As we look forward to Trans Day of Visibility on Friday 31 March, the Pulse LGBT+ Staff Network invites staff and PGRs to join the Trans and Non-Binary Safe Listening Space on Wednesday 29 March, 11:00-12:00.
Trans Day of Visibility (TDoV) celebrates the accomplishments, contributions, and resilience of trans and gender non-conforming people. This year, the TDoV campaign is “I Am Enough.” The campaign aims to affirm and empower trans people and raise awareness and allyship among cis (non-trans) people.
Our Safe Listening Space provides an opportunity for a confidential, open discussion focused on lived experience in a safe environment. It will be held via Teams, and sessions will not be recorded to protect the confidentiality of attendees. Key themes from the session may be anonymously shared with the EDI team and staff network to support future work.
Introducing our facilitators
Imogen Gingell is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and a member of the Pulse LGBT+ Network Committee.
Alex Melhuish is an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist in the University’s EDI Team. He’s a member of the Pulse LGBT+ Network and strongly supports trans allyship.
If you would like to find out more or book a place, please email [email protected].
We look forward to listening to you.
Awareness and allyship
Trans Day of Visibility is a great opportunity to learn more about what it means to be trans or gender non-conforming, and how to be an ally. We have lots of resources to help:
- Make sure you’ve completed the mandatory EDI Briefing. If you’ve done that, then try the follow-up Managing Diversity course.
- We have ‘bitesize learning’ on LGBTQ+ Inclusion.
- Read our toolkit on LGBTQ+ Inclusive Language and using pronouns.
