Dei Gender And Sexuality Inclusiveness Resources
GENDER & SEXUALITY INCLUSIVENESS RESOURCES
GENDER & SEXUALITY DEFINITIONS
Are you questioning your gender or sexual identity or want help understanding what a friend or coworker is experiencing? There’s a guide where you can find out more and explore different gender and sexual identities. Sometimes we need words to express what’s happening inside.
GENDER PRONOUNS
At NYFA, we encourage our introductions to include our gender pronoun (GP for example: she/her, he/his, they/them, xe/xem, they/he, and others) with the recognition that this part of our identity can be hidden. Creating an affirming community is all of our responsibility. Therefore, we must ask, not assume, operate from humility and not impose our impressions or assumptions on the people we meet. Asking for and offering your own pronouns, especially if you are cis, is a subtle communication that normalizes different gender IDs within our diverse creative space.
You don’t have to have all the answers for friends who don’t understand. Ask them to do some learning and exploration on their own:
NYFA DEI EMPLOYEE RESOURCES
NYFA’s Center for Excellence In Teaching and Learning (CETL)
CETL Google Drive - DEI Resources (Available to NYFA Employees Only)
CETL Google Classroom (Available to NYFA Employees Only)
LISTEN: A LENS ON GENDER & SEXUALITY
Making Gay History Host: Eric Marcus
Ted Radio Hour on The Biology of Sex
The Read (Black Queer Friendship, Hip-Hop, and Life in New York City)
WATCH: A LENS ON GENDER & SEXUALITY
NYFA’S Understanding Diversity & Intersectionality
WATCH: ESSENTIAL FILMS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED/DIVERSE ARTISTS
Disclosure (netflix documentary)
READ: AVAILABLE AT NYFA
READ: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Learn the history of the Stonewall Riots in NYC.
Read about the Supreme Court decision to protect LGBTQI civil rights at work.
Because We Are Human: Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad by Cynthia Burack
Introduction to Transgender Studies by Adel Haefele-Thomas, Thatcher Combs, Cameron Rains
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov, A. Scott Duane
Queer Voices from the Locker Room by Cu-Hullan Tsuyoshi McGivern, Paul Chamness Miller
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming The Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation
The Book of Pride: LGBT Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
RESOURCES FOR LGBTQI COMMUNITY MEMBERS
COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES
NYC Comprehensive LGBTQ Services List
The Okra Project (Food Delivery to Black Trans Folx)
For the Gworls (Money Assistance for Rent & Gender Confirmation Surgery for Black Trans Folx)
LEGAL SUPPORTS
New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) The LGBTQ Law Project provides high-quality, free legal services in a wide variety of civil legal matters impacting the LGBTQ community.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.
MEDICAL CARE
Search for competent and supportive medical care through OutCare, a national database of providers from different disciplines who are attuned to the needs of LGBTQ community.
Callen Lorde Community Health Care Clinic is one of the oldest medical centers for the LGBTQ community in NYC.
Adolescent Health Center @ Mt. Sinai Free and confidential health care for adolescents aged 10-22.
Apicha Community Health Center provides affordable community health care for underserved or “otherized” people living in the New York.