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.
- ISBN10 1538136783
- ISBN13 9781538136782
- Publish Date 12 March 2020
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 184
- Language English