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jducoeur ([personal profile] jducoeur) wrote in [personal profile] andrewducker 2019-12-03 06:56 pm (UTC)

Dear (Cis) People Who Put Your Pronouns On Your "Hello My Name Is" Name Tags

Yeah, I've been hearing this from my trans friends for some years now, and Arisia (our local SF/F con) now routinely stocks enormous numbers of pronoun ribbons of many different permutations, and encourages everyone to join in. It does a lot to normalize the fact that folks' pronouns are *not* always obvious, and that it's polite to check.

I've picked that up and am doing it for a small tech conference I help run, which has taught me that several people there are non-binary but don't usually have a way to express it. I was pleasantly surprised that something like 75% of the attendees participated -- one of the many reasons I love that conference...

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