LGBTQIA+ Safe Zone Training with Lex Horwitz

The City College of New York (CCNY)

 

Lex is facilitating their Safe Zone Training for The City University of New York (CUNY)!

Dates: Friday, December 13th, 2024 and Friday, January 31st

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

More information here!

This event is closed to the public

All participants who successfully complete this training will receive a certificate of completion sent to their email. CCNY Staff and Faculty will also receive an LGBTQ+ Student Center Safe Space magnet to display on their office doors and be featured as Safe Zone Trained on the CCNY website.

What Does This Training Entail?

This training will encompass two main themes:

  • Creating Affirming Spaces: Understanding Gender and Sexuality & Best Practices

  • Allyship in Action: Application of Best Practices & Scenarios

Content Areas Can Include:

  • Binaries

  • Intersectionality

  • Break down of gender by separately addressing
    a. Gender identity
    b. Gender expression
    c. Sex designated at birth / affirming sex

  • Break down of sexuality by separately addressing
    a. Attraction (emotional, romantic, and physical)
    b. LGB+ acronym

  • Defining cisgender and transgender

  • Defining gender roles and stereotypes and gender attribution

  • Defining transphobia, cisnormativity, cissexism, cisprivilege, and heteronormativity

  • Understanding microaggressions that uniquely impact queer, non-binary and transgender individuals

  • Responding to anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior 4. Implementing inclusion strategies

Objectives/Goals Can Include:

  • Identify and understand the core terms and concepts related to gender and sexuality

  • Understand assumptions, interactions and barriers that impact the experience of LGBTQIA+ people

  • Move past assumptions

  • Leave with tangible tools and best practices to utilize as an effective ally in action to queer, non-binary and trans people and/or for self-advocacy

  • Identify and understand systems of oppression – transphobia, cisnormativity, cissexism, and heteronormativity

  • Understand and identify unique microaggressions experienced by queer, non-binary and transgender people

  • Leave with tangible tools and best practices to utilize as an effective ally in action to queer, non-binary and trans people and/or for self-advocacy

  • Sharing experiences and how to utilize advocacy tools to be proactive and/or reactive (scenarios practice)

Takeaways Can Include:

  • Gain an inclusive and affirming understanding of gender and sexuality

  • Critically think about areas of improvement to better support queer, non-binary and trans people

  • Leave with next steps and tangible tools to put best practices into action

  • Best practices on how to ensure that everyone is proactively and intentionally cultivating an inclusive, affirming, and safe environment where queer, non-binary, transgender, and gender expansive people are affirmed, welcomed and thriving.

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