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PRC's Pride Partnership with Reimagine Gender – Browse the resources created for organizations to become more gender-inclusive environments

To celebrate Pride month in 2021, the PR Council partnered with Reimagine Gender, an organization dedicated to helping corporations, NGOs, families, and policymakers better understand gender so they can help their communities thrive. The goal of the partnership is to help the PRC’s member firms create more inclusive workplace practices and provide more culturally competent counsel to clients.

Here at SourceCode, we are committed to continued learning and education around the evolving gender-inclusivity conversations and are excited to support PR Council’s partnership with Reimagine Gender. 

Throughout Pride month, PRC worked with Reimagine Gender to help members, like SourceCode, think beyond the binary and take actions to help make workplaces, counsel and campaigns more inclusive. Below is a round-up of the educational content and resources included to help individuals and organizations dig deeper and take action to become more gender inclusive throughout June and beyond.

Learning the key differences between Gender, Identity, Sex and Sexual Orientation

Starting off this month with the basics — to help you and your organization expand your understanding of gender. Reimagine Gender breaks down the key differences between gender identity, sex, and sexual orientation, which are often conflated and incorrectly used interchangeably. You’ll also have a chance to explore your own gender story. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3gnbQCL 

Understanding Gender Newsletter

In an effort to expand our understanding of gender and how we embody the most inclusive counsel and business practices, Reimagine Gender published a newsletter to act as a resource for continued learning. Systemic change and our personal journeys in self-awareness and unlearning is an ongoing effort, so the newsletter acts as a way to support their work with companies, organizations, families and more to think outside the binary. Sign up here: https://www.reimaginegender.org/

Addressing pronouns 

Pronouns are crucial to understanding the LBGTQIA+ community. This resource outlines their importance, how we ask about them, and how to respectfully move forward when we make a mistake. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/2UwTOFN

At SourceCode, we encourage all staff to update their pronouns across company emails and business profiles, to foster a healthier, safe space so everyone can bring their whole self to work and be respected for it.

Reimagine Gender is working with companies, communities, families and more to help expand people’s understanding of gender. You can support the organization’s vital work and mission by donating today here: https://bit.ly/2S4IhN2

To learn more about the PR Council’s and Reimagine Gender’s efforts during Pride Month, visit https://prcouncil.net/gender/. Don’t forget to check out SourceCode’ progress of making decisions based on equity and inclusivity through our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion page here. 

by Gaby

SourceCode Communications Celebrates and Honors Pride Month

Every June, we celebrate, honor and commemorate LGBTQA+ Pride Month in the U.S. Officially recognized in 1969 following the Stonewall riots, with the first Pride March occurring in 1970, Pride Month celebrates the LGBTQA+ movement. While Pride Marches have occurred globally for the past few decades and companies across industries have started to make a greater effort to honor the community, it’s important to understand the history of the movement. 

The term “Pride” can be credited to Brenda Howard, a bisexual New York activist nicknamed the "Mother of Pride," who organized the first Pride parade to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. We can also recognize Harvey Milk for the traditional pride rainbow flag, a symbol that is inclusive and represents a broad community of lesbian, gay, bisexual people, people who are trans, poly, asexual or queer. 

In honor of Pride, the SourceCode team has compiled resources for continued learning, opportunities for shopping at small businesses, attending events or rallies and supporting the movement all year round. See some of those resources below:  

Learn (Read, Watch & Listen)

Read

• Tomorrow Will Be Different, before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president.
• The Stonewall Reader, June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library’s archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots.
• Sissy, as a young child in North Carolina, Jacob Tobia wasn’t the wrong gender, they just had too much of the stuff. Barbies? Yes. Playing with bugs? Absolutely. Getting muddy? Please. Princess dresses? You betcha. Jacob wanted it all, but because they were “a boy,” they were told they could only have the masculine half. Acting feminine labelled them “a sissy” and brought social isolation.

Watch 

• Pride (2021), “PRIDE” is a six-part documentary series chronicling the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America from the 1950s through the 2000s. Six renowned LGBTQ+ directors explore heroic and heartbreaking stories that define us as a nation. The limited series spans the FBI surveillance of homosexuals during the 1950s Lavender Scare to the “Culture Wars” of the 1990s and beyond, exploring the queer legacy of the Civil Rights movement and the battle over marriage equality. The evolution of trans rights and identities through the decades is charted through interviews and archival footage of pioneers
• Love, Victor (2020 - Present), Set in the world of the original 2018 film “Love, Simon,” the series follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.
• Changing The Game (2021), CHANGING THE GAME takes us into the lives of three high school athletes—all at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and unique paths as transgender teens.

Listen

• Getting Curious, a weekly exploration of all the things Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye, Gay of Thrones) is curious about. Come on a journey with Jonathan and experts in their respective fields as they get curious about anything and everything under the sun.
• Food 4 Thot, a roundtable discussion podcast wherein a multiracial mix of queer writers talk sex, relationships, race, identity, what we like to read, and who we like to read.
• Making Gay History, intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history brought to you from rare archival interviews.

Shop

• Otherwild
• Fluide
• Wildfang

Events  

• New York Pride taking place Sunday, June 27 
• San Francisco Pride 
• Denver Pride
• Key West Pride
  

Support

• The Trevor Project, founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25.
• It Gets Better Project, the It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth around the globe. Learn more about our work.
• National Center for Transgender Equality, The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.

In 2020, SourceCode committed to being more intentional about building a team and a commercial entity that was both more reflective of the world we live in, and more financially engaged with communities of color. To keep up with our progress of making decisions based on equity and inclusivity, check out our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion page here.

by Gaby