Workshop | Pronoun Practice Workshop

Pronouns are shorthand that don’t convey the complexity of our gender. Pronouns are one VISIBLE part to the gender/identity journey - and not necessarily the most important part - but practice brings more presence to the fact that we live amongst and are people with varying gender identities. When we share our pronouns with each other, we are asking and showing respect for this piece of each other’s identity.

This workshop helps normalize the idea that you can’t know someone’s pronouns or gender identity just by looking at them.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This Pronoun Practice Workshop is open to anyone of any gender. It is geared towards cis* people who might be newer to thinking about and practicing with a variety of pronoun possibilities. Non-binary and trans people are, of course, welcome to attend and should consider your needs in being around the indelicate practice of primarily cis folks with a stated goal of being intentionally misgendered.

Cis or Cisgender = the sex you were assigned at birth is the same as the gender you choose today.

***Resources → (1) www.mypronouns.org (2) The Pronouns Song by Sunday Comes Afterward and The Doubleclicks

Sandy Bacharach, a white cisgender queer woman, provides bilingual (Spanish/English) equity-informed coaching, consultation, mediation, facilitation, and training on topics such as: communication and conflict resolution, interrupting racism, institutional equity, working with white parents to talk about race and racism with their children, and pronoun practice. Sandy loves to create and refine curriculum, develop and facilitate professional training & dialogue series and workshops for adults and youth. She believes that the best training/workshop/dialogue experience is one where the wisdom of the room is able to come out and where she can hold space and challenge participants to go deeper. It is in the conversations themselves that foundational skills are practiced and reimagined. Sandy loves a good agenda (plan) and blends that with following the needs of the group in front of her, staying flexible to a group’s needs as well as with a lens to stated outcomes.