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Title: How to create safer spaces for sex and/or gender diverse people
Post by: Shana A on December 12, 2010, 08:28:28 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 12, 2010, 08:28:28 AM
How to create safer spaces for sex and/or gender diverse people
SafespacesDespite identifying as trans, and being on the collective for a Reclaim the Night rally billed as 'trans inclusive', Sasha Sanford still felt apprehensive at the event, and asks: how can identity policing of trans, intersex and other sex and/or gender diverse people, in spaces autonomous of cis male people, be addressed?
13 December 2010
http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/how-to-create-safe-spaces-for-sex-and-gender-diverse-people-73310.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/how-to-create-safe-spaces-for-sex-and-gender-diverse-people-73310.html)
In the context of social justice organising, how can spaces and communities be formed where people might feel safer; spaces where it feels like our experiences, our resistance to oppression, and the understandings we have of ourselves are treated with respect – where our right to self-determination is acknowledged?
And how do we take responsibility for how we act, tackle the privilege we are extended by society, and be supportive in return?
SafespacesDespite identifying as trans, and being on the collective for a Reclaim the Night rally billed as 'trans inclusive', Sasha Sanford still felt apprehensive at the event, and asks: how can identity policing of trans, intersex and other sex and/or gender diverse people, in spaces autonomous of cis male people, be addressed?
13 December 2010
http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/how-to-create-safe-spaces-for-sex-and-gender-diverse-people-73310.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/how-to-create-safe-spaces-for-sex-and-gender-diverse-people-73310.html)
In the context of social justice organising, how can spaces and communities be formed where people might feel safer; spaces where it feels like our experiences, our resistance to oppression, and the understandings we have of ourselves are treated with respect – where our right to self-determination is acknowledged?
And how do we take responsibility for how we act, tackle the privilege we are extended by society, and be supportive in return?