HR!Day444 - Exploring the World of Trans II: Gender & Pronouns in a Nonbinary World
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We explore the growing use of pronouns other than “he” or “she” in a world of growing gender fluidity.
One-in-five Americans know someone personally who goes by a pronoun other than “he” or “she,” and this number increases to 32% among 18- to 29-year-olds. 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth use pronouns or pronoun combinations that fall outside of the male/female gender binary. These people may use they/them, a combination of he/him, she/her, or they/them, or neopronouns such as ze/zir or fae/faer. What if you’ve never used these pronouns before? Is such language grammatically correct? How can we understand the history of these words? What if you make a mistake? Is it okay to ask someone about their pronouns? Join Kelsey Pacha & Dennis Baron, author of What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She, for a deep dive into gender pronouns, from the Middle Ages to today.
Presenters
- Dennis Baron (he/him) writes about the English language and the technologies of communication. In addition to his scholarly publications, he writes frequently on language and technology issues in the news, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and many other papers; he is regularly consulted by journalists and has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC, the Voice of America, and the CBC -- he's discussed the changing English language with radio hosts ranging from Stephen Fry to Joan Rivers. He's interested in language and the law, has consulted in a number of legal cases, and served as lead author of "the Linguists' Brief," a grammatical and semantic analysis of the Second Amendment in the Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller (2008). That amicus brief was cited in both the majority and minority opinions. His latest book is "What's your pronoun? Beyond he and she" (Liveright 2020), a social, political, and legal history of English gender pronouns from the 18th century to the present.
- Kelsey Pacha, MA, M.Div. is a transman who has worked with marginalized communities for 18 years in a variety of settings. He holds a Master of Religion and Psychology, Master of Divinity, and Certificate of Sexuality and Religion from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is the owner of Kelsey Pacha Consulting, which supports the work of institutions and individuals in increasing their capacity for cultural humility and social justice-informed institutional change. Kelsey offers educational trainings and LGBTQ workplace policy expertise with an emphasis on practical skills, identity awareness, and personal empowerment. He regularly works with corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion officers and LGBTQ affinity groups, as well as legal, clinical, medical, and direct service (including child welfare and faith leader) personnel. He has been featured as a subject matter expert on gender pronouns in Rolling Stone, Grammarly’s Guide to Personal Pronouns, and interviewed on NPR Cap Radio about best pronoun practices in the workplace. He presents workshops around the country on the impact of inclusive spaces for LGBTQ people in various settings. Kelsey straddles the worlds of academia/theory and practice, serving as the Board President of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a national non-profit organization that publishes a 649-page resource guide of the same name, by and for the trans*, genderqueer, and gender-nonconforming communities. Through this work, he connects with leading transgender and gender expansive scholars in medicine, law, mental health, social sciences, politics, and culture to collaborate on editions of Trans Bodies. He recently authored the Religion and Spirituality chapter of the second edition of the book, to be released in April 2022, while managing a nationwide qualitative survey of 2,400 respondents, and editing several chapters. Kelsey also co-authored the Religion and Spirituality chapter in the surgical textbook Gender Confirmation Surgery: Principles and Techniques for an Emerging Field, edited by Loren Schecter, released 2020. For more information, visit kelseypachaconsulting.com.
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
Recommended Readings/Links
Baron, Dennis. What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She. Liveright Publishing, 2020.
Grammarly, A Guide to Personal Pronouns and How They’ve Evolved, Grammarly Blog, June 14, 2021.
James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality.
Lodge, Cassian. The Gender Census. 2021.
Marcus, Ezra. A Guide to Neopronouns, New York Times, April 8, 2021.
Nonbinary Wiki contributors, 'Main Page', Nonbinary Wiki.
Sakurai, Shige. et. al. Mypronouns.org
Yuko, Elizabeth. “Beyond They/Them: What are Neopronouns?” Rolling Stone, June 29, 2021.
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