{"id":4334,"date":"2017-08-31T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2017-09-04T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T13:39:58","slug":"ways-to-be-better-lgbtq-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/08\/31\/ways-to-be-better-lgbtq-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to Be Better LGBTQ+ Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swarthmore’s website has several great resources<\/a> for supporting and allying with the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n

We wanted to share a few\u00a0ways to demonstrate your commitment to and support for the LGBTQ+ community:<\/p>\n

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  1. Familiarize yourself with what preferred pronouns are, if you don’t already know. \u00a0Vanderbilt University has some great proactive ways to get started<\/a>\u00a0(one page PDF).<\/li>\n
  2. Put your preferred pronouns in your email signature, if you haven’t already. \u00a0This is both\u00a0a clarifying and supportive gesture, and here’s how to do it, via Samuel Merritt University<\/a>. \u00a0Including a link to this definition of pronouns is helpful<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n
  3. Learn more about being an ally from this Cornell University post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is, of course,\u00a0not a comprehensive list. \u00a0It’s a starting point. \u00a0And we hope you’ll\u00a0get started or continue expanding your knowledge.<\/p>\n

    Here’s an example of my email signature:<\/p>\n

    Joel F. W. Price ’00
    \nPronouns: he\/him\/his
    \n    https:\/\/www.mypronouns.org\/what-and-why\/<\/a>
    \nTechnology Education Coordinator
    \nInformation Technology Services
    \nSwarthmore College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Swarthmore’s website has several great resources for supporting and allying with the LGBTQ+ community. We wanted to share a few\u00a0ways to demonstrate your commitment to and … Continue reading Ways to Be Better LGBTQ+ Allies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,113,124,114,12],"tags":[90,150,188,218,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-4334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-email","8":"category-facultystaff","9":"category-learning","10":"category-students","11":"category-tips","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-howto","14":"tag-learning","15":"tag-lgbtq","16":"tag-tips-2","17":"post_format-post-format-image","19":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rainbow-flag_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-17U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}