| Posted 3/5/2010 at 11:21 AM by PeaceJam Bot | |
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 Straightlaced- How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
Project Created: Friday, March 05, 2010
Project Leader: Aimee V
Location: Laramie, United States
Project Goal: Our goal is to help spread understanding and acceptance in our school and help to create a more welcoming environment for students and faculty who identify as an affectional orientation that is anything other than straight.
Project Cause: The root cause of our project is simply to help teach accepting and understanding and to raise awareness in our school.
Project Plan: The plan is to host a workshop activity during our annual standardized testing workshops where we will show the video Straightlaced and then have a discussion with the participating students.
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| Posted 3/5/2010 at 11:25 AM by Carolyn D (Carolyn) | |
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 This sounds like a really thought-provoking project! Is there a trailer of Straitlaced that you can share with us? |
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| Posted 3/5/2010 at 2:04 PM by Pantea B (Pani) | |
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 Thank goodness for things like this because I still struggle with gender roles and norms today. I think that our children deserve so much more of a blue or pink option/environmental or gay or straight option/environment. Our children should feel free to just be! Please share the details of your workshop with us so we can learn of more creative ways to raise awareness and acceptance on the topic. Thanks. |
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| Posted 3/8/2010 at 9:29 AM by Mikkel Q (Mikkelquam) | |
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 This is such a great project topic; are you well connected with all the GLBT resources of Laramie, WY...I havn't spent a lot of time there but some of it was related to queer issues. I havn't yet seen Straightlaced, but I have heard the term in the past related to heterosexism. Once I facilitated a program with Rev. Elise Elrod, a transgender Baptist Clergy women from central tennessee whose major point was IYQYQR "I like you, like you are." Straightlaced, sounds like a great way to further discussion beyond sexual orientation into gender orientation. Is the film widely available, so we can recapitualate your amazing GCA globally? |
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| Posted 3/8/2010 at 4:47 PM by Kayla P (EmbersOfAnAlibi) | |
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 This is great! I think GLBT issues are often overlooked when we think of expanding peace and service to the world, but rights for those who identify as something other than straight are just as important. After all, if those people don't feel accepted and as though equal rights are accessible, then it makes it more difficult for them to strive towards peace and acceptance for others. I wish this workshop was going on in CO! :-) |
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| Posted 3/9/2010 at 9:52 AM by Jen C (jennabellec) | |
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 This sounds like a great project, not just for the awareness it creates for the LGBTQ community, but based on the sound of the title it is also discussing the overbearing and stringent gender norms and behaviors of our culture. A often unaddressed problem that contributes to making everybody, women and men, feel like they are acting wrong or not "manning up" (possibly my least favorite terms of all time). We need to break these norms and reevaluate our ideas of women and men, not based on archaic ideas of masculinity and femininity, but based instead on living a compassionate life. Down with the Patriarch!! (It felt right) |
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