LGBTQIA+ Histories & HERstories

 

Inclusive Language, Safe Schools & Classrooms

  

 Week 11

 

Assignment due Tuesday, December 1 by 4 p.m.

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Learning Activity 1

 

Who invented/created/designed the Rainbow Flag?

 Rainbow Flag

 

1. Before learning its history, why do you think the Gay Pride flag might be a rainbow?

 

 

In TEAMS Week 1 assignment we asked everyone, "Have you thought about inventing something new or changing something?"

 

Everything we see, purchase, use is a HUMAN creation of someone's idea(s).

 

Most of us do not know who created the rainbow flag, when or why.

 

Here's the story of its history and creator. 

 

 

VIEW   Brief video needs 30-60 seconds to appear on screen.  WAIT FOR IT TO OPEN.

 

 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pride-rainbow-flag-design-history/index.html 

 

READ or hear the voice of Gilbert Baker in this NPR short audio. Audie Cornish, the interviewer, was a TEAMS student.

 

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/21/533844029/pride-events-honor-memory-of-gilbert-baker-and-his-rainbow-flag

 

2. List 6 facts you learned from viewing the video AND reading or hearing the interview with Gilbert Baker about the RAINBOW FLAG he designed.

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Learning Activity 2

 

 How Do We Make the Accomplishments of Diverse Persons KNOWN and REMEMBERED?

 

 

VIEW   Video to learn about California's FAIR Education Act

 

The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act was passed in 2011 and

went into effect on January 1, 2012.

 

The FAIR Act requires all public schools to include to include in the curriculum the contributions of diverse populations to the development of the United States and the state of California, specifically “Pacific Islanders, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and persons with disabilities."

3. Compose a haiku or a tweet that clearly and briefly explains the purpose of California's FAIR Education Act that we learn about in the video.

 

You do not need to post the tweet.

 

 

4. In a sentence or two, summarize the information from ‘What Does the Law Say, Exactly?’ (Scroll below the video to FAIR Education Act FAQs.) 

  Read underneath the video FAIR EDUCATION ACT FAQs

 

 

 

 

In TEAMS "Whose History Whose Science" class, we learned of WOMEN who MADE THE FUTURE but are not mentioned in math, science, history, English, engineering, medicine, art and STEM textbooks or classes for K-12 students.

 

LACK of knowledge about people in the LGBTQIA community, people who shaped history, is what the Fair Education Act emphasizes.

 

 

Their names and accomplishments need to be known.

 

 

A Canva comic created by former TEAMS site coordinator Tyler Volpe-Knock introduces 

Barbara Gittings, known as the Mother of Gay Rights.

 

 

For this part of the assignment, create a Canva poster, compose poems with pictures, illustrate a comic, design a Frayer Model or do something else THAT IS NEW TO YOU.

 

If you have hand drawn other posters, use an online tool this time.

 

Log the time designing and making your information as self-tutoring OR tutoring others hours, whichever category you wish.

 

5. Select ONE PERSON or ONE EVENT/TOPIC from the live links below for your creative design project.

  

Insert your design into your assignment document or attach it to your Canvas submission as a media file.

Describe 6 life accomplishments of the person you choose.

 

CHOOSE A PERSON OR AN EVENT/TOPIC YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT TO LEARN THIS WEEK.

 

Bayard Rustin    Langston Hughes   Alan Turing   Harvey Milk   Sally Ride    Babe Didrikson Zaharias   Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

The Stonewall Uprising     The Lavender Scare     The HIV AIDS Pandemic in the U.S.     LGBTQ Rights Court Cases     Equal Protection for Race, Gender and Disability

 

 

                          

We will add your creation to pages in Bob's history wiki and credit you as the designer.

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Learning Activity 3

 

ALL people contribute ideas, inventions and information to our lives

 

 

Women are athletes, scientists, inventors, researchers, explorers, creators and society changers and we should know their names and contributions to our lives.

 

LGBTQIA people are athletes, scientists, inventors, researchers, explorers, creators and society changers and we should know their names and contributions to our lives.

 

 

 

6. Where in your social media, readings, viewings, podcasts or streaming services, movies, TV, do you find information and resources that inform you about LGBTQIA individuals making new inventions; working in politics; designing; composing; creating; and influencing our world today and in the future?

 

 

 

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NOT part of the assignment.

 

Using People/Person-First Language

 

 

 

People/Person First Language Reflects  

 

Accurately and Respectfully Talking About People’s Identities, Situations, and Roles in Society

 

In this workshop, you are evaluating common words and terms to change them from harmful and demeaning to some to inclusive and respectful of all.

 

 

 

3. Choose 2 terms from EACH of the 6 categories TO REVISE/REWRITE in People/Person First Language

 

You may also add a work or term to any category and redefine it if you would like to.

 

 

 

Socially Charged language (words that privilege one group over another)   What terms would you use to replace?   Master bedroom or bathroom →   Black mark →   Master Chef →   Man-made →   Master of Ceremonies →   Illegal immigrant→

Gendered language  (words that assume or favor one gender over another)     What terms would you use to replace?   Mankind→   Parent Conferences →   Chairman or foreman →   Congressman→   All Men are Created Equal → Middleman →    Freshman --

Ableist language (words that privilege a certain body condition or type)     What terms would you use to replace?   Hearing impaired→   Lame →   Disabled list →   Falling on deaf ears →   Normal →   Crazy→   Dumb →

Ageist language (words that support age-based stereotypes)     What terms would you use to replace?    Grandfathered→   Little old lady→   Grumpy old man→   Over the hill→   young at heart →   Old folks home →   Golden years →   Washed up →   Older and wiser→

Violent language (words that encourage aggression or harm) What terms would you use to replace?   killing it→   Straight Shooter→   Shoot me an email →  Target audience →   Take a stab at it →   When push comes to shove →   Blown away →   Getting Crushed →   Brutally honest →

Educational Language (Words used in schools to label kids)   What terms would you use to replace?   Needs improvement →    Checked Out→    Confused →   Careless →    At-risk →    Struggling →    Disadvantaged →   Misconduct →   ADHD →

 

 

 

 Impacts of Bullying and Anti-LGBTQIA Bias

 

 

Information from the 2021 Executive Report National School Climate Survey with data and infographics.

 

3. WHAT information in THE LIST BELOW from the 2021 GLSEN Survey reminds you of what did or might have occurred to kids in your high school?

 

 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ THE SURVEY, ONLY THE ITEMS LISTED HERE:

 

• 97% of students heard "gay" used in a negative way at school; 93.7% reported feeling distressed by the use of that language.

 

• 58% reported hearing homophobic remarks from teachers or other school staff;

 

• 72% reported hearing negative remarks about their gender expression from teachers or other school staff.

 

• 32.2% missed at least one day of school in the past month because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable at school.

 

•  76.1% experienced in-person verbal harassment 

 

• 31.2% were physically harassed (e.g., pushed or shoved) in the past year based on based on their sexual orientation, gender expression, or gender 

 

• Students who experienced higher levels of victimization in school because of sexual orientation or gender expression were more than twice as likely to report they did not intend to pursue post-secondary education.

 

 

 

Go to What Can Schools Do? if information prior to the recommendations is sensitive to read.

 

  Hostile Hallways: Sexual Harassment

 

READ four recommendations under What Can Schools Do?' section in the report.

 

Consider how YOU would want to explain to middle and high school students the ideas to stop sexual harassment and provide a safe school environment.

 

4. Rewrite in kid friendly language THE FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS in Hostile Hallways: Sexual Harassment.

 

 

5. Were any of these FOUR recommendations publicly stated in schools you attended before college?

 

xx. In a sentence or two, summarize the information in 'What Does the Law Say, Exactly?

 (Scroll below the video to FAIR Education Act FAQs.)