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Finding LGBTQ+ Voices in the
World Language Classroom
NECTFL Series on World Languages for Social Justice
Joseph Parodi-Brown, Ed.D.
(he/him)
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Webinar Outline
• Introduction to Self and Session
• Research re: Classroom Environment
• Representation
• Entry Points
• Language and Gender
• Questions
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Introduction
• Marianapolis
Preparatory School
• Spanish teacher
• Modern Languages
department chair
• Senior Dean
• SHIELD Director
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Philosophical Framework
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Research
• National School Climate Survey
• 1999-2019
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Representation
• 19.4% positive representation;
• 17.0% negative content
• Area of opportunity for WL teachers
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Entry Points
• Thematic Units
– Family
– Government
– TV/Movies
– Literature
– Art
– Clothing/Fashion
– Sports
– Music
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Language and Gender
• A real challenge for language teachers
• Potential conflicts
• Emerging solutions and other opinions
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Language and Gender – The
Challenge
• LGB language – straightforward
• T language – straightforwardish
• NB language - ???
– Endings!
– Pronouns!
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Potential conflicts
• Language evolves (slowly)
• Linguistic colonization
• Not one standard solution
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Emerging solutions
• Arabic– Use of dual to avoid
gender specification
• French– iel
– use of median period for endings
• German– Prioritizing gender-
neutral terms
• Hebrew– Hebrew Non Binary
Project
• Italian– Use of –u
– elu
• Portuguese– elu, eli, el
• Spanish: – @, -x, -e
– le/les, une/unes, elle