- Skills and resources to create an inclusive campus