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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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
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):
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Loved how thoughtful this conference was in their planning.
Ooh. Color coded photo lanyards are also A+
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!
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.
As someone who organizes a lot of events, this is really helpful and in-depth. Definitely bookmarking for later use, thank you so much!
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!
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!
Really great post!
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.
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!
A lot of great stuff here. Thank you for posting this. :)
yes yes yes all of this