The Savvy Ally - A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate (Paperback)

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: *Updated and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language *What to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you *LGBTQ+ etiquette and common bloopers to avoid *Techniques for respectfully and effectively navigating difficult conversations *Addressing common questions and concerns *Suggested actions for creating more inclusive spaces *Sustaining our ally actions and taking care of ourselves This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as parents who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to build the reader's confidence in their ability to have respectful and useful conversations for and with LGBTQ+ individuals, and to offer tools to be effective advocates for change.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2020
Authors:	Jeannie Gainsburg
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-3677-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5381-3677-5
Barcode:	9781538136775

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