Each year the LGBTQIA Resource Center provides a variety of sessions for faculty, staff and graduate students at Georgia Tech. The LGBTQIA Resource Center would like to invite you to our Fall 2021 opportunities for engagement and education. Programs include Level Up, Safe Space, Trans 101, and our Reading Rainbows series. Information, registration, and event logistics about each program is below.
- Level Up: https://lgbtqia.gatech.edu/level-advanced-allyship-course
- Bi-weekly sessions on Thursdays from 9:00am-10:30am continuing through Thursday, November 18th. This interactive course is designed to build on the knowledge and skills developed in Safe Space by digging deeper into topics and concepts related to LGBTQIA histories, identities, and communities. Sessions for Level Up 1 include: Historical Foundations (history of LGBTQIA activism and progress), Trans 201, Queer People of Color and Racial Justice in Queer Communities, Intersectionality and Allyship 1. We will provide a make-up session on Monday, November 22nd for any missed sessions.
- Safe Space: https://lgbtqia.gatech.edu/safe-space
- Training sessions are open to all employees, graduate students, postdocs, and GT affiliates who have a sincere interest in learning more about how to practice allyship to the LGBTQIA community.
- Wednesday Oct 20 AND Friday Oct 22 from 1-3pm (virtual)
- Tuesday, Nov 9th from 12:30-4:30pm
- Training sessions are open to all employees, graduate students, postdocs, and GT affiliates who have a sincere interest in learning more about how to practice allyship to the LGBTQIA community.
- Trans 101: https://lgbtqia.gatech.edu/trans-101
- Trans 101 is the LGBTQIA Resource Center’s introductory education program designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to support transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender questioning individuals at Georgia Tech.
- Wednesday, Oct 13 from 9:30am-12pm (virtual)
- Tuesday, Nov 16th from 2:00-4:30pm (in person)
- Trans 101 is the LGBTQIA Resource Center’s introductory education program designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to support transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender questioning individuals at Georgia Tech.
- Reading Rainbows: https://lgbtqia.gatech.edu/reading-rainbows
- Reading Rainbows, a diversity and inclusion workshop series, gives students, faculty, and staff a space to engage with content at the intersection of LGBTQIA identity or experience
- Friday, October 29th from 12-1:00pm (virtual): Diving into the LGBTQ Game Archive
- Friday, December 3rd from 12-1:00pm (virtual): AIDS and the 80s Through Film
- Reading Rainbows, a diversity and inclusion workshop series, gives students, faculty, and staff a space to engage with content at the intersection of LGBTQIA identity or experience
Attached you will also find our ‘how to’ guide for creating an inclusive classroom which is a complimentary guide to Safe Space. This resource provides strategies for creating LGBTQIA-inclusive classrooms that we how you will use every semester you teach or engage with students.
Please let me know if you have any questions about any of the above opportunities or resources. We look forward to engaging with you.
In Community,
Tegra Myanna
Tegra Myanna, M.A. (they/them)
Director, LGBTQIA Resource Center
Division of Student Engagement & Well-Being
Institute Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Georgia Institute of Technology
404 385-2679 | tegra.myanna@studentlife.gatech.edu | gatech.edu