Download the report on “What ongoing staff can do to support precariously employed colleagues” through https://www.aur.org.au/ or read here:
Download Making Inclusive and Safer Teaching Spaces by following this link:https://www.uowblogs.com/frn/files/2016/07/Inclusive-Spaces_FINAL1-21np6e4.pdf |
Further online resources to support inclusive teaching practice for trans and nonbinary students
Quick definitions:
Nonbinary is an umbrella term for people who don’t identify as men or women. Nonbinary people may define their gender identity in a number of different ways.
Trans people are people whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth, and who now go by another gender identity. They may be men, women, or nonbinary, just like non-trans* people. (For example: Caitlyn Jenner; trans woman. Chaz Bono: trans man. Norrie [sometimes known as Norrie May-Welby]: trans nonbinary person.)
General resources and information on nonbinary identities
General resources and information on trans* students’ experiences in US universities
http://genderedintelligence.co.uk/projects/kip/transidentities/resources-nb
Collection of articles by students, educators and researchers. You need a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education to access this one. UOW has a subscription so you can navigate to the CHE home page from the library site and then search “Diversity in Academe” for the articles.
http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.uow.edu.au/specialreport/Diversity-in-Academe-/11
Resources and practical tips for organizations
Best practice guide by a UK-based nonbinary organization. Lots of realistic, practical advice about how to ask about gender (for example on forms) and how to avoid non-inclusive language (eg don’t say ‘ladies and gentlemen’ when you mean ‘everyone’: consider whether gender-segregated events are inclusive or exclusive of nonbinary people – eg when you say ‘women-only’, do you mean ‘no men (but nonbinary people are welcome)’ or do you mean ‘only people who identify as women, no men or nonbinary people’? http://nonbinary.co.uk/2014/05/13/best-practice-guide-consultation or https://docs.google.com/document/d/14IMzhHa7V9-eXS2oW5mFS371Ij_26Reqtdou28CbKvI/pub
Resources for teachers
UK-based link round-up, mainly for secondary teachers but with some HE links there too: http://genderedintelligence.co.uk/projects/kip/bullying/resources
Practical tips
Downloadable document ‘Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Trans* and Gender Expansive Students’: Geneq.berkeley.edu/classroom
Downloadable document ‘Tips for Making Class Welcoming For Trans and Gender-Variant Students: https://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/welcomingtips.pdf
More in-depth:
Dean Spade, ‘Be Professional!’, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 71 (2010), 1-12. http://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/33_HVJLG_71_4-6-10_1423.pdf
UOW Resources:
UOW Ally Network: http://staff.uow.edu.au/eed/allynetwork/index.html UOW Inclusive Language Guidelines: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/alphalisting/UOW140611.html
RRR online: http://staff.uow.edu.au/eed/UOW073069.html
Student Conduct Rules: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058723.html
Respect for Diversity Policy: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058716.html
Code of Practice – Student Professional Experience: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058662.html
Code of Practice – Teaching and Assessment: http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058666.html
EO Online: http://staff.uow.edu.au/eed/eoonline/index.html
AcknowledgementsThe Guide was developed by the Feminist Research Network in response to student-identified needs. Contributors include Felicity Bell, Tanja Dreher, Nicola Marks, Josh Pallas, Linda Steele, Ika Willis, UOW Allsorts Queer Collective, UOW Ally Network, UOW Feminist Society, and participants in the FRN workshop on this topic. Graphic Design by Shirin Demirdag. Key resource: http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/welcomingtips.pdf |