{"id":2274,"date":"2021-10-08T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2023-12-08T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:36:23","slug":"a-reflection-on-ctls-supporting-2slgbtqi-students-in-and-outside-the-college-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2021\/10\/08\/a-reflection-on-ctls-supporting-2slgbtqi-students-in-and-outside-the-college-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection on CTL\u2019s Supporting 2SLGBTQI+ Students In and Outside the College Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Teresa L. Ashford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

About the author: After 17 years away, Teresa recently returned to OSU as an instructor in the HDFS department. Previously, Teresa taught for five years in the OSU laboratory preschool \u2013 Child Development Center\/Head Start program \u2013 and has more than 20 cumulative years of university-level teaching experience at multiple institutions, including OSU-Cascades, Washington State University Vancouver, WSU Global Campus, and Central Oregon Community College (COCC). For the past 11 years, she also owned and operated a developmentally-appropriate preschool rooted in social justice in Bend, Oregon. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Dharma Mizra\u2019s talk on Supporting 2SLGBTQI+ Students In and Outside the College Classroom <\/a>. She spent time highlighting ways educators can better support and include 2SLGBTQI+ students in our college community. She also provided resources available on our campus and in the broader community. She wrapped up by sharing statistics from the HRC<\/a> and the Williams Institute<\/a> on the impacts the Covid Pandemic has had on the lives in 2SLGBTQI+ students. As members of minoritized groups, the data was grim. It highlighted, however, the powerful differences we can make in the lives of our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I am member of the 2SLGBTQI+ community, I was still able to take away considerable information to improve my practice, specifically as it related to individual classroom communities. A bit of new learning for me was the acronym QTI+. Mizra highlighted that it represents Queer, Trans, and Intersex+ individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though we are only two weeks into the term, I\u2019ve had several students approach me to share their name in Canvas does not match the name they use. I was able to discover that students can change their name-in-use,<\/a> without having to have a legal name change. This will help students stay safe in our classrooms and in our Canvas spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who is passionate about our evolving language, I was also reminded of different ways to refer to folx when we are talking about physiology and anatomy in our classrooms. Exclusively using \u2018men\u2019 and \u2018women\u2019 is outdated and incomplete. Following are some different terms I\u2019ve used in my classrooms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n