The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate,Second Edition, is a comprehensive guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities, providing practical and useful tools for advocacy, including current information on identities, pronouns, etiquette, and creating inclusive spaces. It is useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and parents who want to support their LGBTQ+ children.

Format: Hardback
Length: 286 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate, Second Edition, is a delightful, witty, and uplifting guidebook for becoming an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is packed with practical and valuable tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy. This fully revised second edition includes:

The most up-to-date information on identities and LGBTQ+ language.

Tips for respectfully sharing, gathering, and using pronouns.

LGBTQ+ etiquette, including common language bloopers to avoid.

Tools for navigating difficult conversations.

Best practices for creating LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces.

Appropriate actions to take after messing up.

Techniques for self-care and sustainable allyship.

This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as the non-freaked-out parent who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child but doesn'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 readers' 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.

Weight: 544g
Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538169230
Edition number: Second Edition