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An Organizer's Guide to Pronoun Buttons

Fen Slattery on October 25, 2018

As a transgender person who attends and organizes tech meetups and conferences, I spend a lot of time answering questions about how to be more incl...
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Darkø Tasevski

Highlight of the article:

Pay a trans or nonbinary person to help you make sure you’re doing this right!

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Nicole

This guide is FANTASTIC -- thoughtful, thorough, and accessible! Thank you so much for putting this together. Will be sharing with friends who organize events <3

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Toni

Great article! I just attended DjangoCon where we were allowed to choose our pronoun buttons. Here's a friend's tweet with photos of our pronoun buttons (including a blank option) and lanyards (color-coded for photographing preferences):

twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/105...

Loved how thoughtful this conference was in their planning.

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jess unrein

Ooh. Color coded photo lanyards are also A+

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Fen Slattery

That's awesome! I've seen events use buttons for photo permissions, but those are way harder to notice from across the room. This is a great solution!

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Ben Sinclair

We had photo permission coloured lanyards at Scotland CSS earlier this year and it was my first time seeing them. I'd never considered it before and I guess I assumed that we'd all have our photos taken whether we liked it or not (hey, my first conference). I thought it was cool.

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Ali Spittel

As someone who organizes a lot of events, this is really helpful and in-depth. Definitely bookmarking for later use, thank you so much!

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Kelsey

Thank you so much for writing this! As a trans masculine person, I get asked about this sort of stuff all the time and having a resource to point people at rather than having to re-explain the hows and whys of pronoun buttons is amazing! The example copy you provide is particularly useful. Thank you for taking the time and energy to do so!

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Fen Slattery

Awesome, I'm so happy it's a helpful resource! I kept wanting something to point folks to when I get these questions, but I couldn't find anything. Ta da!

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Ben Halpern

Really great post!

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jess unrein

Thank you so much for writing this! We need more go-to guides so marginalized populations don't have to justify their existence over and over again. This is important work.

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Michael Boeke

This is a really helpful guide for conference and meetup organizers who want to be more inclusive but might not be confident about the best way to do so. Thanks for writing it!

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James

A lot of great stuff here. Thank you for posting this. :)

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Alice Rees

yes yes yes all of this