Chosen Family: Understanding the Chosen Kin Community as a Model for Liberation
Our queer and trans students hold the keys to their own liberation. One of these keys is "chosen family," chosen kin communities created as alternatives to birth families. This concept of chosen family is an asset our queer and trans students bring with them onto our campuses and into our classrooms. How do we incorporate this asset into the academic and social aspects of their time in college? And for what purposes? We will discuss the triumphs and challenges in answering these questions within various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
The 2017 CCC LGBTQ+ Summit inspired COD leadership, faculty, and staff to establish a taskforce to institutionalize comprehensive LGBTQIA+ student support. Using a set of ambitious goals to guide our work, COD’s taskforce developed several recommendations that have been adopted by our District, including opening a new Gender and Sexual Diversity Pride Center and making Safe Zone training a mainstream college program. We look forward to sharing how our taskforce got started, the paths it has taken, and how it has been an effective way to implement LGBTQIA+ programming.
Using the bathroom is a basic human need and right. Yet, at many community colleges, public bathrooms continue to be physically and psychologically unsafe for trans and gender expansive students, faculty and staff. In this presentation, we outline our advocacy efforts for all-gender restrooms at Santa Monica College. Specifically, we identify key administrative and institutional partnerships, student-driven initiatives, educational programming, and public pressure strategies that have enabled our successes. In sharing our experiences and resources, we aim to demystify the institutional process for updating extant bathroom facilities and ensuring all-gender restrooms in future building construction
Queer liberation and racial justice movements hold shared values and a commitment to transformational change in our political and cultural institutions. However, racism, settler-colonialism, and cis-heteropatriarchy work to separate LGBTQ+ spaces from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, constraining opportunities for collaboration and growth. In this workshop, presenters draw on their combined experiences working for intersectional justice as educators, advocates, researchers, and consultants. Participants will learn from examples of this work in the classroom and community-based advocacy, as well as effective strategies for bridging between on-campus and off-campus social justice work.
Pronouns are an important part of gender identity and a way to show respect for people and their gender, especially for those who identify as non-binary or transgender. Learn more about how one college has embraced change by increasing the implementation of chosen personal pronoun usage across campus. Strategies, suggestions, and resources will be shared in order to increase visibility, awareness, acceptance, and inclusion for students, staff, faculty, and administrators.
This presentation will be an interactive discussion about results from Delta college’s campus climate survey the Diverse Learning Environment Survey (DLE). Data will show that LGBTQ+ students report experiencing more bias and discrimination than other groups. There will be a section on intersectionality. Participants will be asked to take the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and discuss their results if they feel comfortable doing so. We will discuss our history of successes and failures concerning LGBTQ+ student services. Together in this session, we will brainstorm methods to reduce bias for our queer, trans, and non-binary students.
This long-form training is a basic training with discussions, allowing for more time and in-depth communication than a shorter 1-3 hour training. People can take their time, look things up, and it’s more accessible. We focused on terms, concepts, and the struggles of queer people. 1st half: we’ll present the 7-module LGBTQIA2S+ Foundations training we are sharing in Canvas Commons and discuss how to implement on other campuses! Second half: Let’s imagine better training! Join us in discussion of what you’ve seen on your campuses, what worked/did not, what you’d like to see, suggestions for us, etc!
Literature around Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) has been on a steady increase with a focus on racialized experiences, servingness, and outcomes. Yet, much of the research is situated within the four-year higher education context. Scholarship around HSI community colleges has emerged, yet a paucity remains in explicitly centering LGBTQ+ Latinx/a/o students. This presentation will provide insight on how HSI designation can be paired with Title V and Title III policy at the implementation level through a critical policy analysis, multidimensional conceptual understanding of servingness, and queer theory lens to support Latinx/a/o LGBTQ+ community college students. Recommendations for policy and practice on how current servingness can be inclusive of LGBTQ+ Latinx students will be provided.
In this session, you will learn about the collaboration between MiraCosta College’s Student Equity and Counseling Departments as we work toward better supporting our LGBTQIA+ student population. First, we will (re)introduce MiraCosta College’s data collection and findings. Then, we will highlight how MiraCosta College has been supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. Specifically, we will discuss both the strides and challenges we have encountered while developing an LGBTQIA+ Linked Learning Academic Success & Equity Program virtually and in person. Lastly, we hope this session inspires you to advocate for similar equity programs at your campus to continue supporting LGBTQIA+ students.
Our session will cover the services and initiatives of the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center supporting the basic needs and wellbeing of trans and non-binary students at UC Santa Cruz. With a $10,000 budget for trans-related initiatives, we distributed care packages, emergency and professional development grants, and free binders. Our basic needs services also include a gender-affirming clothing closet, anonymous food pantry, sexual and menstrual health resources, and LGBTQ-focused book/media library. We aim to demonstrate how we coordinate these initiatives so that other campus representatives might feel supported in starting or sustaining similar initiatives in their communities.
It is critical to examine the experiences of LGBTQ+ educators as a group because their lack of representation is a symptom of a larger issue in the public education system. We know that representation for marginalized groups has a critical impact on students’ lives, including issues around bullying and self esteem. Having out teachers and allies has a positive impact on the educational outcomes of all students (Kosciw et. al, 2019, p. 75). Increasing support for LGBTQ+ educators increases the likelihood that they will enter into and stay in the teaching profession, improving outcomes for students and helping to address the teacher shortage overall. Support begins in pre-service teaching programs, including affirming student teaching placements, culturally responsive pedagogy, and knowledgeable faculty.
All students, including trans students, deserve to feel recognized, safe, and a sense of belonging on campus. But campus facilities alone can make or break these feelings. So, what kinds of facility designs and policies do trans folks need you to advocate for, why are these so crucial to our well-being, and how do you make them both a priority and a reality despite limited financial resources? Brought to you by Arien Reed who began his gender transition while working on campus at Fresno City College, this session will use trans culture, factual data, and lived experiences to address these concerns, and to also offer guidance on how to inclusively meet the requirements of the new AB 367 bill.
Some colleges have a LGBTQ+ Safe Space/Zone Ally Program but almost no colleges have a Trans Ally Program. As a trans person myself, I often feel awkward even with well-meaning colleagues who are certified Safe Space Allies, usually because they get awkward around me. During my first year of transitioning and living openly as trans, I realized cisgender folks needed more education specifically in trans culture and trans ally etiquette than the broadly inclusive Safe Space Program can provide. In this presentation, I will share the training program I developed and foster a discussion on how to start and maintain such a program at your own colleges.
This session is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students, faculty and staff who are deciding if they should stay or move out of state for school or work. We will have a panel of experts of Queer and Trans BIPOC students, staff who have had to move to college, graduate school or their career. We will discuss personal experiences and tips on how to navigate transitioning across state lines.
Our institutions were not built to support transgender and nonbinary students. It is up to us to make the changes needed to keep our trans, nonbinary, and queer students safe, supported, and successful. In this presentation Brit Cervantes, of the UCI Gender Diversity Program, and Erin Pollard, of the Pride Scholars Program at Irvine Valley College, will share insight into trans college experiences, relevant laws that govern this work, and ideas to create an environment where trans and nonbianary students know that they are valued members of our campus communities. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of trans student needs and a list of ideas for action items to start these changes on their campus.
The Road Passing The LGBTQIA Student Bill of Rights at The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees approved the first-ever resolution for an LGBTQIA+ Bill of Rights on behalf of students,faculty and staff. Trustee David Vela, who chaired the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQIA+ Affairs, called for and unanimously passed the first in the nation resolution to serve as a national role model for other community colleges. this motion supported the creation of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBTQIA+ Affairs to provide guidance and advice to the Board of Trustees and the Chancellor on how best to support the safety and well-being of all students and employees, specifically those in the LGBTQIA+ community, and to move the District and colleges forward in this effort; and, aware to make LACCD safe and welcoming to LGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty and administrators.
This workshop is intended to provide a deeper learning into a variety of non-heteronormative relationships and obtain more awareness and understanding of relationship definitions that are more expansive, non-monogamous, and fluid. Participants will gain a greater understanding of diverse relationships across a multitude of gender and sexual identities. We will examine the different dynamics that take place within a variety of relationships that ultimately deviate from the societal standards of the monogamous, heteronormative model. It will also touch upon media’s representation of LGBTQ relationships, as well as how social media platforms and dating apps shape relationships in the queer community.
Join our panel of trans and nonbinary college students and recent grads as they share the specific things they wish their professors had known (or thought to ask in the first place). A chance to ask questions and hear from trans and nonbinary educators, activists, and students.
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New Summit Web site: https://foundationccc.org/What-We-Do/Equity/CCC-LGBTQ-Summit The CCC LGBTQ+ Summit has establish a permanent home ...
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New Summit Web site: https://foundationccc.org/What-We-Do/Equity/CCC-LGBTQ-Summit The CCC LGBTQ+ Summit has establish a permanent home ... -
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The 4th CCC LGBTQ+ Summit will be held online May 4 & 5, 2022 from 9:00am to 2:00pm both days. Check out the schedule here . The Summit ...