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Watch Your Language! A Foundational Course Exploring Language Of Gender And Sexuality, Raeann Risko Jul 2021

Watch Your Language! A Foundational Course Exploring Language Of Gender And Sexuality, Raeann Risko

Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Summer Fellows

How do language and word choice influence the way people think about gender and sexuality? This question is addressed through a syllabus for an entry level college course, which includes suggested readings and activities along with explanations and advice for instructors. This course provides a foundation for understanding the power of language and the impact that the vocabulary used to describe people in relation to their gender and sexuality has. The purpose of the course is to offer an interactive guide for students to consider the many different ways that words may be used or misused, understood or misunderstood. This …


The Importance Of Inclusive Spaces In Social Skills Development: Drawing On The Lgbtq Educational And Disability Studies In Education Frameworks, Aja Mckee, Audri Sandoval Gomez, Kevin Stockbridge Mar 2021

The Importance Of Inclusive Spaces In Social Skills Development: Drawing On The Lgbtq Educational And Disability Studies In Education Frameworks, Aja Mckee, Audri Sandoval Gomez, Kevin Stockbridge

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This manuscript highlights a major finding from a larger study conducted in the United States that used phenomenological interviews with adults with autism who typed to communicate. Participants shared their United States educational experiences before and after learning to type. This finding focused on how disability studies in education and the development of inclusive spaces, such as those designed for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) students, may change the way in which educators support students with autism in developing and sustaining natural and meaningful friendships. Thus, this paper examined the social experiences of one participant who …


Towards A More Inclusive Music Education: Experiences Of Lgbtqqiaa Students In Music Teacher Education Programs Across Pennsylvania, Edward J. Holmes, Brent C. Talbot Jan 2017

Towards A More Inclusive Music Education: Experiences Of Lgbtqqiaa Students In Music Teacher Education Programs Across Pennsylvania, Edward J. Holmes, Brent C. Talbot

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Faculty Publications

During the past decade, the field of music education has seen an increase in the amount of scholarship surrounding LGBTQ studies in music teaching and learning. For example, the University of Illinois hosted three symposia for the field of music education dedicated to LGBTQ studies (2010, 2012, 2016), and proceedings from these symposia were published in three separate issues of the of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (2011, 2014, 2016). Other notable scholarship has been published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (Gould 2005); the Music Educators Journal (Bergonzi, 2009; Carter, 2011; McBride, …


Lgbtqia Resources, Office Of Diversity And Inclusion Jul 2016

Lgbtqia Resources, Office Of Diversity And Inclusion

LGBTQIA Archive

Brochure created to list various departments and affinity groups offering resources and support to the LGBTQIA community at the College of the Holy Cross.


Lgbtqia Mentoring Program, Office Of Diversity And Inclusion Jun 2016

Lgbtqia Mentoring Program, Office Of Diversity And Inclusion

LGBTQIA Archive

This document lists faculty and staff at the College of the Holy Cross who have identified themselves as members or allies of the LGBTQIA community working to create networking and mentoring opportunities for current students.


Evaluating A Safe Space Training For Professional School Counselors And Trainees Using A Randomized Control Group Design, Rebekah J. Byrd, Danica Hays Jan 2013

Evaluating A Safe Space Training For Professional School Counselors And Trainees Using A Randomized Control Group Design, Rebekah J. Byrd, Danica Hays

ETSU Faculty Works

School counselors need to advocate and act as an ally for all students. Safe Space, a training designed to facilitate competency for working with and serving LGBTQ youth (i.e., LGBTQ competency), has received increased attention in the field of school counseling. However, limited empirical support exists for training interventions such as Safe Space, with only one study to date examining its effectiveness for graduate psychology students (see Finkel, Storaasli, Bandele, & Schaefer, 2003). This study used a randomized pretest-posttest control group design to evaluate and examine the impact of Safe Space training on competency levels of a sample of school …


Abigale-Allies Networking Reception, Abigale/Allies Sep 2011

Abigale-Allies Networking Reception, Abigale/Allies

LGBTQIA Archive

Invitation to a networking reception during the College of the Holy Cross Fall Homecoming 2011. This event was sponsored by ABiGale/Allies, a Gay-Straight Alliance dedicated to raising awareness about LGBTQ issues to the Holy Cross community.


Resspect Pamphlet, Abigale/Allies Sep 2011

Resspect Pamphlet, Abigale/Allies

LGBTQIA Archive

This pamphlet promotes the ReSSpect training workshops and lists other campus events offered by ABiGale/Allies, an alliance group at the College of the Holy Cross.


A Vigil Of Prayer And Public Witness, Chaplain's Office Oct 2010

A Vigil Of Prayer And Public Witness, Chaplain's Office

LGBTQIA Archive

Program for a prayer vigil held at teh College of the Holy Cross in support of the GLBTQ community.


We’Re Coming Out! – “Home” And “Away” Identities In The Field Of International Education: An Emotional Construction And Negotiation Of The Self, Paul St. John Frisoli Jan 2007

We’Re Coming Out! – “Home” And “Away” Identities In The Field Of International Education: An Emotional Construction And Negotiation Of The Self, Paul St. John Frisoli

Master's Capstone Projects

Once upon a time, there was a young man from the country of Federation. In this era of postmodernism, Paul St. John Frisoli held fragmented and multiple identities that were at times complimentary and contradictory. He believed that whether he was angry, happy, frustrated, or satisfied that emotions offered clues to these identities. One day, Paul left for the islands of Banga Sharini where he worked on the WEZAP radio project that was funded by the Federation Agency for International Development (FAID). During his stay, he developed new Consultant and Foreign Identity selves while leaving his “home” identities of the …